by Brian Puckett

About the author: Brian Puckett writes for the Liberty Pole, a bi-monthly publication of the Lawyer's Second Amendment Society.

A “Random Shots” article in the March, 1997, issue of Handguns magazine, which correctly urged gunowners to work for widespread public support for gun ownership, closes with: “If we can’t do that [gain this support], I have the ominous suspicion that we are going to lose.”

Lose? What other portion of the Bill of Rights would we speak so helplessly about “losing"” Freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? Freedom of assembly"

No number of citizens—not even 99.99 percent—may vote away a natural right. They may go through the motions and pass a law, but that law will be null and void. The right...