VIDEO: David Harsanyi First Freedom Event
David Harsanyi, author of the book, “First Freedom: A Ride Through America’s Enduring History with the Gun” sat down with Second Amendment scholar David Kopel to discuss guns and gun rights in America. Below is the video.
What if there were serious gun controls?
After the Las Vegas murders, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) urged Congress to “take a stand against gun violence by passing common-sense gun safety laws.” On Monday, after the mass murder in Texas, he wrote, “A simple idea: Anyone convicted of domestic abuse should see their rights under the 2nd Amendment severely curtailed.” On Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) announced that he and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) are writing a bill “to prevent anyone convicted of domestic violence — be it in criminal or military court — from buying a gun.
How I came to stop fearing guns and embrace the Second Amendment
I used to hate guns, even giving money to anti-gun organizations. Today I am a life member of the National Rife Association.
The racist origin of gun control laws
by Dave Kopel and Joseph Greenlee Guns have historically protected Americans from white supremacists, just as gun control has historically protected white supremacists from the Americans they terrorize. One month after the Confederate surrender in 1865, Frederick Douglass urged federal action to stop state and local infringement of the right to arms. Until this was […]
