So when's the last time anyone here was armed attending a major sporting event or Death Metal concert? If I ever go to a Death Metal concert, it will be at gunpoint; Does that count? Just to clarify, the band that was playing is called "Eagles of Death Metal" but they are certainly not ac...

It's threads like this that don't make people smarter, but instead just teaches them to stop asking questions on the internet.

These links are probably already known by you and don't appear altogether relevant or supportive of your thesis (particularly the ncjrs study which is about the assault weapon ban), but they have bibliographies (in back for the ncjrs study, in the footnotes for the harvard study) that may provide ot...

I've heard this argument before as well, only too often: Even my own Representative stated that this is the USA and horrific genocides of other countries could NEVER happen here, so we need not fear gun control or registration. How quickly do people forget that the United States of America, like eve...

In May, 2011, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that people do not have the right to reasonable resist unlawful entry by police: http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/pdf/05121101shd.pdf We hold that there is no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers. Although that...

I didn't see a link to the harvard article being quoted (maybe I just missed it), but I think this is the article:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

Nevermind, I think I found a ballpark answer. From my second edition of John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime" circa 1998, he estimates between 75 and 86 million (page 1, chaper 1.... yeah I'm an idiot for not looking here sooner) in the US own guns. That was in 1998, but that's around 27% or...

Does anyone know where an actual gun ownership per capita statistic for different countries would be? Everywhere I look is the same statistic being quoted from a Washington Post article ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/15/what-makes-americas-gun-culture-totally...

Maybe it's time America had a conversation about eliminating the most prolific source of violence in our lives: the worship of football? As is probably already very evident, I'm actually not at opposed as most people here are to certain restrictions. I'm mostly just worried about acting too quickly ...

Now let's look at the 2nd amendment: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/second_amendment A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. According to the amendment, 'the people' ha...

And furthermore, any rhetoric from Jesse Jackson, or the NRA, or the United Nations, that describes what is or is not a 'human right' or 'god-given right' is just that, rhetoric. It may convince me that my government should recognize this as a right, but it does not determine what is or is not a rig...

So ferric021 seems to have it pinpointed by saying that a right is whatever an individual deems it to be Just to clarify, that is my position on what jshuberg's definition of a right truly is, but I disagree with this definition. To me this seems like a trivial definition which, in the end, doesn't...

I love .22 WMR: cheap, fun, easy, and louder than .22 LR.

I'm not in favor of either because my wallet is already heavily burdened with id's and licenses for hunting, boating, atv, carry, visa, TWIC card, driving car, truck, motorcycle, and the list goes on. Another thing that this always comes down to in the end, is that every protection is a freedom tak...

Sorry OP ferric021 for side-tracking your issue. I am enjoying the discussion, and a debate between rights/priviledges is actually what made me post the question initially. I still believe that according to jshuberg's definition of a right, what is deemed a 'right' is a personal choice made by him....