The Principle in Practice Any theory that propounds an opposition between the logical and the empirical, represents a failure to grasp the nature of logic and its role in human cognition. Man's knowledge is not acquired by logic apart from experience or by experience apart from logic, but by the application of logic to experience.
All truths are the product of a logical identification of the facts of experience.
Man's rights sound nice and all, but we have to be pragmatic and impose some controls for the sake of all of us. Subjective desires that they believe they can just insert into the context of a free America and have no effects upon that context. They believe that you can modify one of the pillars of an industrial society, an armed populace, and have no effect other than a reduction in suicides, accidents and murders. Gun control results in threatened women being murdered while they await government approval to possess the means of defending their lives. Women like Bonnie Elmasri who was murdered along with her two sons while waiting the two days required in Wisconsin for a handgun.