Maybe Israelis Can Now Teach the Gun Control Industry a Thing or Two
Continue reading Maybe Israelis Can Now Teach the Gun Control Industry a Thing or Two at The Truth About Guns. Powered by WPeMatico
Read Moreright to keep and bear arms
The Founders Tried Their Damnedest to Ensure Individual Gun Rights
…but even armed bears weren’t enough to head off centuries of debate over their meaning. Continue reading The Founders Tried Their Damnedest to Ensure Individual Gun Rights at The Truth About Guns. Powered by WPeMatico
Here Are the 73 Reasons Why I Carry a Handgun
I teach high school English, a profession commonly thought to number among the most touchy-feely. I love books. If that weren’t bad enough, I’m a professional classically trained singer, a first tenor. Yes, the highest…
Bergon: The Modern Right to Keep and Bear Arms is the Result of a Grammatical Error
Absolute constructions also aren’t grammatical fossils irrelevant to current English. We still use sentences today that contain free-floating absolutes to modify verbs in the same way as in the Second Amendment, through phrases such as…
Disarmament or Armed Self Defense…Americans Have Already Decided
By Rob Morse Gun-control advocates will tell you that the 23,000 firearms regulations we have today aren’t nearly enough. Those laws are simply a good start. In contrast, advocates of armed self defense will tell…
Webb: Exercising Your ‘Supposed Legal Rights’ Is Not a Good Enough Reason for Gun Ownership
At the risk of alienating everyone on both sides, I would dare suggest there might be a reasoned path forward. First, for the sake of discussion, we set aside partisan rhetoric. Second, except for what…
Michaelson: The Right to Own a Gun is a Racist, Right Wing Lie
Since [Heller], the Second Amendment has become gospel — literally. In a recently filed amicus brief, Texas Governor Greg Abbott argued that “Texans have long cherished the right that was confirmed by the Second Amendment, but…
It’s Time to Acknowledge the Association of Guns With Violence
In the Politics, Aristotle explains how “heavily armed men” (hoplites) form the foundation of political order. Their violent coercion, even in the form of bloodless potency, overrides both the wealth of shiftless plutocrats and the…
A Law Professor Rewrites the Second Amendment…And Eliminates All Those Pesky Guns
The Second Amendment’s idiosyncratic and anachronistic focus on militias and “arms” degrades the concept of self-defense. The right to safeguard one’s life should not be conflated with or reduced to the right to use a…
A Liberal Weighs the Costs and Benefits of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
As a young man I regarded the second amendment as the founders’ biggest blunder. As we head into 2022, my position has flipped — I now believe history may well come to regard it as…