Free In Idaho!

From a post at Sipsey Street Irregulars I learned of a couple of posts that oughta be read by all “2A proponents”.  The first is Courage and Guns by Michael Gaddy, over at the Lew Rockwell site.

I believe that many first-time gun buyers have a tendency to put the cart before the horse. Many long-time gun owners fit in the same category. Before one purchases a firearm for defense of life and property, it is imperative they realize one must first possess the courage to use this tool of liberty, up to and including deadly force. The firearm should never be the source of that courage. An inanimate object is a poor substitute for character.

A couple years back when I moved my CWL to Idaho from Washington, the instructor of the class made almost the same point.  It was one of the points he drove home very seriously, and a few folks in the class decided they weren’t in the right place after all and didn’t come back after the break.

The second article, Am I The NRA? , is written by L.Neal Smith (the author of The Probability Broach) and it asks the question we should all think on, particularily in light of the NRA’s nonresponse to the Holder AG nomination.  Excellent wish list in this piece, and here’s just one

NINTH, I’d want the NRA to give up the self-defeating notion that you can keep guns OUT of the hands of the “wrong” folks, while simultaneously and miraculously keeping them IN the hands of the “right” folks. Each of us is somebody else’s badguy. In the last century, laws were passed to keep guns from Italians and the Irish. Earlier this century it was blacks and now it’s those who believe in the Bill of Rights. Get it straight: the latter could never have happened if the former hadn’t been possible. No more background checks, NRA, no more prior restraint. History, ancient and recent, clearly shows that if the badguys have guns, the only way to handle it is to make sure as many goodguys have guns as possible.

They’re all good, so go read.  And take them to heart. Arm the good guys, indeed!  And push on the NRA.

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