Shoq on Nostr: I’ve been reading about guns and politics in the colonial period. I am a staunch ...
I’ve been reading about guns and politics in the colonial period. I am a staunch supporter of gun control, but I’m a heretic when it comes to one particular premise for it. I cannot imagine a scenario in which the founders would have proposed the idea that the citizen militias (who won the revolution with many of their own weapons), would suddenly accept the idea that a new federal rule would limit their right to own a firearm for their own defense, or when called to militia duty to …
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