New York Times bestselling author Frank Miniter’s new book, “The Future of the Gun,” stresses that there are two gun cultures in America: one of law abiding, liberty-loving citizens who cherish their firearms for self-defense and hunting, and another of violent criminals who take advantage of the stringent gun regulations that disarm those who are most vulnerable.
Let me show you what’s going on here: Over there you see some stores that are open — there are shop owners there. They should be the pillars of this society. They should be the leaders…everyone should look up to them. But they don’t. They’ve been neutered, their guns have been taken away.
The end result in this former gang member’s view is that for the young kid:
he looks around the neighborhood, and he looks for the power…He looks to the gang member who has a gun tucked away in his shorts. He’s the power in that neighborhood. Whereas the average person who has been disarmed, the average store owner who has been disarmed are neutered, they don’t.
The more I ponder what the former gang member says, the more convinced I am that his words are more significant that I originally thought. Many anti-2A arguments try to dismiss one of the main pro-2A arguments of self defense. These anti-2A folks like to portray those of us who claim not just the right, but the need, for self defense as a bunch of paranoid folks needlessly living in fear in our modern, civilized "safe" society with law enforcement ready to protect us. But this guy confirms what many of us have been saying all along. And those who've never been victims (so far, I'm fortunate enough to never have been), or those who've never worked inside prisons, don't know the real danger from those ready and willing to do harm to law-abiding innocents.
