The fight for gun rights is not simply about being able to carry firearms. It is more than exercising your right to defend your life and property.
These are the areas we tend to focus on as gun owners. But the fight for the right to keep and bear arms is much deeper than it would seem, which is why the authoritarians in our midst desperately want us to be disarmed.
A friend of mine wrote a profound post on X in which he responded to another user claiming he was living in “terror” because he owns firearms. “Don’t [gun owners] sit up all night with their guns in their hands looking around nervously at every door and window?” the user wrote.
Carl responded, expertly laying out what the ability to defend oneself with a firearm truly means. He explained how it represents a sense of “personal autonomy and equality,” especially “in a world where violence can come…
