tomfoolery wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:45 pm
I'm re-reading this book for the third time in my life. Each time I read it, I feel a lot better. I'm starting this thread to discuss comments I have as I'm going through it this time around. I'll make different posts for each comment I have, to make it easier to respond to:
So perhaps I should follow my own advise and say that gun ownership is no different, find a mutually beneficial way, which involves telling your local government to fuck off, moving elsewhere who supports you, taking your money and tax dollars with you.
But depending of where you live, it may involve leaving your country. So taking Australia as an example, the government has effectively imposed a large cost on you if you don't like the law that you have no right to own a firearm for self-defence. Getting citizenship elsewhere, selling up and getting a job/starting a business overseas isn't practical for everyone.
Harry's point in that book, and it is a running theme throughout, is that the way out of any bad situation is not based on rights.
The way out is:
You keep mulling over in your mind how to make the situation work out for you. Eventually you will tire of coming up with scenarios and you will sort of "know" what your best options are.
At that point, you either "pay the price" or realize that you are happier with the way things are then you would be if you had to pay the price.
In your case, you have some power. Maybe you can lobby the government. Maybe you can move. Maybe you can make a different selection of weapons, etc.
But in no case do you have any innate rights. Just some things you can change and some you can't. And even the things that you do have power to change may "cost you" more than you're willing to pay.
