Pretty much a strawman in that you are talking about cars, and in what you quoted he’s talking about ATVs and motorcycles, which there are plenty of folks who think that people who own them don’t ‘need’ them. Also, you didn’t address things that have less obvious utility, such as tobacco and alcohol, that cause more deaths yet has no more (I’d argue less actually) ‘beneficial use’ to society. Or the recent opening up for recreational pot use.
No, guns are designed to sell. They are designed to shoot targets and be collected. A minority are used for hunting, and a tiny % ever kill a human.
Some groups still depend upon hunting for food, even in America.
And of course we could live without privately owned cars. Transport of goods & services would be by commercial vehicles, and there’s this thing called “Public transportation”.
However, what are the societal benefits of tobacco, which kills more than half a million Americans a year?
I would like to outlaw you using cancer or heart disease for personal defense too.
1 in 300 people dying because of gun violence is acceptable? And we really should be concentrating on other factors? This shows how far down the gun hole Americans are.
Perhaps you didn’t understand the question I asked, which wasn’t “What is the definition and/or origin of common law?”
I asked for a list of natural rights.
I know where the hell it’s from.
When people talk about “Natural Rights”, do you really believe they are just referring to that one line in the D of I?
…We have GOT to put an 18th century flintlock rifle and a semi-automatic side by side and hold the back of their heads severely DOWN while continuously repeating "Do you get it? Do you get it? DO YOU…
…We have GOT to put an *18th Printing press *and a modern computerized laser printer side by side and hold the back of their heads severely DOWN while continuously repeating "Do you get it? Do you get it? DO YOU…:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
I don’t have a list, and never claimed to have a list. I asked for a list of “natural rights” because they were brought up in this thread and I thought a thorough list of whatever it is they are might help me understand them better. Instead, what I’ve gotten so far are definitions of related concepts and a cut-out from the Declaration of Independence.
Is the militia clause the ONLY reason for the right to bear arms, or just ONE of the reasons? Bill of Rights is a brief document, authors surely didn’t find it necessary to list EVERY possible reason to bear arms. For instance, they didn’t state: “People need to shoot game for food, therefore they have the right t bear arms”…
