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Does the Right to Self-Defense Come from Government?

                      Does the Right to Self-Defense Come from Government? NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox recently wrote a column in U.S. News & World Report describing the right to keep and bear arms as the “most fundamental of human rights,” adding that the right to self-defense “is not bestowed on [us] by government.” Cox’s message rings of Thomas Jefferson, who famously wrote that men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” and it reminds readers that some rights not only transcend but actually supersede government regulation. And this is… View Article