Lock and Load (your groceries).

Toy truck full of liberty hauling a camper full of freedom. The truck is red, like the spilled blood of patriots, and is carrying a majestic American flag. The camper is painted with American-flag like stuff.

There has been much debate in American life over the 2nd amendment to the United States Constitution. The second amendment gives us the right to keep and bear arms, thanks to founding fathers like Antonin Scalia recognizing the importance of well-regulated militias needing the morale boost of everyday individual Americans firing their AR-15s into the air to cheer them on. The next time you’re relaxing at the gun range or pumping your next meal full of lead, thank the second amendment. But did you know that the second amendment also protects your right to drive? It’s true.

The founding fathers knew that America's founding documents would need to foresee changes in society and technology over the centuries. When our founding fathers penned the second amendment in the Middle Ages, the weapons of the day were muskets and swords. But if they wanted to give people the rights to only carry muskets and swords, they would have just specified Muskets and Swords, beginning with capital letters. Instead, they used the generic term when they said the right to bear “Arms” would not be infringed. Surely, they knew that American ingenuity and the free market would find new ways to wield the power of life and death that George Washington, the author of the 2nd amendment, couldn’t even imagine.

Fast forward to 2023.

As with other forms of freedom like smoking or BASE jumping, driving a car carries with it a risk of death. Government scientists have found that car ownership and operation contains so much liberty, that they consider automobiles to be deadly weapons, and weapons, thankfully, are the birthright of every American.

If George Washington were still alive today, he would see cars as just as important a tool of fighting for American freedom as the relative sticks and stones that his contemporaries were using to defeat the communists of his time, the British. He, too, would feel a rush of power from running down Antifa thugs rioting in the streets, and would gladly answer the call of duty to defend our nation's roadways against cyclists taking the full lane.

So the next time you’re cruising down the highway with a gun under your seat, don’t forget the one you’re riding in, and don’t forget to thank God for the freedom we enjoy as Americans, that is only possible due to the heroic sacrifice of 42,915 Americans every year.