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What We Believe: gun rights and the 2nd amendment

Posted by: Phineas on November 8, 2010 at 2:02 pm

In part five of his series on what American conservatives believe, Bill Whittle looks at the right of a free people to bear arms, how that is an essential part of our democratic republic, and pokes holes in the arguments of the gun-control lobby:

He’s missing some historical context for the Second Amendment, how it arose from a provision of the English Bill of Rights that itself was a reaction to the attempts by the Stuarts to ban firearms (for a good discussion, see Levy, Origin of the Bill of Rights, chapter six), but he’s spot on about the right to own guns being a sign of trust between citizens and their government. Suppress that right, and the bonds of trust are severely weakened as only agents of the State may bear arms while the people must rely on them for protection – and on their goodwill. The citizen, in other words, is a citizen no more, but a servant.

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

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  1. camojack says:
    November 9, 2010 at 1:14 am

    Good stuff.

  2. Jo says:
    November 9, 2010 at 8:41 am

    Now, children, the UN tells us we must lay down our arms all around the world, form a human chain that hugs Mother Earth and sing Kum Ba Ya as one united in the pursuit of peace and international relations. And remember, as our Dear Leader constantly reminds us, America is too big for our britches and must be brought down. Hand in your firearms and surrender.

  3. Tom TB says:
    November 9, 2010 at 9:01 am

    All career criminals fear the armed citizen. They know that the police are restrained by law; and they could face early retirement without a pension, or jail time. Granny with her shotgun in her own home fears no one.

  4. Valerie says:
    November 9, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    In the words of a great man, “From my cold, dead hands”…