This is just a rant I wrote up; after encountering the following meme on flakebook.
I want to be able to support Johnson and Weld, but they keep talking me out of it.
This meme is full of doublethink. The top two statements are in direct contradiction with the bottom four. Notice all the qualifiers.
The first two:
*The right to own guns is an absolute right
*For concealed carry and open carry.
The next one:
*Against "gun free zones" that make people less safe
Notice the qualifier "that make people less safe." He's not against gun free zones, just the ones that make people less safe. Which ones make people less safe? Good luck proving it.
*No arbitrary limits on magazine sizes.
Notice the qualifier, "arbitrary". What kind of limits on magazine sizes does he want? Non-arbitrary ones. What? You think those limits are arbitrary? Good luck proving it.
*Do not ban assault weapons out of ignorance.
Notice the qualifier, "out if ignorance." It's not that he doesn't want to ban them, it's that he doesn't want to ban them, "out of ignorance". What? You think that ban was out of ignorance? Good luck proving it!
*Limit access to guns only for criminals and mentally ill.
If access is limited, the right to own guns (keep and bear arms) is not an absolute right. No reasonably intelligent and sane person actually wants crazy people and violent criminals to be armed.
The trouble is, who decides who loses their right to keep and bear arms; because they are a criminal or crazy? The government does.
When you give them that power, they simply have to find ways to declare their political opposition to be mentally ill or criminals; in order to justify forcibly disarming them.