Tuesday, May 22, 2007

RKBA: A Human Right

Does a woman have a human right to resist rape or murder? Do people have a human right to resist tyranny? The United Nations Human Rights Council has said “no”—that international law recognizes no human right of self-defense. To the contrary, the Human Rights Council declares that very severe gun control—more restrictive than even the laws of New York City--is a human right.

Dave Kopel, Joanne Eisen and Paul Gallant present a history of international law dealing with the right of self defense, and conclude that it "is a widely-recognized human right which no government and no international body have the authority to abrogate."

[Via Dan Gifford]

2 comments:

Kent McManigal said...

The basic human right is the right to be unmolested. All other rights, including the right to self defense, grow from this right. Governments cannot abide this right because their only real purpose is to molest.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of molesting...

http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=24435