When the Modern Gun Control Movement Started [More]
Dan Gifford resurrects a 2019 piece that recalls how recent history has led to where we are today.
I remember where I was when Kennedy was killed.
We were living in Tehran. Dad ran the brand-new B.F. Goodrich tire factory and we were getting ready to go to school when his British friend called to tell him the president had been shot and killed in Delaware. I didn’t learn “Dallas” until we got to school and newspapers were taped up on the compound wall by the entrance gate.
I was 11. It was the first time I’d considered that history was something we don’t just read about, but live through, and even make.
Kennedy, by the way, was an old-school Democrat who understood the purpose of the Second Amendment:
By CALLING ATTENTION to ‘a well regulated militia,’ the ‘security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms,’ our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.
And he was an NRA Life Member killed by an ACLU member.
