{"id":76018,"date":"2022-01-11T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76018"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:07:04","slug":"76018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76018","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Cracking a Code: Gun Control \u2018Brainchild of Privileged Liberals\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Writing for the\u00a0Foundation for Economic Education<\/a>, Patrick Carroll may have just cracked a code, and he leans on one of the founders of the modern Second Amendment movement\u2014the late Don Kates\u2014to conclude the gun control crusade began and is perpetuated by a privileged class disconnected from the realities of living in communities where crime is a real problem.<\/p>\n

Carroll points to a couple of paragraphs from a 1977 Kates article appearing in the Cato Institute\u2019s\u00a0Inquiry magazine<\/a>\u00a0in which Kates observed, \u201cGun prohibition is the brainchild of white middle-class liberals who are oblivious to the situation of poor and minority people living in areas where the police have given up on crime control. Such liberals weren\u2019t upset about marijuana laws, either, in the fifties when the busts were confined to the ghettos. Secure in well-policed suburbs or high-security apartments guarded by Pinkertons (whom no one proposes to disarm), the oblivious liberal derides gun ownership as \u2018an anachronism from the Old West.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet a\u00a0Gallup survey<\/a>\u00a0released in November showed that \u201c88 percent of gun owners cite crime protection as a reason they own a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

This appears especially true in minority communities, where crime is a far more pressing problem then it is in a gated community.<\/p>\n

Fox News<\/a>\u00a0has been exploring the rise in gun sales in Beverly Hills in recent months. Early Monday, Fox News interviewed Russell Stuart, owner of Beverly Hills Guns, who explained, \u201cAlthough that is a part of my living, I get no pleasure whatsoever by having a 60-, 70-year-old woman walk into my store \u2026 who looks terrified, and say, \u2018I have never liked guns. In fact, I\u2019ve even hated guns. I would have never considered buying one. But I\u2019m so afraid for my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carroll, who is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo, observed this about gun control proponents, \u201c(D)on\u2019t assume you know what\u2019s best for someone if you haven\u2019t walked a mile in their shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which brings us around to an Op-Ed in the\u00a0Wisconsin State Journal<\/a>\u00a0by Jon Donohue, a law professor at Stanford University, who raises concerns about a potential ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that, he says, \u201cmay create a federal constitutional right to carry guns outside the home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gun rights advocates and Second Amendment scholars might argue the high court wouldn\u2019t \u201ccreate\u201d a right because it already exists and is protected by the amendment, which recognizes the right \u201cto bear arms\u201d as well as keep them.<\/p>\n

Donohue is worried about a decision that would expand \u201cthe Second Amendment beyond its current scope of a right to possess a gun in the home\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

As Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and founder of the Second Amendment Foundation has frequently observed, a right limited to the confines of one\u2019s home is no right at all. Rights go with you through the front door and into the public space.<\/p>\n

A report from the\u00a0Post Millennial<\/a>\u00a0about a recent Trafalgar Group survey shows 76.8 percent of Americans \u201cregardless of political party affiliation, believe that \u2018American society and culture is in a state of decay.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen viewed by political party affiliation,\u201d the Post Millennial reported, \u201call parties had a majority that said the country is in a state of decline. 61 percent of Democrats, 85.9 percent of Republicans, and 81.8 percent of those identifying as no party or \u2018other\u2019 said American society and culture are in decline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps part of that decline involves not knowing the difference between a right and a regulated privilege. Carroll\u2019s article appears to address this dilemma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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