That’s the short version of what David French has written today in National Review:
The right to keep and bear arms has nothing to do with hunting, of course. It’s about self-defense — not just from other individuals but also from potentially lawless government power.
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This is not the first time that French or other contributors at National Review have written this. Of course it is not necessary to shoot your opponents if you WIN an election. It’s only necessary if you LOSE.
This is a philosophy for losers like Tim McVeigh. Can’t win an election? Open fire.
Note that French pushes the envelope even further. It is apparently proper to resort to the Second Amendment (which I take it, means “shoot”) if there is even “potentially lawless government power”
(Rental truck) bombs away, I guess.
