LewRockwell By Tom Woods
From the Tom Woods Letter:
It requires little elaboration to understand why receiving death threats might sharpen one’s opinions on the merits of gun ownership.
I would guess that somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 percent of my readers are familiar with JP Sears. He had a way of hilariously skewering crazy social trends without being overtly ideological. We weren’t even completely sure where he stood, but we knew he had to be at least in part on the side of sanity.
Recently, Sears has become much more open about his views. And it turns out that one issue on which from our point of view Sears had been unsound was guns.
He had a fairly rapid recent conversion on the subject. Here’s an excerpt from his episode in the forthcoming Firearms and Freedoms docuseries:
Sears: When I started seeing our freedoms getting eroded, my mind really started to pivot on guns, going from “I think we’d be better off without guns” to neutral to quickly “oh, no, no, guns are very essential to protect the sovereignty of the individual and truly the U.S. Constitution and what America is founded on, which is freedom.”
