David Frum, writing in The Atlantic, has an interesting take on rights.
Only 30 percent of Americans own guns. Thus far, that minority has sufficed to block substantial federal action on guns. But a one-third minority—and especially a nonurban one-third minority—may no longer suffice to shape American culture.
Does he really want to go there? Does he really want to argue that rights are subject to a majority vote; that some minority should lose some right because they’re outnumbered?
What other minorities would he like to disenfranchise?
America has done that before. It was a bad idea — morally, legally, and constitutionally — then. It’s a bad idea now.
Especially when said minority is heavily armed.
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The Tyranny of the mob is what this republic and it’s constitution was suppose to prevent.
Tyranny by one or by a majority is still tyranny.