Sunday, August 9, 2020

Showing the Virtue of the 2nd Amendment

“My whole adult life, opponents of private gun ownership have insisted that an individual right to keep and bear arms was outmoded because it is better to rely on the police,” Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett recently remarked. “In multiple ways, in 2020 that argument has been completely demolished.”

He is correct on both counts. The argument that only the police should have guns was once standard. It has now become unfashionable, as everyone is expected to accept the premise that only criminals and rioters should have them.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/abolish-police-and-the-second-amendment-becomes-a-first-resort

The 2nd Amendment was instituted to allow us to defend ourselves against an over bearing government, however, it comes in very handy when the government fails to accomplish its legitimate purpose of defending individual rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 


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