It was time to ask America’s 1st Freedom columnist and constant contributor, Charles C. W. Cooke, about his perspective with being an immigrant from England who ended being a staunch proponent of our Second Amendment-protected rights.
But, when he mentioned the English Bill of Rights, which was enacted in 1689, I had to interrupt him to note that this bill of rights only protected the gun rights of protestants and that, therefore, Americans vastly improved upon this English beginning.
He laughed and conceded the point. The English Bill of Rights established some basic civil rights and limited the power of the monarchy, but, indeed, it was discriminatory. Still, the English Bill of Rights guaranteed freedoms to many, such as the freedom of speech in Parliament, the right to bear arms and freedom from taxation without parliamentary consent.
From there, Cooke discusses the elitism of the gun-control backers, and how the gun-control elitists are now, and have always been, focused on subjugating the American citizenry.
