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HomeGuy Home@Guy.com wrote:


The supreme court has established that all rights are NOT absolute. You
have a right to free speech, but you will be punished for yelling fire
in a crowded theater.

Your right to own a gun, and by extension to point it at someone and
pull the trigger and kill them ranks lower than their right to life (ie
- to not be killed by you and your gun).

Which is reflected in both the murder and stand your ground laws. It is
a balancing of rights so you have a right to punch someone's ticket
before they punch yours as long as their is an immediate threat. But you
don't have a right to shoot your gun at random people.

It's an interesting concept: Your constitutional right to "bear arms"
does not mean you have a right to use them.
Of course it does, but the non-immediate threat being the arms
equivalent of fire and crowded theatre. As you mentioned there are few
if any absolute rights.
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