{"id":6369,"date":"2016-06-13T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/13\/deriving-gun-rights-from-the-right-to-life-short-version\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T15:33:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:33:01","slug":"deriving-gun-rights-from-the-right-to-life-short-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/13\/deriving-gun-rights-from-the-right-to-life-short-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Deriving Gun Rights From the Right to Life: Short Version"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a summary of a much longer and more carefully articulated 2009 entry<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Humans possess a natural right to life.  This right entails the right to defend one's life.  The right to defend one's life entails the right to acquire and possess the appropriate means to the defense of one's life.  Appropriate means are means commensurate with one's situation.  For example, if the criminal element with which one is likely to come into contact has at its disposal semi-automatic weapons with large capacity magazines, then such weapons figure among the appropriate means to the defense of one's life.  So given the right to life, one can easily derive the right to the means of self-defense.  Among these means will be various types of hand gun and long gun. Not all types, perhaps, but some.  In this way gun rights are derivable from the right to life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a summary of a much longer and more carefully articulated 2009 entry. Humans possess a natural right to life.  This right entails the right to defend one's life.  The right to defend one's life entails the right to acquire and possess the appropriate means to the defense of one's life.  Appropriate means are … Continue reading “Deriving Gun Rights From the Right to Life: Short Version”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-rights-and-duties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}