On last night’s episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” guest host Tim Ballard brought on David Barton to give his “expert” perspective on how the Founding Fathers would have responded to the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Barton insisted that the Founders called the Second Amendment “the biblical right of self defense” and crafted it to ensure that citizens could protect themselves again any and all threats, including the government, with equal firepower.
In Barton’s view, whatever weapons the government possesses must also be available to the population at large because the citizens might one day need to resist the government, so this principle of “equal power … has got to control the gun control debate”:
