Thoughts from my friend Sarai Eilat.
If you are known by the company you keep, which group would YOU rather associate with?
Every time you turn around, some prominent lefty is belching out reasons they think gun rights need to be curtailed.
Because the idea of ‘shall not be infringed’ is pretty tough for them to grapple with.
And they aren’t even afraid to use tears or children as props to make their case. (They HAVE to rely on emotion… because the logic of their claims is deeply flawed.)
Historically, there are major figures who have lined up on each side of the issue. And revisiting that may actually be a far more helpful measurement of the TRUE morality of gun control than any raging Minority Speaker, or weepy late-night comic’s TV monologue.
Do you want to watch a gun-grabber tie himself into knots? Ask this what-if question.
Imagine it’s 1940’s Germany, and they happen to intercept a shipment of weapons — handguns, rifles, whatever — that would be key in fully arming an uprising in one of Hitler’s Jewish Ghettos.
Knowing history as you do now… do you let the Jewish civilians arm themselves?
The true moral answer should be obvious.
And if it was the moral answer there, the burden of proof is on the gun-grabbers to explain why it is moral for Jews in Hitler’s ghettos to have means of self-defense, but NOT moral for free citizens elsewhere to have the same protection.
Of course I side with the upper row. It is moral for men of all walks to be able to defend themselves. Criminals, animals, and tyranny. All are threats.