It is a phrase that’s being spoken with increasing frequency yet, funny thing, it is a phrase which is rarely followed up with anything intelligent.
It’s My Right.
I was checking up on some facts regarding US gun laws, also the way firearm-enthusiasts fear those laws may be changed preventing them from exerting their ‘Second Amendment Right, as legal US citizens’.
It’s not just these idiots playing their Trump-card, either, this ambitious sense of entitlement is everywhere across our modern world; few years’ back, if you’ll recall, it was ‘every Kiwi’s right to own their own home’, and right, how is that working out for ‘every Kiwi’?
Here’s a little-known fact, brought to light by a high-profile US court-case at the time: as at November 1st, 2015 (bear in mind Trump didn’t come into power until January 2017), there are just five states of the US which prohibit licensed gun-owners from carrying their handguns in public places (Concealed Carry); more insane still, there are thirty–one states in which the carrying of a handgun is legal, without a firearms licence or permit (CCW), although in some cases said gun must be unloaded.
Back home now: thank you, Jacinda, yes, you’re right, it is everybody’s right to worship whatever religion they choose; it is furthermore their right to dress in whatever attire they feel is gender-appropriate and all while speaking freely on a topic of their choosing (realistically though transgender males are always going to face discrimination, just as Devil-worship will always be vilified and let’s not forget, in New Zealand, hate-speech is a crime so, you know, be careful what you say, and do).
Seems that across most places in the USA a citizen has the right to legally Carry a Concealed Weapon; seemingly this would be for protection, presumably from like-minded US citizens big on exerting their Second Amendment Right.
‘Every child in New Zealand has the right to grow up safe and free from abuse, has the right to live in a warm dry home, has the right to adequate nourishment, with free healthcare and the right to free education’; gosh, so many projected rights yet no admission of wrong.
Too right.
Article by Tim Walker
Edited by Shelby Wright
Photography by Kinduno Wong