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“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
–Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Author Miles FortisPosted on August 14, 2025August 12, 2025Categories Quote 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 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 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: 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 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

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