Reply #87: Guess we'll have to agree to disagree

[Liberal Classic]

Obviously, the Patriot Act is also supposedly intended to protect freedom -- the freedom that people would not have if the terrorists won. Just as the "RKBA" is also supposedly intended to protect security -- the security that people would not have if they could not defend against criminals. Again, not only is the protection in both cases illusory, both measures are in fact inimical to those stated aims because of the extent to which the first denies freedom in the cause of protecting freedom, and the second diminishes security in the cause of enhancing security.

I guess we've reached the point where we have to agree to disagree.

I would say that 'gun control' is supposedly intended to protect security at the expense of liberty, but has questionable effectiveness and negative unintended consequences.