Andrew Willit is from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is currently a freshman at Northwood University majoring in Entrepreneurship and minoring in Finance. He chose Northwood because of his business-centric mindset that aligns with the Northwood Ideas as well as their emphasis on personal freedoms which are lacking today in
the field of academia. Andrew is a very patriotic American who serves on the board of Turning Point USA as the event coordinator and believes that knowledge in the power of the people and
an armed civilian population is stronger than any global superpower. In his free time, Andrew enjoys being with his family, fishing, shooting/modifying firearms, and growing his knowledge of the world through daily research into topics of his interest.
The following is part of the In Defense of Freedom essay series by Northwood University students. The second amendment has commonly been described as the defender of all other amendments that allow us to live as a free society. Though over the past few decades we have seen more attempts than ever by our own...