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Two Yale Law School students put together a pretty laughable argument for restricting the 2A rights of law-abiding citizens in a recent article published by The Atlanti<\/em>c, titled, \u201cA Constitutional Case for Gun Control: History and textual analysis aren’t the only factors that matter. Our lives do, too.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the whole article but the gist is that the Supreme Court should consider a \u201cconstitutional narrative\u201d when deciding what limitations, if any, should be placed on one\u2019s right to keep and bear arms.\u00a0 By \u201cconstitutional narrative\u201d what they really mean to say is stories from the likes of David Hogg and other activists from the anti-gun advocacy group, March for Our Lives<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I\u2019m not opposed to that per se, provided the judges also get to hear the countervailing narratives from the hundreds of thousands of citizens who defend themselves with firearms each year.\u00a0 Their stories matter, too.\u00a0 After all, they are the majority. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, good guys use guns more often to defend themselves than bad guys use guns to perpetrate crime and violence.\u00a0 This should be common knowledge but sadly it\u2019s not.\u00a0 Conservative estimates indicate that the former happens 3-5x more<\/a> than the latter, which means for every David Hogg there are three to five Stephen Willefords<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research looked into this in 2017 and found that one-in-six gun owners used a firearm<\/a> to defend themselves, their families or their possessions. Considering there\u2019re tens of millions of gun owners in this country, that\u2019s not a trivial sum. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, the Yalies who wrote that Atlantic article don\u2019t acknowledge these facts or statistics.  Instead, they see gun control \u2014 specifically, universal background checks, a ban on \u201cassault weapons\u201d and a law prohibiting adults under 21 from purchasing firearms \u2014 as \u201cpreemptive self-defense\u201d for the citizen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn individual right to gun ownership offers one path, deputizing all people to defend themselves with a firearm at their side. Gun regulation offers another such path to self-defense, one vastly more efficacious and preferred by the American public. It represents a mode of preemptive self-defense, whereby the state is tasked by its citizens with limiting access to deadly force,\u201d they write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Here\u2019s How Many Rounds You Actually Need In Your Carry Gun<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Like communism, gun control works in theory.  But how does it play out in the real world?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s pretend for a moment that a 20-year-old college student is sitting alone at home doing school work.\u00a0 It\u2019s late at night.\u00a0 She can\u2019t afford to live in the best part of town, so she compromised and moved to a different, not-so-great part of town.\u00a0 She wanted to purchase a firearm for self-defense but, alas, she\u2019s not 21.\u00a0 No worries, though.\u00a0 The state will protect her.\u00a0 It has recently passed the aforementioned gun-control legislation and she can rest assured that Big Brother has sufficiently \u201climited access to deadly force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except for that it hasn\u2019t, really.\u00a0 The serial rapist who has been casing her home for the past week doesn\u2019t really care what the law says.\u00a0 The law prohibiting rape didn\u2019t stop him from savaging his first two victims, the law banning dope didn\u2019t stop him from shooting up a few hours ago, and the new law requiring universal background checks did nothing to stop him from buying a pistol on the black market.\u00a0 Despite all the state\u2019s efforts, he is still armed and dangerous.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she sees him prowling about the front lawn, she dials 9-1-1.\u00a0 Police promise to be on the scene within minutes.\u00a0 The dispatcher instructs her to stay on the phone and to describe his movements as they unfold.\u00a0 She does, until he breaks through the front window and she can no longer report.\u00a0 He is inside the residence, bearing down on her.\u00a0 And she has to fight for her life with whatever she has on hand. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unarmed and physically outmatched, how does she survive? Where is the state in this equation? Police are on their way but they’re not there yet. What happens next??? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In real life, when the rubber meets the road, self-defense is not a task for the state, it\u2019s an obligation for the individual.\u00a0 Heck, the whole freakin’ concept is built around oneself<\/em>, hence self<\/em>-defense. How did these Ivy Leaguers miss that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What this comes down to is one is ultimately responsible for one’s own safety. Consequently, in a free society, 2A rights should be maximized, not restricted. Because as much as gun-control advocates would have one believe that the government’s quest to disarm good guys will make bad guys harmless, that’s just not the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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