So many power grabs now get packed into an international human rights mold: here come claims that IHR requires laws aimed at restricting private access to guns in the U.S. [Leila Nadya Sadat and Madaline George on Harris Institute initiative at Washington U. Law; Patricia Illingworth; Jeremiah Ho] I wrote about the proliferation of international human rights claims in my 2011 book Schools for Misrule, and this site has previously covered efforts to invoke international human rights law against such practices as cultural appropriation, financial privacy and national fiscal austerity, gender-stereotypical speech, liberalization of labor markets, making city dwellers pay for water, failure to return land to long-displaced Indian tribes, disconnecting people from Internet service, lack of hate speech laws (and more and also see), non-recognition of a right to health care, Stand Your Ground rules on self-defense, videogames about war and depiction of rights violations in popular entertainment, evicting homeless encampments, “atrocity speech,” lack of affordable-housing programs, factory livestock farming, and foundling baby boxes. On the gun angle, see also the controversy over the small arms treaty.
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Enshrine in the Constitution the Human Right of Self-Defense. I never thought that would be necessary, but …
Almost entirely far-Left causes. How about that.
What about bits of metal? Shouldn’t everybody get rid of forging metal and all its relatives? After all, many human rights violations in history took place using bits of sharpened metal…
Cecil: And don’t forget sticks and stones. These can be sharpened, or simply used as blunt objects to crush skulls – and were often used to violate human rights in the hundreds of thousands of years of pre-history, as well as in the first millenia of recorded history.
What the progressives and other socialists will never consider is restricting the real source of human rights violations: governments.
And rocks, and pointy sticks, and heavy sticks and…