When Is Gun Control Justifiable in a Libertarian World?

In a world in which individual communities decide upon their own laws (panarchy), no general statement about the laws of such communities can be made, and I will not address those conditions. I will address here only the better-known libertarian conditions in which a society is assumed that has adopted a non-aggression rule as fundamental. In this kind of libertarian world under which non-aggression is the rule, gun prohibition (or weapons prohibition generally) as a blanket measure may not occur; because gun ownership doesn’t constitute an aggressive action in and of itself. Furthermore, such ownership is consistent with property ownership … Continue reading When Is Gun Control Justifiable in a Libertarian World?