Even a racist and conspiracist has rights

The man is a loon and his views are disgusting, But does being anti anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist mean you should lose your rights to, say, a gun:

A man declared a white supremacist by police and ruled a possible risk to public safety by a psychiatrist has been granted the right to possess a handgun.


Darryl Potts, who believes there is a Jewish conspiracy to destroy other races, had his AB firearms and probationary pistol licences revoked by police after he expressed "white supremacy views" to officers during an incident involving domestic violence. But, in a landmark case, the Administrative Decisions Tribunal has ruled that, even though Mr Potts might hold extreme and offensive views, that does not mean he is mentally impaired and he is legally entitled to a firearm licence.

The decision was at odds with the opinion of police, the Firearms Registry and a psychiatrist's clinical assessment that Mr Potts had the potential "to put public safety at risk".

Mr Potts, an elevator technician at Federal Parliament, pursued the case because he believed having a revoked firearm licence could affect his security clearance to work in government buildings.

There was some alleged "domestic" incident two years ago that worries me, but I tend to agree with the reasoning of ADT member Peter Molony:

Mr Potts is an intelligent, manipulative and calculating man. The fact that he holds political and religious views and opinions that are offensive is not, in my opinion, sufficient to find that the public interest requires that he no longer hold a firearms licence… To do so would be to embark on a slippery slope ... to totalitarianism.