Why Gun Debate Is Really Just Reasoning With Unreasonable People

By Tom Knighton

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Natural rights have been a concept since before the founding of our nation. The idea is simple. We, as living and breathing human beings, are endowed with certain rights because we’re living, breathing human beings. These include freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the rest.

The way someone once described natural rights to me was that these are the rights you would have if there were no governments to grant or take away “rights.” Were we living in anarchy, you’d say what you want, worship how you wish, and yes, you’d carry a gun.

Many of us, myself included, refer to these as “God-given rights,” because we’re people of faith and if God created us and we have these natural rights, then these rights were granted by God. Makes sense, right?

Not to everyone.

God is being unjustly blamed by members of the National Rifle Association to lamely justify their obsession with guns (“Carrying guns called ‘God-given’ right in Ohio,” Dispatch story, April 11). God said himself, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20: 13).

That’s all guns are, nothing but instruments by which to commit murder, whether a man in a fit of road rage fires …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms