Saturday, May 26, 2018
Saturday Reading - The Natural Right of Self-Preservation and the Second Amendment
It was recently posted by Steve McCann at AmericanThinker.com:
"In the 2,500 years since Plato and Aristotle first debated the nature of rights and man, there has been a clear dichotomy on the question of self-preservation. Those who deem the state paramount and, thus, the source of the rights of man believe that any right of self-preservation can and must be limited as the state sees fit. On the other hand, those who deem certain rights, including self-preservation, natural or God-given believe that the state not only cannot limit or deny this right, but must guarantee it. There is no middle ground.
This is the tension now afoot in the United States as the American left, the heirs to the legacy of Plato, Hobbes, and Marx, are determined to eviscerate the right of self-preservation. It is not a coincidence that over the past 50 years, the left is the source of all gun legislation, regulation, and furor – using handy catchphrases such as 'commonsense gun control,' all the while denying their ultimate objective."
