Guns are supposed to secure our freedom?

I’m told that guns are supposed to secure our freedom.

But that is never actually explained. Freedom isn’t defined. It’s just thrown out there as if everyone has the same definition. But we don’t. The claim also doesn’t hold up to facts either. It’s just assumed to be true without any critical examination about whether reality holds it up.

Is it freedom when mothers fear sending their children to school because their kids might not make it home that afternoon because a gunman decided to visit their school and kill whoever they wanted to?

Is it freedom when people can’t go to a grocery store without keeping a watchful eye out on other shoppers, just in case they pull out a gun and start shooting people?

Is it freedom when people fear going to a religious sanctuary because they may get gunned down?

What is freedom?

I don’t buy the idea that guns secure our freedom. Rather guns secure an order. Order and freedom are not the same thing. And order and freedom are both different from justice.

When the Puritans left England because the Church of England refused to comply with what the Puritans wanted, the Puritans went to the Netherlands, which practiced religious freedom. But the Puritans didn’t like it because they couldn’t impose their beliefs on others. So they came to North America, not in pursuit of religious freedom, which they were leaving, but the freedom to impose their religion on…