The GOA Position on Health Care

Dave Kopel has a look at the subject, and doesn’t think GOA is nuts on this one. The question for gun rights groups is whether they want to insert themselves into a contentious political debate over something that’s only tangentially related to their single issue. I think it can go either way, so while I’m normally not very complimentary of GOA’s political acumen, I don’t think they are wrong for raising concerns about what effect a massive government health care bill is going to have on our Second Amendment rights, even if the implications are only theoretical at this point. Plus, we’ve already seen our opponents willing to make arguments along those lines.