On Sunday, SpaceX, X, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk countered Kamala Harris’s ongoing gun control push with an X post that framed “the right to bear arms” as the means of protecting all other rights.
“The right to bear arms is there to protect free speech and stop a tyrannical government from taking your rights away! That’s why the first thing that all tyrants do is disarm the people, just like Chavez did when he was first elected. After that, no more real elections in Venezuela,” Musk said.
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James Madison, the author of the Second Amendment, contended that Americans own guns in order to defend themselves from an overreaching government.
Writing in Federalist 46, Madison suggested Americans are exceptional because armed and noted that the armed…
