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Somewhat long but interesting article from 2013.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-second-amendment-as-an-expression-of-first-principles/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=second-amendment-first-principles
"This is the real origin of today’s gun control hysteria—the idea that professional police forces and the military have rendered the armed citizen superfluous; that no individual should be responsible for the defense of himself and his family, but should leave it to the experts. The idea of individual responsibilities, along with that of individual rights, is in fact incompatible with the Progressive vision of the common welfare."
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-second-amendment-as-an-expression-of-first-principles/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=second-amendment-first-principles
"This is the real origin of today’s gun control hysteria—the idea that professional police forces and the military have rendered the armed citizen superfluous; that no individual should be responsible for the defense of himself and his family, but should leave it to the experts. The idea of individual responsibilities, along with that of individual rights, is in fact incompatible with the Progressive vision of the common welfare."
