Today on Human Events Daily, Jack Posobiec called out recent sweeping gun legislation as an effort by Congress to strip Americans of their right to self-defense.
On Wednesday the House of Representatives passed HR 7910 which they titled the "Protecting Our Kids Act," another name in a long list of Orwellian titles such as "Build Back Better" and the "For The People Act."
"Who could be against protecting children?" Posobiec said, immediately naming the emotional blackmail inherent in their preferred title.
"If you vote against protecting the children, then obviously there's something wrong with you..."
Posobiec explained how the bulbous bill's mendacious language masks draconian new gun laws. As The Post Millennial reported, HR 7910 increases the age limit on the purchase of certain firearms, prevents gun trafficking, modernizes the prohibition on untraceable firearms, encourages the safe storage of firearms, and includes some controversial red flag laws.
These changes aggregate as a concerted effort to drastically minimize the freedom of the 2nd Amendment and jeopardizes an American's right to self-defense.
"You have the right to self-defense, it's an inherent right given to you by God because it is the positive expression of the right to life," Posobiec said.
"We don't have a gun problem in the country," Posobiec said. "We have a people problem. We have a community problem.
"It's a problem of our society being decayed, hollowed out, and falling apart," he added.
Self-defense grew out of the right to life, and was articulated by John Locke when he said "I have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction," a quote Posobiec mentioned on his Tuesday podcast.
Locke was one of many Enlightenment thinkers such as Edmund Burke and Isaac Newton whose ideas became integral to America's foundation. The notion of inherent rights were poured into the Constitution and Bill of Rights by Madison and the framers.
Inherent rights, or rights given by God and protected under the constitution, are in stark contrast to the entitlements the Left often incorrectly refer to as "rights" such as a "right" to free college or free housing or free healthcare.
Posobiec uses Kyle Rittenhouse as a clear recent example of positively, or actively, expressing his right to self defense. With a "mob of people trying to kill him" Rittenhouse successfully defended himself with an AR-15. The example is especially apropos as under HR 7910 Rittenhouse would have been denied purchase of the rifle that saved his life.
The vote for the "Protecting Our Kids Act," was 228-199 with 10 Republicans voting alongside Democrats in a move that has been heavily criticized.
