Because the corporation structured by the Constitution recognizes only property rights and civic obligations. Natural persons, who are presumed to govern, are: mentioned and then dismissed as innocent (presumption of probity) unless proven guilty. I suspect personal rights were overlooked because they were inconsistent with the ownership of some people as if they were cattle. I may be wrong. After all, under the law, minor children are the property of their parents (natural or adoptive). It is the children's status as property which doubtless accounts for the U.S. being the only nation which has refused to sign on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The preeminence of property rights is what makes the U.S. materialistic. The irony is that there is an assumption that ownership interest will insure property is well cared for and that assumption is being proved wrong over and over. Indeed, one political faction is committed to the proposition that children are disposable after they are born, albeit not before.
Perhaps the antidote lies in controlling advertising as well as sales; outlaw advertising of body armor and military weapons to the general public, use of the word “tactical” in advertising, sales or online provision of “first person shooter ‘games’,” etc. ---Alan
It might be noted that the courts have ruled victims of shootings with assault-style weapons can sue manufacturers who advertised those guns as anti-personnel weapons.
David Frum on gun control (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/uvalde-texas-robb-elementary-school-shooting-gun-violence/631649/) [Click] --Alan
This afternoon it clouded up and became windy. It looked like the wind was kicking up a lot of dust, and outside there was a very noticeable smell of manure. The wind was from the north, and last night we heard heavy equipment working there, in the citrus orchards on the far side of the river. Manure spreaders, maybe? We have never noticed that sort of thing before.
War Will Never Be This Bulky Again [Click] “Russia’s botched invasion has illustrated the diminishing power of heavy and expensive military power.” —Alan
Police seize weapons following Montpelier school threat
ReplyDelete^ Montpelier, Vermont (where our Statehouse is)
DeleteWhat I wanna know:
ReplyDeleteHow come only the rights of people who want to own guns count,
and not also the rights of people who want to stay alive?
Supreme Court may soon loosen gun laws as nation reels from massacres
Because the corporation structured by the Constitution recognizes only property rights and civic obligations. Natural persons, who are presumed to govern, are: mentioned and then dismissed as innocent (presumption of probity) unless proven guilty.
ReplyDeleteI suspect personal rights were overlooked because they were inconsistent with the ownership of some people as if they were cattle. I may be wrong. After all, under the law, minor children are the property of their parents (natural or adoptive).
It is the children's status as property which doubtless accounts for the U.S. being the only nation which has refused to sign on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The preeminence of property rights is what makes the U.S. materialistic. The irony is that there is an assumption that ownership interest will insure property is well cared for and that assumption is being proved wrong over and over. Indeed, one political faction is committed to the proposition that children are disposable after they are born, albeit not before.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the antidote lies in controlling advertising as well as sales; outlaw advertising of body armor and military weapons to the general public, use of the word “tactical” in advertising, sales or online provision of “first person shooter ‘games’,” etc.
---Alan
It might be noted that the courts have ruled victims of shootings with assault-style weapons can sue manufacturers who advertised those guns as anti-personnel weapons.
DeleteThe gun manufacturers and distributors are said to be in a world of hurt.
DeleteThat may be what they say
DeleteBut it's not how they play
They created the world of hurt
David Frum on gun control (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/uvalde-texas-robb-elementary-school-shooting-gun-violence/631649/) [Click]
ReplyDelete--Alan
Peter Zeihan: How Russia Will Die [Click]
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More Tory MPs call for PM to go as No 10 tries to limit Partygate report fallout [Click] Sounds to me like they ought to clean out all the Bullingdon Boys.
ReplyDelete—Alan
ReplyDeletePeople in US and UK face huge financial hit if fossil fuels lose value, study shows [Click] “Strong climate action could wipe $756bn from individuals’ pension funds and other investments in rich countries”
—-Alan
Save your breath: traditional Kyrgyz dance helps ease chronic lung disease [Click]
ReplyDelete---Alan
DeleteMillions risk losing US healthcare when Covid emergency declaration expires [Click]
ReplyDelete--Alan
This afternoon it clouded up and became windy. It looked like the wind was kicking up a lot of dust, and outside there was a very noticeable smell of manure. The wind was from the north, and last night we heard heavy equipment working there, in the citrus orchards on the far side of the river. Manure spreaders, maybe? We have never noticed that sort of thing before.
ReplyDelete---Alan
Some new technique? What was the old technique and why was it stopped?
DeleteRats Learned to Hide and Seek. Scientists Learned Way More. [Click]
ReplyDelete--Alan
War Will Never Be This Bulky Again [Click] “Russia’s botched invasion has illustrated the diminishing power of heavy and expensive military power.”
ReplyDelete—Alan
Apparently they gleaned little tactical knowledge from the American Revolutionary War.
DeleteJust as the Europeans learned little from the US Civil War. (And to be fair, the US military had forgotten those lessons.)
Delete---Alan