Comment 32695

By A Smith (anonymous) | Posted August 08, 2009 at 00:42:40

Jason >> Finally, I think the neighbour across the road and I are going to go in on a rifle range. We'll have targets on one side of the street and the shooting range from the other.

That's pretty funny, although, I would not condone such behaviour, since all the activities you mention directly interfere with the property rights of your neighbours. However, if you could keep excessive sounds, fumes, toxins and bullets from moving across their land, then that would be a different story, as they would have no reason to claim injury because of your behaviour.

That is the proper role of government, protecting each citizens personal property from attack by others, whether by malice or just selfishness. It is not the role of government to limit the rights of property owners, simply because certain groups of people don't like how they are using their land. In that case, the correct remedy is to purchase the property in question, in which case the new owner can do whatever he/she wants with it.

Government is not a tool that should be used to get what two parties couldn't come up with by mutual agreement. In this case, government becomes a weapon of attack, rather than a defender of rights. Do you see the difference?

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