The U.S. Supreme Court has determined the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects and guarantees our individual right to "keep and bear arms." And yet politicians at the national, state, and local levels continue to erect excessively high hurdles for the law-abiding citizens who want to own guns.
On this edition of Against The Current, Dan Proft sits down with David Keene, former Chairman of the American Conservative Union and President of the National Rifle Association.
They discuss the fundamental problem of how to roll back the size and scope of government. The fear that the Leviathan always grows, that at best we can only slow its growth. Reagan changed that assumption. Can Trump?
What lessons can we learn from the NRA, one of the most successful political movements in history? What is the last frontier in the struggle for gun rights?
JEFFERSON — The most important thing in the fight to preserve the Second Amendment is to pass on the rights and values to the next generation, David A. Keene told Fort Atkinson Wisconservation Club members Monday evening.
Keene, a Fort Atkinson native and former president and current board member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), emphasized the importance of ongoing efforts by local groups such as the Wisconservation Club to preserve Americans’ right to bear arms.
Obama’s Hail Mary pass
The president tries one last time to eviscerate the Second Amendment
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - - Monday, December 12, 2016
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Growing speculation that Democrat Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election next month is sparking a mad dash by gun stores to overstock their shelves with out of fear she will move fast to sign gun control executive orders.
It is a timely, revealing book — to be released just as the election season peaks. “Shall Not Be Infringed: The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment” by David A. Keene and Thomas L. Mason will be published Oct. 11. The authors offer a meticulous review of the gun control debate in America and an inside look at strategic operatives who use polls, studies and numbers to confuse the public and muddle facts.
