I'd start carrying. If the cops take my guns and jail me for it, I'll just buy a new one once I get out. They have conveniently created a huge market of illegal guns with their imported criminal class.
All of Europe is victimized by these attacks because we allowed ourselves to be disarmed in the era post-WW2. Before that the idea of a man carrying a weapon for his own defense was not alien to us.
Before that the idea of a man carrying a weapon for his own defense was not alien to us.
I'm not a historian, but I'm guessing that the reason the founding fathers had to declare the second amendment a right is that the Old World didn't allow people below a certain class to carry weapons for their own defense.
Protestant citizens have the right to possess arms for their defense, "suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law"
When they wrote the 2A it wasn't pulled out of thin air, or invented by American conditions. It was the rights of free Englishmen passed on not just from the Bill of Rights and Magna Carta, but common law as well; enshrined in a manner that guaranteed it better than the arbitrary legislation of the crown.
I'd start carrying. If the cops take my guns and jail me for it, I'll just buy a new one once I get out. They have conveniently created a huge market of illegal guns with their imported criminal class.
All of Europe is victimized by these attacks because we allowed ourselves to be disarmed in the era post-WW2. Before that the idea of a man carrying a weapon for his own defense was not alien to us.
I'm not a historian, but I'm guessing that the reason the founding fathers had to declare the second amendment a right is that the Old World didn't allow people below a certain class to carry weapons for their own defense.
English bill of rights 1689
When they wrote the 2A it wasn't pulled out of thin air, or invented by American conditions. It was the rights of free Englishmen passed on not just from the Bill of Rights and Magna Carta, but common law as well; enshrined in a manner that guaranteed it better than the arbitrary legislation of the crown.