How is the freedom to tote guns love?
It is love in that it implies that every citizen has the right to take on the associated responsibility if they choose to. It is love in that it is better aligned with the truth, which is that the power to kill, to inflict mortal wounds, lies in all of us regardless of guns, and it is our goodness and self-control that keeps us from using it indiscriminantly. Aligning with the truth brings greater flow and expansion of energies, which is love.
It is love in that it asserts the sovereignty of the individual; it respects the commonsense notion that we are all masters of ourselves if we so choose. It rejects the confused notion that one class of us is in a position to rule over another by force.
When we restrict gun ownership, we’re effectively saying that the ordinary citizenry is not responsible enough to own guns, but that the government is. That the state is more responsible than the individual. Yet, the state is made up of individuals. So how can this be? Quite simply, it can’t.