Law professor Jonathon Turley
is lamenting the idea that the NRA is right when it comes to the Second Amendment. But Professor, I'm here to tell you, that's no reason to be sad.
Jonathon Turley says coming to this conclusion is hard for "someone raised to believe that the Second Amendment was the dividing line between the enlightenment and the dark ages of American culture." Now Turley knows what gun owners have known for years: that the enlightened men who spoke of our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the same individuals who recognized it's impossible to safeguard those rights when you're disarmed.
In fact, I'd say you'd have to be pretty unenlightened to look at the history and the background of the Second Amendment and still believe it doesn't protect an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Professor Turley may be worried that his recognition of the right to keep and bear arms might get him blackballed from the liberal community, but I don't think he has anything to worry about. From people like Laurence Tribe to the gun blog
Pro-Gun Progressive, there are plenty of people on the left who understand the Second Amendment is for them as well. There aren't as many as I'd like, but that's changing every day.
The Second Amendment isn't just for conservatives, though they've been the most vocal guardians of that right for decades. It's for each and every one of us.
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