PracticalGunControlPart4 <== PDF version Having reviewed the
cultural and historical aspects of gun control, we turn now in
this edition to the moral aspect. 3 The Moral Aspect In
considering the moral aspect of citizen disarmament, commonly
called “gun control”, it is helpful to return once again to
English jurist William Blackstone : In these several articles
consist the rights, or, as they are frequently termed, the
liberties of Englishmen: liberties, more generally talked of
than thoroughly understood; and yet highly necessary to be
perfectly known and considered by every man of rank or property,
lest his ignorance of the points whereon they are founded should
hurry him into faction and licentiousness on the one hand, or a
pusillanimous indifference and criminal submission on the other.
And we have seen that these rights consist, primarily, in the
free enjoyment of personal security, of personal liberty, and of
private property. So long as these remain inviolate, the subject
is perfectly free; for every s