Today’s Left endlessly preaches the evils of “gun violence.” Hardly a day goes by without a progressive politician or mainstream media publication calling for gun control, even for the law-abiding – and it is a message increasingly echoed from the nation’s pulpits, presented as common sense decency and virtue.  Calls for “radical non-violence” are endowed with the imprimatur of religious doctrine.  

What if the truth were radically different? What if the use of deadly force against violent criminals and tyrannical governments is not just compatible with church teaching, but flows from the very heart of biblical faith and reason? What if the freedoms we treasure are intimately tied to the power to resist violent coercion by intolerant governments? 

This is the long-overdue case John Zmirak makes with stunning clarity and conviction in No Second Amendment, No First. A Yale-educated Christian journalist and former college professor, Zmirak shows how the right of self-defense against authoritarian government was confirmed in both the Old and New Testaments, is implied in Natural Law, and has been affirmed by Church tradition over the centuries.  

He further reveals how today’s threats to gun rights, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment, are the inexorable result of increasingly brazen attacks by secularists on human dignity as the “image of God.” From Lenin’s Russia to Hitler’s Germany, from Mao’s China to Chavez’s Venezuela, to the streets of lawless “blue cities” in America in the summer of 2020 , the story is unchanging: the first move of authoritarians is to deny citizens the ability to defend themselves against the government. 

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