A quick question for progressives: if enforcing the equal-rights of black-Americans in the South was worth the resultant disorder of riots and lynchings, why isn't protecting the right-to-bear-arms worth the resultant disorder of gun-crimes and public-shootings? Why defend liberal value of equality in the first case and conservative value of order in the second? Why value equal treatment among citizens but not between equal power between citizens and those in power? Why the limited commitment to equality among self-professed egalitarians?
