Guns Ownership is a Dangerous Virtue..
and we need to defend it
By Rob Morse. May 14th, 2019
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Free speech is dangerous. The right to petition our government and to own guns is dangerous. Those rights are particularly threatening to entrenched politicians and the special interest they represent. Besides being dangerous, those rights are also the safest way to organize a society. It is time we defended them, not because they are safe, but because they are virtues.
Virtues are how we do good things. Defending your community, the right to bear arms in public, is how you ensure public safety when the police aren’t there. The police are rarely there when you’re attacked by a criminal. We’ve lost much of our right to bear arms. We surrendered it to “public safety”. The right to bear arms was never meant to be convenient for politicians.
Your gun might be “safer” if it was under lock and key. It is also less useful that way. You can’t use your gun to protect yourself and your family if it takes you minutes to put to use.
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"Being disarmed is not safer for you and me. Good women with guns and good men with guns make their families safer and their communities safer. You can't be a force for good if you don't have your self-defense tools, and the training to use them."
