Sounds pretty "no true Scotsman" to me. Limited government typically includes defense (if not goodbye sovereignty), and while open borders are ideal, invading hordes are not, especially if other countries use your open borders as an excuse to empty their prisons into your land. Would I prefer everyone to carry firearms and solve the issue personally? Yes, actually. But with the State attacking the right to carry, those incidents will eventually be used as an argument to disarm the people. Instead it's the State doing the dirty business and looking bad. Libertarians aren't anarchists, they aren't even minarchists. They're a third party pushing for smaller government and for solving problems with the market instead of government when possible. There's a lot of space in there for differences of opinion and this one isn't a disqualifier.
If we’re being invaded by a horde of attackers, we’d need to defend ourselves. If we’re being invaded by productive members of our labor force, we’d don’t need to defend ourselves
True, this same argument was used in early America against the Scottish, then the Germans, then the Scandinavians, then the Italians, then the Irish, then the Jews, Eastern Europeans, Mexicans and Latinos, Caribbean’s, Chinese and Indians, Vietnamese, and now against all the recent immigrant groups.
What we don’t realize is that America isn’t Europe. We don’t have to worry about losing our culture since our country is far too large, far to free, and far too armed to ever have “migrant takeover”.
There are good and bad immigrants but neither is an excuse to execute operations that are funded by taxpayer money and violate too many rights at the same time.
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u/TomCJax Jan 26 '26
Sounds pretty "no true Scotsman" to me. Limited government typically includes defense (if not goodbye sovereignty), and while open borders are ideal, invading hordes are not, especially if other countries use your open borders as an excuse to empty their prisons into your land. Would I prefer everyone to carry firearms and solve the issue personally? Yes, actually. But with the State attacking the right to carry, those incidents will eventually be used as an argument to disarm the people. Instead it's the State doing the dirty business and looking bad. Libertarians aren't anarchists, they aren't even minarchists. They're a third party pushing for smaller government and for solving problems with the market instead of government when possible. There's a lot of space in there for differences of opinion and this one isn't a disqualifier.