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In an excellent 2016 article in the Los Angeles Times entitled “For U.S. Foreign Policy, It’s Time to Look Again at the Founding Fathers’ Great Rule’” (which I highly recommend reading), Texas A&M Professor Elizabeth Cobbs wrote:
In 2013, for the first time since the Pew organization began polling Americans on the question five decades earlier, the majority (52%) said the United States should “mind its own business” and allow other countries to get along on their own. Today, Pew finds, the number has risen to 57%.
That is an incredible statistic. After the debacles in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, it seems that Americans are finally questioning the interventionist paradigm that has held our country in its grip since the Spanish-American War in 1898. They are questioning the notion that the U.S. government should serve as the world’s policeman, intervener, interloper, aggressor, assassin, kidnapper, and regime-changer.
The United States was founded as a non-interventionist, limited-government republic, one whose government did ...
At its root, gun control is an elitist policy. One group of people decides that by virtue of birth, social status, economic status, or political persuasion, they should control the ownership of firearms. The framers of our Constitution explicitly rejected that notion, lauding instead the value of an armed populace. To protect the right to keep and bear arms, the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791.
A state representative and congressional candidate from Ohio, Christina Hagan, is running a campaign ad calling out the elite for their gun-control agenda. “Guns have been a part of our family forever,” Hagan says in the ad. “These guns defend my home, my family, my baby.” But now, “California and New York elites are coming for our guns.”
Hagan is right. Elites aren't comfortable with commoners owning guns. Former New York City mayor (and billionaire) Michael Bloomberg is a perfect example of gun-controllers' elitism. Last month he committed to matching donations to ...
