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Originally Posted by kerowo
Add in the suicide deaths with guns and the accidental deaths of children and it becomes a significant number. Although if someone told me my hobby was killing people unnecessarily I don't think the number would have to be too high before I'd give it up, but that's me...
How do suicides and accidental deaths have anything to do with mass shootings, the topic of the post you were replying to here?
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Originally Posted by kerowo
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Originally Posted by master3004
The only reason you have private property is because someone has granted you the ability to do so. Those same people also get to decide whether you can own guns on said property.
You don't get it both ways. If you want somewhere to own private property that was not granted to you by a government, then you have to find somewhere that doesn't have a government. Without the government existing YOU would not have private property within these borders.
I am not an advocate of no government. I do want to drastically reduce the size and power government. Governments primary function should be to protect individual rights and settle disputes.
You have an underlying assumption that government grants property rights. I would argue that property rights exist by default, and government's role should be to protect them from being violated by others. It is not acceptable for others to dictate what an individual can do on their own property as long as others rights are not being violated. Owning guns on one's property does not violate others' rights. Smoking marijuana on one's property does not violate others' rights. Having consensual sex with a transsexual prostitute on one's property does not violate others' rights. Prohibiting these types of activities is an abuse of government power.