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David Fellerath has a beard, so he must be credible. WashPo describes him as “a freelance writer, hunter and community organizer.”<\/p><\/div>\n

David Fellerath is a freelance writer who recently penned a op-ed for the Washington Post entitled, \u201cI own guns. But I hate the NRA<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s exactly the type of misguided nonsense\u00a0you\u2019d expect from a closet anti-gunner. I\u2019ll break down some of the excerpts from it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI own guns. But I hate the NRA\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the title of the article. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. And certainly the National Rifle Association is far from a perfect organization. It has its flaws. But even those who have serious disdain for the gun lobby\u2019s inflammatory rhetoric and doomsday prognosticating have to acknowledge that if the NRA didn\u2019t exist, one\u2019s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms would not be what it is today. There\u2019s no doubt that America would have gone the way of Europe with respect to firearms if it weren\u2019t for the continued efforts of the NRA.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, you can not like em, I guess. But as a gun owner you have to respect their grind and the way they\u2019ve been able to keep gun-grabbers from gutting the 2A.<\/p>\n

“But when a U.S. congresswoman was shot in the face, the NRA made certain that no law was passed that would have made her safer.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Law don\u2019t make people \u201csafer.\u201d Laws work retroactively in that they mainly provide a framework for the legal system to adjudicate how one ought to be punished for acting in a certain (unlawful) manner. \u00a0Sure, to a marginal degree\u00a0laws\u00a0work as a deterrent to many citizens, but not to those drug dealers, gang bangers and sociopaths who break laws on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Would more laws have stopped the Charleston Shooter, the Sandy Hook Shooter or the Aurora, Colorado, shooter?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t think so. If one wants to create a \u201csafer\u201d environment for oneself and family one has many options (guard dogs, security alarms, less-lethal weaponry), but the optimal action is to become an armed and trained citizen as one\u2019s relative safety is ultimately\u00a0proportional to their capacity to handle a threat or a danger.<\/p>\n

“My guns are long guns, intended for hunting and skeet shooting. Relatively few crimes are committed with hunting weapons, which are designed to shoot animals, not humans. (In fact, knives are more commonly used to commit murder than long guns.) Meanwhile, the death toll from handguns is staggering, especially when we remember that the majority of gun deaths are suicides.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Subtly, Fellerath is suggesting that the Second Amendment is about hunting and sports shooting. It\u2019s not. It was created to defend against tyranny.<\/p>\n

Moreover, he is insinuating that handguns ought to be banned, noting that most gun-related homicides involve the use of handguns. Yet, what he fails to mention is the staggering number of defensive gun uses where good guys with handguns used them to defend themselves, their property and\/or their loved ones. Estimates suggest that there are at the very least 100,000 DGUs each year, a large percentage of which undoubtedly involve the use of handguns.<\/p>\n

If one is going to be honest about the effect handguns have on society, one needs to examine all the relevant stats, not just the one’s that fit one’s agenda.<\/p>\n

“Rather than being our American birthright, gun ownership should be a privilege earned after thorough examination and training, like driving a car. But in 21st-century America, arms-bearing is an inalienable right, thanks to 27 anachronistic words of a constitution ratified in an 18th-century world of slow-loading muskets.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Again, Fellerath loses sight of the true intent of the Second Amendment, which is to safeguard against tyranny. By protecting one\u2019s natural right to self-defense and one\u2019s fundamental right to keep and bear arms, the founders and framers were also ensuring that a free people would remain free. There is nothing anachronistic about it, as dictators, despots and hegemonic regimes are always a threat to liberty.<\/p>\n

As weapons technology evolves it only makes sense for a citizenry to keep up with the times.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are just a few of the problems with Fellerath\u2019s article. There are more. If you want to be mildly amused by the author\u2019s misguidedness, you can check out the article by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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