(Author’s note: The kind words about last week’s dispatch were very encouraging and I am grateful for the feedback. “The Dixie Highway” is the first chapter of a memoir I’ve been working on for several years. The finished book will be entitled, “When Horses Could Fly: A Memoir of the American Dream.” The manuscript is completed in draft form but needs much work in a rewrite. However, as subsequent chapters are finished, I will post them here. I am hoping the final draft will offer a narrative and perspective that counterbalances the story told by J.D. Vance in his “Hillbilly Elegy.”)
The rights enshrined in the First Amendment — religion, speech, the press, assembly, redress of grievances — are sacrosanct and irreducible. The right to bear arms, as codified in the Second Amendment, is circumscribed and limited. But you would not know that by sampling the American fetish with guns and the protection they deserve from any meaningful regulation.
Liability insurance for gun owners. Excellent idea. Beto could sell that. At least for assault weapons.
The rights enshrined in the First Amendment — religion, speech, the press, assembly, redress of grievances — are sacrosanct and irreducible. The right to bear arms, as codified in the Second Amendment, is circumscribed and limited. But you would not know that by sampling the American fetish with guns and the protection they deserve from any meaningful regulation.