Social liberals. We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized. Democrats To Push Extremist Gun Control Bills Today Without Even A Debate. Proper citation depends on your preferred or required style manual. The Libertarian Party Platform also stated support for "the individual right recognized by the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms." Lots of self proclaimed libertarians support politicians and policies that are not libertarian. Let’s talk more about gun control laws themselves. Libertarians believe that gun control laws are not about crime control, they are about people control. Doesn’t it only protect guns that were around at the time it was adopted? ProCon.org. Nobody thinks that the First Amendment only protects old English written with quill pens, or that the Fourth Amendment allows for seizure of objects that didn’t exist at the time the amendment was adopted. Here are the proper bibliographic citations for this page according to four style manuals (in alphabetical order): [Editor's Note: The APA citation style requires double spacing within entries. Along similar lines, understanding the wording is important when it comes to the term “well regulated”. Libertarians believe that if someone is peaceful, they should be welcome to immigrate to the United States. Libertarians are practical; we know we can’t make the world perfect. Let’s revisit Penn and Teller once more as they talk about how gun control laws failed to stop the Columbine shooting. Tighter Gun Laws Will Leave Libertarians Better-Armed Than Everybody Else In a politically polarized America, gun control is destined to be obeyed primarily by its advocates. The Green Party also wants to eliminate the gun show loophole. The planners are all alike." Liberals, who typically call for some degree of gun control, generally recognize the failure of drug prohibition to reduce drug use or lower crime rates, but somehow think that gun control will reduce violent crime and lower the murder rates. This brings us to the subject of mass shootings. The question that naturally follows is what is a militia? The Green Party believes in strict regulation on gun control. Ok, but what about the age of the Second Amendment? In this NSFW clip, Penn and Teller explain how being part of a militia is not a requirement for gun ownership. Their vision was the same as that of America’s founders — a world where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, a world of peace, harmony, opportunity, and abundance. This is so because most people who agree with Republican views on gun control consider government policy to be invasive if it interferes with the Constitutional rights of gun owners. It took Murray Rothbard (aka Mr. Libertarian) over 300 pages to do about as much when he penned For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto. These are just a few of the many instances of shootings that have occurred in gun-free zones. Many gun control advocates believe the Second Amendment restricts gun ownership to members of a militia. Lots of people call others, who have repeatedly said they are not libertarian, libertarians. Many people support it to a certain extent, with some going so far as to call for completely outlawing civilian ownership of guns. Be a Democrat if you want government control or a Republican if you want to talk about it. (Feb 2018) Summarizing a complete political and economic philosophy in a few paragraphs is a hefty task. With the repeated failures of gun control laws to prevent shootings, the sensible thing to do is to examine alternatives, such as those discussed above. 30, 2015). Of course, nobody expects them to do this, because everybody knows that they’d be easy targets if they did. “As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others. From here, an argument could be made that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment would prohibit restrictions on gun ownership for anyone not considered to be in the militia. The problem is that gun control laws don’t stop criminals from getting guns because criminals by definition don’t obey the law. ], ProCon.org. In general, Republicans are moderately pro-gun, though many are nearly as anti-gun as Democrats. Vermont, the state with the least restrictive gun laws, where no permit or license is required to purchase or carry a gun, still has state restrictions on where guns can be carried (they are prohibited in state institutions), and federal regulations are still imposed.