The Founders Tried Their Damnedest to Ensure Individual Gun Rights
…but even armed bears weren’t enough to head off centuries of debate over their meaning.
…but even armed bears weren’t enough to head off centuries of debate over their meaning.
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
Gun control advocates love to claim that the Founding Fathers couldn’t possibly have conceived of repeating rifles when they drafted the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. The history of Joseph Belton, an inventor and gunsmith from Philadelphia, and his correspondence with the Continental Congress proves otherwise. Belton claimed to have devised a new … Read more