Guns are in America's DNA

Over at Bearing Arms, Tom Knighton has a post entitled The Gun and How It Made America Great, that in turn refers to a Daily Signal interview with the David Harsanyi, author of a new book First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History With the Gun. David Harsanyi also blogs at Townhall.com.

I suggest you read both links, then come back here for a short commentary.

Have you read them both?  Good. Now, I have not read the book yet, but will be purchasing it soon.  The book sounds like one that should be on the book shelves of every shooter.

Harsanyi makes two points that I want to emphasize.  The first is that the right of self defense, and the right to bear arms precedes other rights such as free speech and freedom of religion.  Indeed, it can be traced back at least to the Roman law, and the Bible itself makes clear that you have the duty of self defense.  Second is that the Second Amendment directly supports and defends the rest of the Bill of Rights.  We have seen how the Left has attempted to undermine the other rights listed in the Bill of Rights.  Due process has been undermined, as well as Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights in their pursuit of the President and their maniacal focus on guns as opposed to the people who wield them.  We can not let the left near the levers of power.