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Did the Founding Fathers Blow It?

By Dennis Petrocelli, MD I write this on the occasion of President Biden’s executive order regarding “gun” “control”.  I anticipate that my readers would expect me to excoriate him and his ilk and denounce them as tyrannical, ill-informed, and a threat to our nation’s foundational principles. All of these points are true, but they aren’t … Read more

The Founders on What The Second Amendment Really Means

By Dr. Larry Trick “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 “The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer … Read more

Our Relationship With Guns Has Changed Since the Founding of the Republic

Second Amendment Gun Rights

“But it’s not just the guns that have changed since the days of the early republic. It’s our relationship to the them. Most Americans nowadays aren’t living subsistence lives under constant physical threat. The frontier has been ‘closed,’ according to the US Census, since 1890. In 1933, the National Guard of the United States was … Read more

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