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Gregory Gibson’s son was killed in 1992 during a shooting at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Mass. In 2014, after decades of work with gun violence prevention groups, Mr. Gibson bought a 9-millimeter Sig Sauer P320 and began learning to shoot. In the essay “A Gun Killed My Son. So Why Do I Want to Own One?” Mr. Gibson walks readers down his path to becoming a gun owner and his quest for clarity in the debate around guns in America. |
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I sympathize with Mr. Gibson, but by my lights he's too 'reasonable' in his exchanges with obviously misguided people (undoubtedly Democrats).
Fundamental rights are unalienable. Bearing arms is a fundamental right.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Some old bald dead white guy who's a heckuvalot smarter than Michael Bloomberg or Shannon Watts
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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