“Repeal all weapon laws and restore liberty.
That is all there is to it.
Everything else regarding ownership and use of weapons (as with ownership and use of ANY object) must be viewed in light of understanding our right to defend ourselves and others, and our obligation to exercise those rights without violating the rights of others.
Perhaps the ownership and use of weapons, especially firearms, offers more potential for misuse than the ownership of, say, food or clothing or a copier or phone. But there are many other things which we can own which present significant potential for misuse. Not just knives, not just baseball bats. And not just cans of spray paint or drugs, for that matter. I am not sure if there is anything which humans can own which cannot be used, in some way, against someone in an initiation of force. That is, aggression.
But we as a society – and government, as our would-be master – handle firearms differently than these other things. (Admittedly, more and more governments are adding such things as knives to this short list of “too dangerous to allow certain people to have.”)
I cannot see, as a lover of liberty, any real moral justification for doing so. Excuses? Oh, my, yes. But not justification. If someone misuses, abuses, something and uses it to attack us (or someone else), our right to defend ourselves justifies taking that object away from them, at least long enough to end their threat to us.
But we cannot do that just because we think that someone might use and misuse that to initiate force against us. Or because someone else did use that same object against another person.
So the real reason for governments and nannies (controllers and would-be controls – the enemies of liberty – to push? Precisely that – control. These people, these groups, wish to control all people – to dominate us. They know that weapons of self-defense are a defense against that attempt to control, that lust to dominate us. And to that end, they push fear – fear of guns and other weapons. Fear of those who have them.” – Nathan Barton, at The Price of Liberty blog