The Daily Signal: How The Gun Made America Great

[basquebromance]

a fantastical argument for the 2nd amendment!

How the Gun Made America Great

 

[Sahba]

I don't believe the word 'tyranny', check against gov. overreach or anything close to this can even be found within the OP text... (I sped read) but this seems to be a largely BS interview re. the 2nd IMHO! Below is a portion of the article that goes the furthest in 'supporting' our 2nd, but falls WAY WAY short of the underlying rudiment for our 2nd being so enshrined within our constitution in the first place (a check against gov. overreach / tyranny).

First off, it’s important to know that as a philosophical matter, the right to bear arms—or to defend yourself, your property, your family—goes back farther in British law and history than the freedom of religion or freedom of speech, or anything like that. It’s one of the oldest rights.

So right away, the people who were coming here, from England at least, had that embedded in their thinking. And obviously that immediately became, as a practical matter, it became important in survival and in defending yourself from people who were already here, but also for hunting and defending yourself from the French or the Spanish or whoever else was around. So that’s the first thing.