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What Liberals Get Wrong About the Second Amendment, by Ann Coulter

What liberals get right about the Second Amendment would be a very short article indeed. From Ann Coulter at townhall.com:What Liberals Get Wrong About the Second Amendment

Source: AP Photo/Wilson Ring

Must we really respond to the “musket” argument again?

Apparently so. It’s all the rage among Democrats right now.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (Democrat) and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (Democrat) both think it’s quite brilliant to claim that, if we care what the framers of the Constitution meant, then the Second Amendment applies only to “muskets”!

In The New York Times, a couple of professors (Democrats, but you knew that) asked: “Is a modern AR-15-style rifle relevantly similar to a Colonial musket? In what ways?” They liked their argument so much, the op-ed was titled, “A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?

[Frantically waving my hand]: Yes, professors, it’s exactly analogous.

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