Common use of AR-15s for self-defense can be the secondary argument, but the primary argument should be that common bearable arms that are useful in combat are the most protected of all, as all of the historical commentary confirms.
It’s important to be precise in describing these issues. Defining the problem as simply “gun violence is the number one cause of death in children and teens” is at best vague, and at worst propagandistic and intentionally misleading.
If the gun control laws Giffords and Everytown fail, but remain in place, then it becomes clear that the true goal of gun control is unrelated to reducing crime. It’s really all about harassing law-abiding gun owners.
If we are ever going to significantly reduce America’s homicide rate, the solutions have to focus heavily — perhaps almost exclusively — on treating the violence crisis faced by young black males.
It’s dishonest to use suicide statistics to inflate “gun violence” statistics in order to pass more gun control laws precisely because only a small amount of gun control does anything to address the problem of suicide.
Politicians who continue to attack gun owners with endless anti-carry legislation are dangerously ignorant of the data that’s available. Or worse, they’re aware of the data but would rather punish a disfavored group that doesn’t vote for them.
To utterly joyless Everytowners (and others just like them), I’d like to say…calm the hell down. If someone says something you disagree with at the Thanksgiving dinner table, you’ll be just fine.
There is no shortage of gun control talking points in the American gun rights debate, and if you spend enough time on this issue, you start to see the same ones repeated again and again. That’s not an accident.
Democrats’ support for a handgun ban has now dropped to the lowest level Gallup has ever measured, 33% (it was 49% last year). Anti-gun groups are now too extreme even for their core constituency.
Justice Burger was ignorant of (or lied about) an overwhelming number of historical sources from before 1900 that confirm the Second Amendment was always understood to recognize an individual right to keep and bear arms.
