Europe, Free Speech, And How The Second Defends The First

By Tom Knighton

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By virtue of what I do, I spend a lot of time talking about rights. In particular, our Second Amendment rights.

In a way, I’m fortunate. I live in a country where even many anti-gunners are forced to at least pretend the right exists, even if they distort the reality of what that right entails. After all, the Second Amendment is pretty clear.

Europeans, however, don’t have those protections.

That’s why most European nations have effectively banned firearm ownership. They’ve made it virtually impossible to exercise one’s right to keep and bear arms. Legally, anyway.

But that’s not the only rights under assault, and I can’t help but believe at least some of that stems from the fact that no one can resist.

You see, in England, they banned guns, but now they’re banning words.

More and more, we see people in England arrested for so-called “hate speech.” What’s more, it’s not the truly vile kind of speech that’s being considered as such. No, it’s things like calling someone born male “a man” when they say they’re not. Is doing so rude? Maybe. Should it be criminal, though?

I can’t help but wonder what is next for our nation’s closest military …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms