Let's Open The ''Gun-Control'' Playbook

Politics—especially when individual liberty is at stake—are an endless struggle. Lazy, ideological minds return bad ideas to us over and over again. The falsehoods and logical fallacies from 'gun-control' marketers are repackaged and sold again. For short periods of time, one might reasonably say that the advocates of freedom have "won." But such victories can only be assured if our efforts are constantly renewed.

With this in mind, it is worth refreshing our acquaintance with the 10 biggest logical fallacies in the 'gun-control' groups' playbook—stupefyingly counterproductive ideas that are foisted upon us year after year.

Rule 1:

Pretend there is no constitutional right to keep and bear arms
This dog will not hunt. American history is replete with references to private gun ownership. And there are plenty of examples prior to the American Revolution, when threats to this right were treated as just cause for rebellion.

Before, during and after the ratification of the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment was treated as an individual right by everyone who referenced it. When, more than 150 years later, questions were raised about its meaning, it was by those who were advancing stricter 'gun control', not by those who had an earnest interest in honest interpretation. More than 80% of Americans understand that they have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, which is one reason that 45 of the 50 states explicitly protect the liberty in their state constitutions. In the long run, that number is more likely to go up than down. .....