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President Joe Biden may assure the American people that hisprogressive gun control effortswould not in any way impinge on the Second Amendment, but other far-left pundits are more honest about their agenda.

Bill Press, radio host and former co-host of CNNs Crossfire, recently made headlines with an op-ed published by the cable outlet calling for repeal of the Second Amendment. In it, Press declares that the right to keep and bear arms has nothing to do with self-defense, originally was meant to authorize state militias, and is anti-black in its origins.

Press may be more forthcoming about what he wants, but theres still not much that his analysis gets correct.

The right to keep and bear arms belongs to the people, not to the militia.

The phrase the people everywhere else in the Bill of Rights refers to individual citizens. The people may be called upon to employ their private arms in the collective defense of state or nation, and that collective defense should be well-regulated in the sense that the militia should be trained, organized, and efficient. But far from being well-regulated, the underlying individual right shall not be infringed.

Meanwhile, it is not the Second Amendment that was historically racist,but gun control lawsthat stripped certain segments of the population of any meaningful method of defending their rights. The fact that slaves were disarmed belies Press pointtheir oppressors knew all too well that armed slaves would defend their inalienable rights to life and liberty.

As the numbers prove, the Second Amendment continues to serve today as a bulwark of individual liberty, enabling Americans to protect themselves and others from criminals.

Almost every major study on the issue has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between500,000 and 3 milliontimes annually, according to the most recent report on the subject by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For this reason, The Daily Signal each month publishes an article highlighting some of the previous months many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missedor that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accountsherefrom 2019, 2020, 2021, and so far in 2022.)

The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in May. You may explore more by using The Heritage Foundations interactiveDefensive Gun Use Database. (The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.)

Bill Press is wrong in his CNN commentary. Repealing the Second Amendment wont make Americans safer. Far from it.

Without the right to keep and bear arms in self-defense, law-abiding Americans like those highlighted above would be more vulnerable than ever to criminals and would-be tyrants alike.

The history of disarming disfavored populations shows this all too well.

Armed people are harder to victimize.

This piece originally appeared in The Daily Signal

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