r/2Aradicals

If you're going to argue we can restrict Second Amendment rights because urban communities can't handle having guns in the way "rural Vermont" can, then why wouldn't it also follow we can't do the same with every right?

Warrantless searches wouldn't reduce much crime in most rural areas, but they'd do a lot in cities!

Literacy is dismal in Chicago. Why are we letting its residents vote without a literacy test?

And so on.

Rights are universal. If your area isn't mature enough to handle that liberty, then the response should be fixing your community's failings, not attacking the liberty.

This isn't a new problem. John Adams wrote that

"We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."