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7/9/2025, 7:41:18 PM
>>63959856
On a fundamental level it applies to retards, children, and even the blind. The actual implementation or societal execution is harder to codify, yes. But the 2nd amendment is an extension of your natural innate right to pursue your own existence over that of another. Every living thing in the universe has a baseline goal of continuing to exist.
When that goal isn't there, we call it depression or suicidal tendencies. The child who is scared of falling off of an elevator is subconsciously expressing this. You cannot ever compel someone to act against their own self interest. You can drag a condemned man to the gallows but he has every baseline right to try and escape. An 80 year old grandma facing down a home intruder, SS Charlemagne at the Reichstag, the British at Roarke's Drift, Kyle Rittenhouse, etc. all demonstrate that you will fight to the death, ironically, to keep existing.
Now in the societal execution of that, we can't have kids or retards running around mass firing into people. But IMO, anyone incapable of being judged of mature and sound mind should have some sort of guardian figure who does act in their best interest including self defense. I would also posit that blah blah blah social contract whatever, but the rest of society has a moral obligation to protect anyone incapable of literally wielding a firearm themselves. They, and every American (citizen) (and arguably everyone on earth but OP is only asking about the US) are afforded the right to self defense and the innate desire to continue existing and a healthy society should make sure all of its members either can do that themselves, or are looked out for as much as can be done.
On a fundamental level it applies to retards, children, and even the blind. The actual implementation or societal execution is harder to codify, yes. But the 2nd amendment is an extension of your natural innate right to pursue your own existence over that of another. Every living thing in the universe has a baseline goal of continuing to exist.
When that goal isn't there, we call it depression or suicidal tendencies. The child who is scared of falling off of an elevator is subconsciously expressing this. You cannot ever compel someone to act against their own self interest. You can drag a condemned man to the gallows but he has every baseline right to try and escape. An 80 year old grandma facing down a home intruder, SS Charlemagne at the Reichstag, the British at Roarke's Drift, Kyle Rittenhouse, etc. all demonstrate that you will fight to the death, ironically, to keep existing.
Now in the societal execution of that, we can't have kids or retards running around mass firing into people. But IMO, anyone incapable of being judged of mature and sound mind should have some sort of guardian figure who does act in their best interest including self defense. I would also posit that blah blah blah social contract whatever, but the rest of society has a moral obligation to protect anyone incapable of literally wielding a firearm themselves. They, and every American (citizen) (and arguably everyone on earth but OP is only asking about the US) are afforded the right to self defense and the innate desire to continue existing and a healthy society should make sure all of its members either can do that themselves, or are looked out for as much as can be done.
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