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A Counterbalance to the False Narratives About Gun Ownership
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Mark A. Taff
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The data is in: Americans are flocking to gun stores in unprecedented numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The spike has left many gun control advocates struggling to find a motive other than pure, irrational panic. After all, the common narrative goes, “the good guy with a gun” is a myth and it’s very rare that any law-abiding Americans have to defend themselves at gunpoint.
Enter The Heritage Foundation’s new Defensive Gun Use Database to help make sense of why so many Americans are now racing to exercise their Second Amendment rights, often for the first time. |
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"The government cannot always be there to protect your individual rights and liberties from criminals."
This canard must be discarded. It is counter-productive. It posits a counterfeit 'requirement' that citizens must rely on government instead of themselves, yet it is repeated by 2A proponents ad infinitum as a polemical sop to ameliorate the uninitiated's perception of purported 'extremism.'
It is destructive to Americans' understanding of the principles of liberty. The Supreme Court has consistently held that the police have no responsibility to protect individual citizens.
Government is established to protect its sovereignty and our unalienable rights from usurpation. When it expands that power, it invariably diminishes our freedom. |
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| "Some people think that the Second Amendment is an outdated relic of an earlier time. Doubtless some also think that constitutional protections of other rights are outdated relics of earlier times. We The People own those rights regardless, unless and until We The People repeal them. For those who believe it to be outdated, the Second Amendment provides a good test of whether their allegiance is really to the Constitution of the United States, or only to their preferences in public policies and audiences. The Constitution is law, not vague aspirations, and we are obligated to protect, defend, and apply it. If the Second Amendment were truly an outdated relic, the Constitution provides a method for repeal. The Constitution does not furnish the federal courts with an eraser." --9th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, dissenting opinion in which the court refused to rehear the case while citing deeply flawed anti-Second Amendment nonsense (Nordyke v. King; opinion filed April 5, 2004) |
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