Violence and Savagery

By |2021-04-08T10:13:28-05:00April 11th, 2021|Categories: 2nd Amendment, American Republic, Mark Malvasi, Senior Contributors|

In the process of taming the wilderness of the New World by violent means, Americans absorbed and bequeathed to future generations some of the savagery that they determined to eliminate. Their purpose was to establish and maintain a civilization, but we have now lost this sense of purpose. Savagery is the product, then, not of [...]

The Meaning, History, & Purpose of the Second Amendment

By |2021-03-16T11:37:16-05:00March 16th, 2021|Categories: 2nd Amendment, American Republic, Constitution|

The right to bear arms protects every other right. Without its preservation, a nation would easily succumb to tyranny. As long as this right is upheld, protected, and exercised lawfully, the torch of liberty may continue to burn. “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people [...]

Progressivism, School Safety, and Common Sense

By |2018-03-15T01:01:07-05:00March 14th, 2018|Categories: 2nd Amendment, Culture, Education, John Willson, Politics|

There is something uniquely awful about children getting gunned down. But in terms of school security, the good news is that we are still free enough to use existing laws and institutions to experiment in states and local communities, in government and private schools, to see what works… One principle that should unite all serious [...]

The Duty to Bear Arms

By |2023-01-22T20:55:39-06:00March 1st, 2017|Categories: 2nd Amendment, American Founding, Bradley J. Birzer, Rights|

Americans historically have not just believed in the “right” to bear arms, but they have, more importantly, claimed an actual republican duty of all Americans to bear arms. Every two years at Hillsdale College, I have the immense privilege of teaching three of our upper-level U.S. survey courses: American Founding (1753-1806); Democratic America (1807-1848); and [...]

On the 12th Day of Christmas, Give Your True Love… a Gun!

By |2021-01-05T21:13:46-06:00December 8th, 2012|Categories: 2nd Amendment, Christmas, Constitution, Gifts for Imaginative Conservatives, John Willson|Tags: , |

The historian Michael Bellesiles tried to usher in the new millennium by claiming that guns were scarce in colonial America and even beyond. The problem was, it was quite easy to show that his research was flawed and his conclusions nonsensical. It wasn’t the first time that a historian with an agenda was found out, [...]

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