The Gun And How It Made America Great

By Tom Knighton

We love guns. If you’re reading Bearing Arms, you’re clearly in the camp of people who love the Second Amendment, and most who love the Second Amendment love guns in general. For me, guns are among the most amazing developments of mankind.

We also love our country. We tend to believe it’s the greatest country in the world.

Naturally, we argue that the two go hand-in-hand, an assertion our anti-gun opponents tend to reject. However, over at The Daily Signal, commentator David Harsanyi was talking about his new book and, in the process, spoke about how guns make this nation great.

Ginny Montalbano: David, I want to ask you a very broad question. Could you explain to us, how are firearms linked to America’s rights?

Harsanyi: Well, in every way imaginable almost. First off, it’s important to know that as a philosophical matter, the right to bear arms—or to defend yourself, your property, your family—goes back farther in British law and history than the freedom of religion or freedom of speech, or anything like that. It’s one of the oldest rights.

So right away, the people who were coming here, from England at least, had that embedded in their thinking. And obviously …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms