Are Gun Rights Fundamental Freedoms or Government-Granted Privileges? by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, June 14, 2022

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”

Last week I called out a writer from the Vichy-Con Ethics and Public Policy Center for his misleading, muddled endorsement of Red Flag laws targeting law-abiding gunowners. He made the mistake of answering me on Twitter, employing a few talking points that must have seemed clever to him — at first.

In doing so, he revealed an almost total ignorance of the laws he was advocating, what they would do, and what they implied. He gave lip-service to the Second Amendment, while advocating measures that would render it totally hollow — just as Jim Crow laws eviscerated the amendments guaranteeing black Americans full civil and voting rights, and due process of law. …

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