The Bizarro Morality of America’s Gun-Control Debate

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The Bizarro Morality of America's Gun-Control Debate

David French

The gun-control debate is a Bizarro World unto itself, one where activists, writers, and politicians — operating with an attitude of absolute moral superiority — operate according to their own "bizarro code" with three main tenets: Make up history, propose ineffective remedies, and mock proven solutions. First, the history. It is simply remarkable to see liberals flood the Internet and social media with allegations that the Second Amendment either does not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms or that — incredibly — that right is restricted to single-shot, flintlock muskets. All meaningful historical evidence points toward the conclusion that the Second Amendment merely recognized a pre-existing right to bear arms. This is plain from the text of the amendment, which protects the right of "the people," and from its historical context. Indeed, writing in 1803, St. George Tucker updated Blackstone's Commentaries to declare that the United States "may reasonably hope that the people will never cease to regard the right of keeping and bearing arms as the surest pledge of their liberty."

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