While the case could be made that you need to start people out slowly and get them to dip their toes into the pool and splash around a bit before wading into deeper waters, couching the Second Amendment exclusively in “self-defense” terms limits the right and invites infringements. And Cox has supported plenty of those in his tenure at NRA. [More]
He’s right about the need. But is he the right person for the job?
I’m so old, I remember when NRA introduced the periodical American Guardian, oriented towards self-defense owners, to complement their age-old American Hunter and American Rifleman (competition shooter) titles. The experiment lasted exactly one year, after which the magazine unceremoniously disappeared. The cowardly NRA had no taste for defending self-defense ownership against leftist criticism of the magazine.