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The only contradiction is with your assumptions. Only on their own property. The difference being that the owner of that portion of the street would have a legitimate right for doing so, and you would also have the legitimate right to build your own street right next to it to permit...

I threw that out back in posts #113 and 123. Social Contract theory is old and busted, and what's more, it's at the heart of every argument for increased gun control. A person has the right to defend and peacefully control what's theirs no matter how those around them feel about it. You may...

I've been discussing the rights of the property owner this entire time. The government's law is not relevant to the question of what's good or bad in principle, as it is derived from fiat rather than from a systematic application of rights. The employers who prohibit firearms on their property...

No, I get that. I also get that the person willing to hurt you to get what he wants is using the exact same thought process. I don't care if it's wrong. I'm going to do it anyway. But why do you not respect their rights until you get fired? Why not just maintain your disregard for their rights...

It's not a violation if the guest has to agree to forgo privacy as condition of admittance. The guest or employee isn't a serf. They aren't forced to be there in the first place, let alone continue coming back on a regular basis. Yes, it is. If your employer sets a rule as a condition of...

That is a risk explicitly agreed to by entering a place with an explicit prohibition on firearms.

Then a person possessing male anatomy entering a room designated for females only would not be intruding because his anatomy is concealed, right? A property owner says that no persons carrying guns are permitted, and someone carrying a gun enters the property, that is a perfect example of an...

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you find it impossible to adhere to a property owner's rules? Is that the disconnection you're detecting between philosophy and reality? The philosophy describes something that cannot happen?

If you're willing to accept getting fired because you violated company policy, why take the job (or stay there) in the first place? Instead of violating someone's private property and getting fired for bringing a gun to work, why not just work somewhere else that permits it? Is it going to be...

If the office rule somehow violated the morality of private property, yes. But as I've laid out earlier, setting rules for peaceful behavior wouldn't do that. Are the employees there out of a sense of charity? No, they're there out of a motivation for profit as well. The nature of the...

For those who carry to work where it's prohibited (whether left in the car, or concealed on person or in a purse/briefcase/box): If agreeing to a search on demand became a condition of employment... that is, if getting caught were a certainty... if you could no longer get away with breaking the...

I said charity, not welfare. It's there in the section of text you quoted. You didn't specify "handouts" as referring only to state welfare, so I specified it in my response.

Because all rights are property rights. I don't think it's realistic to try to come up with agreed upon solutions to all possible questions before they arise. For those stipulations stated explicitly, hold to them as precisely as possible. And as I hinted at before, any questions that arise...

http://freedom.robocourt.com/ I highly recommend checking out the link above. It has a tool that lets you "comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres" based on a study by Mercatus. You can...

What's legal or illegal has nothing to do with what is right or wrong. Anyone here looking at the state of gun control laws in the US and around the world should readily understand that. 1. If you don't have a right to be there, you don't necessarily have a "right to life" while you're...

A store is no different from a home or clubhouse when it comes to the rights of the owner. People have a right to exclude others from their property for whatever reason, whether it's gun-related or not, whether most of us find it distasteful or ignorant or not. In the question of how to...

The "right to life" doesn't include an obligation on anyone else's part to sustain you, nor is does it imply a right to infringe on the rights of another person. If the rabbit was caught running around in the unowned wilderness, whoever caught it owns it. The conflict is logically settled, as...

In this scenario you've created where I'm unable to get a suitable job anywhere else in the world, and unable to survive via self-employment, then yes, I would accept charity. But I see homeless people getting paid to hold signs on the sidewalk. I don't think your scenario is very realistic, and...

I was nervous at first that someone would see it and wig-out. Didn't want the hassle of dealing with panicky ninnies. I carried IWB. I quickly learned no one is paying attention. I started open carrying most of the time. Still very few people paying attention. If anyone has been alarmed by it...

Then I kick myself for getting into a situation where I have only one option for employment and have become wholly dependent on it. But in no way does it give me any right to use that property in a manner that violates the wishes of its owner. Just because I may be in a tough situation does not...