[John Kilduff]

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Here's what we do: carry on doing what we were doing, me having my gun, noting your objection in the log book, you whining about it.

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I think that is insufficient because my rights are still being violated. What do we do now?

I'm sorry, but you're really just saying that inaction is always the solution. There needs to be an arbitration process to resolve different views of individual rights. If the arbitration process agrees with me, then your gun must be forfeited. I'm sorry that you feel this is a violation of your rights, but that's not any worse than me feeling that my rights are being violated. The best we can hope for is the maximum number of people being optimally satisfied (or minimally dissatisfied to put it in a more depressing way).

Democracy ftw.

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As someone pointed out, you're talking about preferences, not rights. Claiming your preferences are rights doesn't make them so.

Also, the best thing is NOT necessarily for the maximum number of people to be most satisfied, or least dissatisfied. What if all Americans wanted to enslave all Canadians? Hey, we'd have a 90%+ satisfaction rate between the two countries combined that way, since Americans outnumber Canadians by almost 10-1 ! Democracy FTW!?

The best thing is for the rights of the individual to be respected and inviolate - and rights start with not being subjected to aggressions or coercions by others. That's what America was founded on; it's just too damned bad that so many people today don't know that or realize it, or care.