The Parable of the Empty Holster: Civil Rights and Social Change

Gun owners are fond of saying, correctly, that gun rights are civil rights. But if we are a civil rights movement, we are not a very good one. The favored tools of the civil rights movement - those effective tools that have allowed minorities to change the hearts and minds of the majority around them - are tools that the gun rights movement does not now know how to use. Let me illustrate with a true tale of two activist conferences:

Posted on 2003-01-15 16:59:43.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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