A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees

Anti-gun politicians and journalists like to ignore or ridicule an embarrassing little fact: gun ownership is protected by the Constitution. The Founders knew that governments with unarmed subjects have been the source of wanton slaughter and unrestrained evil. Our own age of Hitler and Stalin and hundreds of millions of the defenseless slaughtered bear out their timeless wisdom. Halbrook explains beautifully their thinking, and the debates that went on in formulating the protection of the right to keep and bear arms.