Patriotism: A Dangerously Misunderstood Virtue

By Tom Morris and Mick Mulroy

One of us (Tom) just wrote a book called The Everyday Patriot. When we recently looked it up on a major bookseller’s site, the next item listed was “a patriot’s guide” to the automatic weapons and handguns deemed best for patrolling your neighborhood, while dressed in military-type attire. A few years ago, a US politician’s patriotism turned on the issu…