Books / LeftArgumentForGunRights

Disclaimer: The author does well, considering his audience, and makes many good points, but fails miserably when he emptily asserts that "no right is 'God-given' or 'natural'", although what is really meant, as shown by the following paragraphs, is that (he asserts) rights will always be infringed (a fundamental right vs. power disconnect), and brings up the old canard of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater as a limitation on free speech when, really, it is, as Murray Rothbard points out, instead about an infringement of property rights for theatergoers and owner.

In fact, his answer to his own question, "So, the right to own guns is a fundamental political right, and guns don’t cause psychosis-driven mass shootings, therefore no regulations, right?" is so weak as to practically be a mere sop to leftist readers (most of whom, if they got that far, would be frothing at the mouth at this point), sort of a "Oh, but I have a black friend!" disclaimer after a discourse on the superiority of the Aryan race, as if that would negate any of the foregoing.

Thus, with those failures, this is not a voluntaryist paper per se, but in the vein of being a leftist's arguments (and insight) against many of, if not all of, the errors of the left, it is a document that may be helpful for voluntaryists.

The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights

The article is broken into sections as follows:

last edited 2013-02-11 03:25:52 by DavidRobins