{"id":57015,"date":"2016-01-11T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57015"},"modified":"2016-01-12T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:20:13","slug":"why-we-fight-part-i-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57015","title":{"rendered":"Why We Fight, Part I: History"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Charles C.W. Cooke’s fantastic piece in National Review last week on the power of emotion in the gun debate<\/a>, he made an excellent point; facts and statistics aren’t enough.<\/p>\n

We Real Americans absolutely crush the gun-grabbers at every turn on the facts and the statistics.<\/p>\n

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And it shows; the American people are casting off the detritus of decades of leftist, statist propaganda; gun control is now a minority position<\/a>\u00a0(and while support for gun control even at the worst was a mile wide and an inch deep, America’s shooters are passionate and committed<\/a>), and\u00a0the NRA is more popular than President Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it goes way beyond facts.<\/p>\n

So this week, I’m going to leave statistics aside for a moment, mostly, and focus on the the philosophical, historical, and yes,\u00a0emotional\u00a0<\/em>reasons to support the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.<\/p>\n

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Ideals<\/strong>: \u00a0America is unique in the world in many ways – but the most important is that we are the first and only nation built on ideas rather than a common piece of land, language or bloodline. \u00a0It was the first nation in history that one could\u00a0join<\/em>, rather than be born into.<\/p>\n

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All that was needed to\u00a0be an American<\/em>, until recently anyway, was to believe…:<\/p>\n