A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Weiser says:
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...what IS for everybody is the right to CHOOSE to be armed, or not to
be armed. That is something that NO ONE has a right to deny them, ever.

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You're contradicting yourself. Not too many days ago you asserted that
there is no "right" for gays to marry gays. You were quite clear in
stating that it was up to the state to make such decisions.

Actually, I don't think I ever said anything at all about gay marriage. I
was speaking specifically of sexual conduct.


So, how exactly is this behavior -- the carrying of guns -- a "higher"
right that NO ONE (I'm assuming, not even the state) has the right to
deny?

Because our society has made it an uninfringible right, that's how.

Either the state has the right to govern behaviors or it doesn't.
Which is it Scott?

It's both. But that doesn't mean that because our society recognizes a right
to keep and bear arms that it is also compelled to recognize a right to all
conduct, sexual or otherwise.

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