If you haven’t already heard, anti-gun activist George Takei recently tweeted, “Crazy thought, but those 20 million AR-15s now in this country could sure arm a lot of Ukrainians.”
Crazy thought, but those 20 million AR-15s now in this country could sure arm a lot of Ukrainians.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 7, 2022
Accidentally acknowledging the core of the right of the people to keep and bear arms — including ‘weapons of war’ like the AR-15.
Crazy thought, but if the people of Ukraine were already armed — if their right to be armed was enshrined in their constitution, as it is in ours — would the Russians have invaded in the first place?
Crazy thought, but if the people of Ukraine were already armed, would any of the anti-democratic measures taken against them by their own government (like outlawing particular political parties) have been instituted in the first place?
Would anyone suggest that we send Ukraine a bunch of over-and-under shotguns, or Olympic-style 22 caliber pistols, or single-action revolvers? That would be crazy.
If you are fighting for your freedom — whether against your own government, or someone else’s — that’s a war. If you’re fighting a war, you need weapons of war, not weapons of sport.
The Second Amendment provides more protection for something like the semi-automatic AR-15, and the fully-automatic M4, than it does for weapons that are designed primarily for hunting or for sport.
And if we take the entirely consistent position that arms and education are the most important tools for keeping a people free, then the government should be providing AR-15 rifles (and training) to everyone, instead of looking at schemes to take them away.
