A Brit Learns to Love the Second Amendment

By Patrick Richardson

When I found out my new son-in-law was going to be from England, I was very much afraid I was going to be confronted with the typical European, afraid of guns and secure in their superiority over those violent Americans.

But on one of his visits before they married I offered to take him out to “make a joyful noise unto the Lord” and to my surprise he said sure.

I think to his surprise, he loved it, even though owning a gun wasn’t something he’d considered.

Guns were not something that I had thought about too much, as they were not a part of my culture. Really, the only times I had seen them were in movies and video games. It had never really crossed my mind as to what it would be like being a gun owner due to the fact that I was in a country that had no rights to bear arms. I have never been against guns but the thought of regular people outside of the police legally allowed to carry a weapon seemed unnatural. I will say that the media portrayed guns to be a “great evil” and the only time you would hear …Read the Rest

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