Doesn't hold. You argue against use, not possession. If I don't spook your cows, no harm done by my ownership. This same argument can be made about a .22.
My rights do not end where yours begin. My rights end when I inflict harm. Modern thinking fails when it assumes the purpose of law is to prevent harm. If the purpose of law is to prevent your neighbor from having the ability to inflict harm, then taken to it's logical outcome, you and your neighbor will be jailed preemptively. Nor is it the purpose to ensure you have rights only to what you need; that way lies the elimination of personal property rights. As the Bard wrote, "Oh reason not the need.." Your neighbor may not "need" a flamethrower now, but at some point, you might find you wish he had.
Doesn't hold. You argue against use, not possession. If I don't spook your cows, no harm done by my ownership. This same argument can be made about a .22.
It was just an example, the point being your Rights end where they meet the Rights of other citizens or the Rights of Greater Society.
That argument is made about .22s, shoot one off on a crowded city street and find out. I merely added glamour to the .22 in question....
My rights do not end where yours begin. My rights end when I inflict harm. Modern thinking fails when it assumes the purpose of law is to prevent harm. If the purpose of law is to prevent your neighbor from having the ability to inflict harm, then taken to it's logical outcome, you and your neighbor will be jailed preemptively. Nor is it the purpose to ensure you have rights only to what you need; that way lies the elimination of personal property rights. As the Bard wrote, "Oh reason not the need.." Your neighbor may not "need" a flamethrower now, but at some point, you might find you wish he had.