Brilliant defense of the 2nd Amendment

[hawk87]

http://www.garynorth.com/public/10459.cfm

I enjoy reading Gary North's website and this particular article is a great little history lesson.

[mbinpa]

Thank you so much for the link. I have been looking for exactly such a paper to help defend my view of the 2nd Amendment.

A couple of excerpts:


"I am arguing that the citizen who owns defensive weapons, and was trained in their use, constitutes the great barrier against centralized power from above and decentralized criminal violence from below. It is the man in the middle, the armed voter, who is the backbone of Western liberty."


"I believe we are coming close to the end of the nation-state as we have known it for the past 500 years. I believe that the military historian, Martin van Creveld, is correct. The central governments are running out of solvency, and their ability to provide protection against crime and also provide retirement benefits for the mass of humanity, is in decline."

[tsafa]

Great post. I saved that link.

[bmcdaniel]

Excellent article! Bookmarked.