Instead, the story of gun rights and regulation in the United States has been marked, since the beginning, by efforts to restrict and control private armed groups, not unleash them. ADADUnfortunately, a combination of gun politics, permissive gun laws and social media technology have made these regulations relatively easy to evade. It is unwise to allow private armed groups to become normalized in our political life — whether the groups are gathering to protest law enforcement or to aid them. Advocates for armed private groups point to this decision as confirming their right to police towns like Kenosha. That tradition consistently viewed private armed groups as threats to public peace, not its guardians.

Source: Washington Post September 02, 2020 10:03 UTC