It has everything to do with property rights. NO ONE forces you to enter someone's private property. If you choose to, you do so
voluntarily and agreeing to abide by the rules set forth by the property owner. If you come onto my property and I ask you to
disarm, you will disarm or you will leave. If I require you to wear Lederhosen and yodel Broadway show tunes while
at my home you will or you will leave. My property, my rules. Don't like them, stay home it's really that simple.
I have some issue with this. It isn't just your position, it has been used many times before.
I am not "forced" to enter anyone's property, except by the way our society works we are all forced to do so.
Say I want to buy some food, yet every Walmart, Meijers, Piggly Wiggly, Walgreens etc gets afraid and has a "no guns allowed" policy. We ARE forced to buy our products somewhere, and if they all start to follow the same silly policy then I can't buy my products without violating someones rules somewhere.
It's like wanting to buy a home in a new neighborhood with kids nearby to play with your kids, or close to work, or whatever reason you desire. It is, today, impossible to buy a home in a neighborhood WITHOUT having homeowners association rules to contend with. Some you may not care about, others you may care deeply, yet if you want a new home in a nice neighborhood it is impossible to buy one without strings attached.
We are not islands unto ourselves, capable of being totally independent. We must interact with others, sometimes to a greater extent and other times to a lesser extent, yet interact we must. Shopping, schooling, recreating we must go.
What if I don't feel well, yet every medical clinic, doctors office, hospital, has a "no guns allowed" policy - which many are moving to as they get gobbled up by the huge corporate providers. Am I to assume that I am not allowed to seek medical care without giving up a civil liberty?
I think this is one of those areas where philosophically your argument is true, but where the real world intrudes and the rubber hits the road it begins to get frayed and loses its cohesion.
Regards,
Doug
PS - If you required me to follow your rule of wearing lederhosen and yodel Broadway tunes I'll get charged with at least manslaughter as you either pass away from shock or laugh yourself to death. Either way, I'm SOL.