From Carnal Nation (link may be NSFW) comes a good article on why their community should be for gun rights.
“We fight long and hard against those who would have us believe in a mythical 1950s America free of pornography and noisy radicals. They say that reading erotica or the Anarchist Cookbook or the theory of evolution will somehow corrupt otherwise normal, law abiding citizens and turn them into rapists or terrorists. They say that being critical of an unpopular war is akin to treason. They say the framers never heard of Internet porn or cable TV as if this somehow makes the taking of a right okay.
The arguments are the same—it’s no different to assume that a consenting adult watching legal pornography will suddenly become a rapist than it is to assume that a legal gun owner will suddenly become a murderer. There have always been murderers and rapists and restricting speech or banning guns won’t change that.
When the government seeks to regulate what consenting adults can do in their own bedrooms we cry foul. Yet we fail to see that seeking to regulate what consenting adults do in their leisure time with legally-owned guns is just as insidious.
Similar parallels—perhaps even closer—can be drawn with the issue of abortion rights. The anti-gun forces who paint gun owners as murderers and the anti-choice forces who paint the the pro-choice community as baby-killers use the very same brush.
To interpret the Bill of Rights one way for speech, abortion, privacy and the right to own a vibrator but then suddenly want a strict constructionist view of the Second Amendment is hypocritical.“
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