Posted April 17, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

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Anti-gun activists will occasionally try to use a “keeping up with the Joneses” approach to gun laws. What I mean by that is that they’ll pretend that because we have lax gun laws compared to other Western nations, we should change that, that we should conform to what European countries have embraced.

Of course, that argument rarely works. Americans may tend to follow a herd to some degree, but those inclined to do so drank the gun control Kool-Aid a long time ago. Those of us still standing aren’t likely to consider other countries doing something as a valid reason for us to do it.

We still remember our mamas asking, “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?”

Besides, it looks like at least one of those Western nations is considering loosening up its gun laws.

Italians are seeing a change in the winds to both firearm laws toward carry and ownership, as well as greater interest culturally.

Yet, Italians have no fundamental right to bear arms at a time of turmoil and increasing debate about ordinary people being able to own guns for self-defense. Italy has three …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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