By Jarrett Stepman
Since the awful riot that took place at the base of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month, activists and vandals have responded throughout the country by looking for 100-year-old monuments to destroy.
While it may be bad enough to strip down history, the process should rightly remain in the hands of local communities and be done through a legal and democratic process.
Many of these statues are indeed of great men, but what truly makes America great is that we are a nation of laws and not men.
The monuments targeted for destruction are not just of Confederates—they are of
Founders, explorers, emancipators, and religious men as well.
While polls have shown that most Americans want to keep the Confederate statues,
lawless mobs and vandals have decided for us that history must be destroyed and
dumped, perhaps literally, into the ash heap of history.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/08/22/8-monuments-attacked-since-charlottesville