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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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| "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? [...] The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (Chapter 1 "Arrest") |
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