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ESSE SINE METU IN FACIE INIMICI TUI. TUENDAM INOPS ET FACERE NON MALI.

How can you look at Congress and still believe in Intelligent Design?
-Sheriff Jim

Author Miles FortisPosted on September 21, 2026Categories Observation O' The Day

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1 MILESFORTIS 1999-2004 ARCHIVE
2 PRIVACY POLICY
3 FAIR USE STATEMENT
61 Statistics Describing U.S. Gun Owners
69% of mass shootings happen outside of the US
A Different Point Of View: Natural Law.
A Gun Owning Citizenry Is a Free Citizenry
A short primer on the importance of our Second Amendment rights
A Theory of Citizenship
A Theory of the Militia
A Thesis on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Against the Tiers of Constitutional Scrutiny
American Gun Ownership: The Positive Impacts of Law-Abiding Citizens Owning Firearms
Americans Think Most Gun Deaths are Murders (They’re Not)
An Armed Populace is the Bulwark of Liberty
An Individual Right
Armed Citizens A Deterrent To Suburban Violence
Armed Self-Defense Is Essential in a Free Society
Be Prepared To Protect Yourself
Carrying Guns is Preventive Medicine
Congress Shall Make No Law vs. Shall Not Be Infringed
Constitutional Civil Rights Are Not Subject To A Majority Vote
Dangerous, but not Unusual: Mistakes Commonly Made by Courts in Post-Bruen Litigation
Deaths by the use of a gun are cultural.
Did the Fourteenth Amendment Alter the Meaning of the Second Amendment?
Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?
Do the Bible and Our Constitution Agree That We Have “A Right to Bear Arms”?
Enemies Domestic 1
Enemies Domestic 2
Enemies Domestic 3
Examining the Race Effects of Stand Your Ground Laws
Firearms Possession By “Non-State Actors”
Five Takes on New York Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen
Four Things You Need To Know About Our US Constitution
Freedom is won and can be maintained only by force of arms: part 1
Freedom is won and can be maintained only by force of arms: part 2
Freedom is won and can be maintained only by force of arms: part 3
Freedom is won and can be maintained only by force of arms: part 4
Freedom is won and can be maintained only by force of arms: part 5
Freedom is won and can be maintained only by force of arms: part 6
Freedom is won and can be maintained only by force of arms: part 7
Freedom is won and can be maintained only by force of arms: part 8
Greg Wallace | Scholarship Highlight, “Assault Weapon” Lethality
Gun control is psychological warfare
Gun Control Isn’t About Reducing Firearm Violence; It’s About Control
Gun Control Puts Your Life at Risk
Gun Ownership in America: A Guide on its Positive Impact
Guns And Government
Guns Kill People, and Tyrants with Gun Monopolies Kill the Most
How America’s Gun Culture Cultivates Civic Virtue
How careless rhetoric will doom the Second Amendment.
In US History, the right to arms is associated with liberty
Is gun control really about people control? Answer: Yes
Is the Second Amendment racist?
Jesus Endorsed Armed Self-Defense
Lying About the (NO) Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide
Madison on the 2nd Amendment & militia clause
My Advice to The Young
Our Revolution’s Logic
Our Second Amendment: A rejection of nobility
Post-Shooting Procedures for the Active Killer Gunfight
Protecting Gun Manufacturers From Frivolous Lawsuits
Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms
Restrictions That ‘Our Ancestors Would Never Have Accepted’: The Historical Case Against Assault Weapon Bans
Revisiting RAND’s Gun Law Research Review
SCOTUS RKBA CASES LINKS
Second Amendment Originalism is Only Difficult to Determine If You’re Willfully Ignorant
Second Amendment professor’s brief in Supreme Court right to bear arms case
Second Amendment: Revisiting the Original Congressional Debates
Sexual Dysfunction and Gun Ownership in America: When Hard Data Meet a Limp Theory
Stop Treating the Second Amendment as a Second-Class Right
Studies Find No Evidence That Assault Weapon Bans Reduce Homicide Rates
Study Finds Homicide Victims Tend To Be Criminals Too
Tench Coxe and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
The Concrete Second Amendment
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, What It Said and Meant
The Effectiveness of Gun Control Legislation: A Comparative Study
The Ethics of ‘Gun-Free Zones’
The Government’s Own Study Concluded Its Ban on ‘Assault Weapons’ Didn’t Reduce Gun Violence
The gun guy and illegal militia founder who became President.
The Harms of the Federal Felon-in-Possession Ban in a Post-Heller World
The History of Bans on Types of Arms Before 1900
The Individual Right To Bear Arms For Common Defense
The meaning of the phrase “well-regulated” in the 2nd amendment
The Militia of the Sea
The Moral Case for Gun Ownership
The National Firearms Act is an Unconstitutional Tax
The Natural Law as a Restraint Against Tyranny
The Natural Right of Self-Defense
The Origin of an Armed Citizenry
The Quantitative and Qualitative Superiority of Armed Self-Defense
The Reality of American Violence
The Right to Armed Self-Defense in the Light of Law Enforcement Abdication
The Right to Bear Arms in Historical Context
The Right To Keep And Bear Arms 1
The Right To Keep And Bear Arms 2
The Right to Prompt Access to Guns in a Time of Unrest
The Right to Train: A Pillar of the Second Amendment
The Rise and Demise of the Collective Right Interpretation of the Second Amendment
The Second Amendment assumes a moral people
The Second Amendment Hasn’t Been Misinterpreted
The Second Amendment Rights of Young People
The Second Amendment Was Always Understood to be an Individual Right
The Second Amendment: Scope and Criminological Considerations
The State’s Monopoly of Force and the Right to Bear Arms
The Torah and Self-Defense
The Virtue of Gun Ownership and the Decline of Manliness
The Well-Regulated Militia
TO KEEP AND BEAR THEIR PRIVATE ARMS – Stephen Halbrook
To Whom Does The Country Belong: The People Or The Government? Part 1
Tyranny can only be prevented by an armed population
Unbannable Arms?
Understanding and Misunderstanding American Gun Culture and Violence
Warren Burger Was Wrong: 19th Century Sources Confirm the 2nd Amendment Protects an Individual Right
Well Regulated: The NFA hearings 1
Well Regulated: The NFA hearings 2
Well Regulated: The NFA hearings 3
Well Regulated: The NFA hearings 4
What arms are “common”?
What Economists Can’t Tell You About the Costs of Gun Violence
What is a ‘Well Regulated’ Militia, Anyway?
What the Framers intended: A linguistic analysis of the “Right to Bear Arms”
What Were The Founding Principles?
Why Leftists Keep Lying About The Second Amendment