Richard Ebeling: The Importance of the Second Amendment

A well written essay that cuts to the heart of the Second Amendment.  Armed people are more powerful than unarmed people. 

For millions of Americans the Second Amendment and its guarantee of the right of the individual to bear arms appears irrelevant and practically anachronistic. It seems a throwback to those earlier days of the Wild West, when many men, far from the law and order provided by the town sheriff and circuit judge, had to protect their families and land from cattle rustlers and outlaw bands. Such people are wrong.

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