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Americans love the Constitution. It is the ultimate statement of righteous governance, with balances of power and brakes on tyranny. Our Founders said it will only work if we are a moral people. We all realize our morality has been slipping through our own lazy lack of attention and deliberate acts of the nation’s enemies.
I have been writing these gun-rights columns for decades, defending and explaining our rights to arms. I’ve always assumed that laws we’ve enacted and plan to enact are meaningful and matter. It seems to me, at this point, the truth of that may be fading. If the legislature has been corrupted, along with the judiciary and the executive. The quality and wording of our laws do not matter a lot. It’s said, “A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.” We’re witnessing this. The political parties, where only one is perceived as the pro-gun-rights party, look more like ...
It’s as if radicals and their “news” media cohorts have decided, “Why debate gun owners? They have all the arguments on the right side. Why not just label smear them and win like that?” This sums up the modern approach from anti-gun-rights zealots, who have a battery of nasty names, a river of feckless bills that omit criminals, and little else against the legally armed public.Don’t allow gun-hating bigots, including those running mass media, to twist your thoughts or get you using their negative terms and images. You’ll help them win the battle for our sacred rights. Write, spea...