What Unrest In Africa Tells Us About The Second Amendment

By Tom Knighton

I’m going to tell you something about the world that you probably already know, but folks on the progressive side of the aisle seem pathologically incapable of comprehending. There are some places in this world that are absolute hellholes. When it was claimed that President Trump called some of these places something that was less than pleasant, the left got up in arms, but he was right.

They’re not good places. There’s a reason why people in this countries want to come to the United States, after all.

Part of the reason they want to come here, even if they don’t realize it, is that we have a Second Amendment, which prevents stuff like this from happening here:

The pot-holed streets of Bangui’s Muslim quarter are lined with stalls plying their trade to a cacophony of honking horns and cars backfiring — a comforting image of bustling life in Central African Republic’s capital.

But beneath this veneer of normalcy, many traders in the flashpoint district of PK5 are on edge.

Last month, they agreed as one to stop paying protection money demanded by the numerous “self-defence” militias set up to protect the city’s Muslim minority.

Their defiance prompted an angry response from a …Read the Rest

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