Why liberals should love the Second Amendment
A well argued case for a strong liberal defense of the right to bear arms: Daily Kos: Why liberals should love the Second Amendment.
I have to say, I am a contradiction. I was an expert marksman in the Army, but I haven’t shot a weapon before or since or outside of duty. I don’t really care for guns much and I don’t own a gun, don’t plan to. Yet my sense of civil liberty (and all the reasons stated here) causes me to lean toward a strong defense of the right to own guns. As with all civil liberties there are instances of reasonable regulation (can’t shout fire in a theatre, can’t threaten the president with death, can’t discriminate in the public square in the name of religion), and there is with the 2nd amendment. I’ll agree with much of what is said here, we should be defending the 2nd amendment as vigorously as the others.
2nd Amendment Disconnect
During President Obama’s campaign, I knew he wouldn’t be quite “conservative” (re: libertarian) enough for me concerning 2nd amendment rights. The campaign also suggested to me there would be quite a disconnect from both the left (who would expect him to be a gun control savior) and the right (who would expect him to be the incarnation of their tyrannical fears that seemed to be buried during the Bush administration. “He’s taking away our guns!”)
I’ve not been disappointed.
