{"id":171287,"date":"2022-12-01T14:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=171287"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:20:01","slug":"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brooks and Capehart on recent mass shootings and the lame-duck session of Congress\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XDgoeLqcMMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Larry Keane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>New York Times<\/em> columnist David Brooks is reminding America why they shouldn\u2019t put faith in opinion writers pontificating from their metropolitan ivory towers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brooks recently said America would be a much safer country if Americans would simply give up their freedoms and become more like Europe. If America wouldn\u2019t hold onto the individual right to keep and bear arms spelled out in the Second Amendment, and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, he argues it would be a much safer place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his estimation, giving up the ability for self-defense and defense of loved ones would make crime just go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat would take a gigantic culture shift in this country. A revamping of the way we think about privacy, a revamping of the way we think about the role government plays in protecting the common good,\u201d Brooks\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/nyts-david-brooks-give-up-privacies-for-strict-gun-control\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\">said<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0during a segment on <em>PBS<\/em>\u2019 \u201cNewshour.\u201d \u201cI think it would be something. I think it would be good not only to head off shootings, but good to live in a society where we cared more intimately about each other. And I would be willing to give up certain privacies for that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s certainly out of the mainstream of how the rest of America views lawful firearm ownership. There were over 21 million background checks for the sale of a firearm in 2020, the most ever in a single year. Last year, Americans submitted to 18.5 million background checks. In 2022, background check figures are headed for the third strongest year on record. During the week up to and including Black Friday, the FBI\u2019s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/black-friday-nics-checks-tick-up-in-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\">tallied over 711,000<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;background checks, with over 192,000 on Black Friday alone. That was the third busiest day for FBI\u2019s NICS ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Plan: Give Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Just how would America achieve this utopia that Brooks imagines? Just give up, he said. Give up your rights. Give up your freedoms. Submit to an Orwellian state that provides you with all your needs. He admits this wouldn\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut for many Americans that would just be a massive cultural shift to regard our community and regard our common good in more frankly a European style,\u201d Brooks\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/good-massive-cultural-shift-toward-european-gun-control-new-york-times-columnist\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\">explained<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cI think it would benefit our society in a whole range of areas, but it\u2019s hard to see that kind of culture change to a society that\u2019s been pretty individualistic for a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/renowned-sass-world-champion-evil-roy-set-to-ride-off-into-the-sunset\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\">Renowned SASS World Champion \u2018Evil Roy\u2019 Set to \u2018Ride Off into the Sunset\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>America broke away from European-style rule for a reason. The Founding Fathers rejected the British crown\u2019s demands to give up guns then. Based on background checks for gun sales, America continues to reject calls for strict gun control. A recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/405260\/diminished-majority-supports-stricter-gun-laws.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\"><strong>Gallup poll<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;found that support for more gun control dropped nine points from 66 percent to 57 percent in an October survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Failed Disarmament<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The argument that individuals should surrender their gun rights has been tried elsewhere with predictable results. Gun owners that complied with gun seizures find themselves unable to protect themselves while criminals that ignore the law are empowered. A recent\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-09-04\/illegal-firearms-shooting-police-gun-crime\/101306628\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\">report<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from <em>ABC News <\/em>in Australia showed that criminals find it easier now to obtain illicit firearms than before the multiple amnesty periods when government officials collected firearms from Australians. New Zealand instituted its own gun confiscation program and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buckeyefirearms.org\/despite-confiscation-new-zealand-sees-most-gun-crime-decade\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\">crime\u00a0<strong>spiked<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ushered in Draconian gun control, including confiscation, and the country and crime hit\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/438377\/rise-in-gun-crime-despite-government-clampdown-after-terror-attack\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\">new peaks<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only ones left with guns were the criminals. That\u2019s a lesson that Canada\u2019s grappling with now as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is eyeing his own gun confiscation scheme and banning the transfer of any handguns. Some Canadian provinces are\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guns.com\/news\/2022\/10\/17\/canada-5-provinces-and-territories-now-opposing-national-gun-confiscation-program\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\">rejecting<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the heavy-handed measures. Sadly, history is replete with examples of regimes that took away their citizens&#8217; firearms only to become tyrannical and turn their citizens into defenseless subjects. Those that fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. Our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence expressed their fear of a tyrannical government and enshrined our right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in the Bill of Rights for a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brooks is wrong to think that ridding ourselves of rights and lawful gun ownership would reduce crime. The answer to rampant crime is more law enforcement. The changes needed to safeguard America\u2019s communities don\u2019t begin with turning our backs on freedoms. It starts with holding elected officials in The White House, Congress, state capitols and district attorneys responsible for not enforcing the law and failing to hold criminals accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brooks\u2019 notion is a devil\u2019s bargain. Americans know it. Surrendering freedom has never resulted in anything less than creating a society of victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Larry Keane\u00a0<\/strong><em>is Senior Vice President of Government and Public Affairs and General Counsel for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\">National Shooting Sports Foundation<\/a>, the firearms industry trade association.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-giving-up-rights-provides-security\" title=\"Don't Believe Giving Up Rights Provides Security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a> ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Time columnist David Brooks is reminding America why they shouldn\u2019t put faith in opinion writers pontificating from their metropolitan ivory towers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":171288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,25,240],"tags":[132,586,311],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-this-week","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-column","12":"tag-nssf"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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