By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--January 2, 2013
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I worry that our attention span on these things is so limited. You had to bring up the question of guns as the president was laying out his second term agenda. It is one of these cultural, political issues where you have a ferociously well-organized opposition and a more diffuse common sense broader population and I think that's where the tension is.
Look, there's gotta be limits of some kind. I've even talked to people who are gun owners saying, why couldn't you have a club where they actually own the assault weapons and if you want to shoot it for target practice you have to go to the licensed club, get the gun, shoot it, and the check it back in.This is what they do in England, for instance. If you want to enjoy target practice you go to a club, but the gun can never leave the club unless it goes to a police station. British citizens are not allowed to store their firearms in their own homes. But, then again, the Brits have no right to self-protection like we do in the United States. Brokaw showed that he clearly has no idea what the Second Amendment means, how it works, or what its history is. After all, if you cannot actually own your gun and store it in your home where you can get hold of it in emergencies, you are necessarily barred from being able to "bear arms" as the Second Amendment maintains. The Second Amendment is not an assurance for hobbyists. It is a guarantee of a civil right. Finally, throughout the panel segment the participants continued to say "assault weapon" as if it described a single, quantifiable thing. It isn't and that is the biggest problem with this debate. The term "assault weapon" is practically meaningless but is bandied about as if it is a term of defined meaning. This Meet the Press panel clearly showed how the left media attempts to skew the debate coupled with an entire lack of understanding of the issues.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.