As I have said before, public servants who advocate gun control must have forgotten they are servants or intend to change the relationship.
I now read in David Kopel’s new paper, How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution (via Say Uncle):
The ideology underlying all forms of American resistance to British usurpations and infringements was explicitly premised on the right of self-defense of all inalienable rights; from the self-defense foundation was constructed a political theory in which the people were the masters and government the servant, so that the people have the right to remove a disobedient servant. The philosophy was not novel, but was directly derived from political and legal philosophers such as John Locke, Hugo Grotius, and Edward Coke.
They haven’t thought of themselves as servants in a LONG time, if ever.
True. But that doesn’t mean we should stop trying to put them in their proper place.
History will always repeat since we no longer teach it.