Sunday, June 9, 2013

Right to bear arms

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

If all men are created equal with the same rights...
... and Americans (A) have the right to bear arms (A=C),
... and since Filipinos (B) are not animals nor plants but belong to the group called "men" (A=B),
then we Filipinos have also the right to bear arms (B=C)!

Simply put, since A=B and A=C, then B=C.

Furthermore, since the Philippine Constitution is based from the American, then whatever right is enshrined in the former must, by logic, be also inherent in the latter.
Otherwise, the premise of equality will not hold, and A will not be equal B.