Globalize the Second Amendment?

 At the American Thinker today Arthur Schaper has an article (actually the same one twice, but who's counting, right?) entitled It's Time to Globalize the Second Amendment. He suggests that our leaders need to start calling out other countries for denying their citizens their natural rights. He is correct, of course, but before we do that, perhaps we could call out states within the United States for the same thing?  

Gun control is not just a bad policy. Based on the latest horrific mass shooting, it’s just plain evil. Any government that thinks it’s okay to take away a people’s firearms should automatically be considered illegitimate, and our American leaders should not resist stating that fact.

Schaper is exactly correct. I have long made a similar point. Any government that does not trust its citizens with the means of self-defense cannot itself be trusted. For the only reason to deny citizens that right is because the people in charge of that government have no good planned for their citizens. Usually, it is Leftists who want to cram unpopular ideas down the public's throat.

Granted, most thinkers (?) and commentators around the world scoff at the Second Amendment and fear massive gun violence in their countries. Liberal pundits like Piers Morgan excoriated conservatives like Alex Jones and Ben Shapiro over their resistance to gun control and their insistence on maintaining the right to keep and bear arms in the United States.

Gun-control advocates love to point at the statistics, shooting off the number of gun-related deaths in the United States compared to other countries. Of course, many of the statistics are doctored and distorted, or they fail to indicate that many gun deaths are suicide related or occur in urban areas with little enforcement of the law.

In reality, the problem is never the guns. Instead, it’s the people who are misusing the firearms, and the government entities that refuse to prosecute criminals. One can only hope that a horrid mass shooting such as that at Bondi Beach would be the spark necessary to make people around the world give up their inherent or indoctrinated aversion to firearms.

There’s been a lot of talk about “globalizing the intifada,” which has clearly come to mean global jihad. Perhaps the United States should use its soft political power and cultural heft to globalize the Second Amendment and start pressuring Western governments to respect the natural rights of their citizens to keep and bear arms.

Perhaps before calling out other countries, which needs to be done, Congress should show that we mean it by passing a national reciprocity bill for guns?