Would you CCW into an anti home?

[Shootin' Buddy]

Here at THR (as at TFL) there is an awful lot of spouting about the primacy of property rights. How delightfully amusing to see so many on this thread who are fully prepared to disregard said rights. My home is my castle.

Golgo-13

I do not see the contradiction you are suggesting. Quite the opposite. I see the matter of carrying a handgun on someone else's property to be perfectly consistent with the primacy of property rights. The main reason someone would be carrying, after all, is to protect their personal property, namely, themselves. Being allowed to protect your own property is key to the primacy of property rights.

The Libertarian principle, as I understand it, is that people have the right to do with their own property whatever they want so long as it does not significantly affect another person's property.

Wherever I go, I am my own property. I do not suddenly belong to someone else simply because I walk onto their land. The same thing goes for whatever I bring with me. My car is still my car even when it is being driven on someone else's road.

I may be standing in a house that someone else is king over, but I am still king over myself and my property which I brought with me, and I can do with it whatever I want (It's mine) so long as it doesn't significantly affect their property.

If I pull out a cigarette and start to smoke, I am interfering with their property (since I can not keep the smoke to myself) and so I do not just have an automatic right to smoke just because the cigarettes are mine. Likewise, If I pee in their toilet, I'm affecting their property (messes up the toilet, fills the septic, consumes water) and so I don't even have an automatic right to pee in their bathroom.

However, a gun that is concealed, and properly and safely holstered upon my own person and under my control at all times does not affect the other person's property even though it is within their house.

If they want to kick me off their property, so be it. My presence must necessarily affect their property and so I don't have an automatic right to be there. But, following this Libertarian principle at least, they do not have the right to tell me I can not carry my gun to defend my own property.

 

[H&K Fan]

An interesting question. Just got back from visiting friends we had not seen in a long time. They are to a degree good people but seriously left wing as far as politics go. As a courtesy, we did not carry inside their domicile and did not bother to remind them that since firearms are not allowed that they are totally liable for our defense should something untoward happen. So I quess my answer would have to be yes or no, depending on the circumstances. When we would visit the better half's cousin at public housing, we packed every time. It was not a good neighborhood and it did used to upset her cousin when she would ask if we were armed and we would tell her that we were.

On an unrelated to the topic note, I have noticed that both seriously right and left wing people are both blaming the 9-11-01 attacks on (drum roll, please) the Bush administration! The aforementioned friends believe it was done by the CIA and the right wing persons I know think it was done by the KGB.

 

[Blackcloud6]

I'll carry anywhere I please and can legally do so. If in someone's residence and they don't like it, they can kindly ask me to leave and I will do so without anger or regret.

 

[Camshaft]

i have

 

[ball3006]

Have done and will do....

Went to my wife's uncle's family gathering and dinner a few years ago and had my 1911 in a fanny pack. My wife's cousin's husband, who is a red neck born again 15 times type, was trying to pick a fight all day making fun of my sissy fanny pack. The uncle knew what I had as I showed it to him before was really trying hard not to split a gut over the whole deal. Uncle told him later what I had the fanny pack for and to this day he is very goody two shoes around me, even if I don't have it with me. If they don't like it they can just tell me to leave......chris3

 

[12.7x99mm]

No. because I dont go there and they dont come here. I dont really know people that dont know fire arms.