“When any nation mistrusts its citizens with guns it is sending a clear message. It no longer trusts its citizens with guns because such a government has evil plans.”
— George Washington
Category: Quote O’ The Day
“By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia,’ ‘the security of the nations,’ and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms,’ our founding father recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy…The 2nd Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason, I believe the 2nd Amendment will always be important.”
-John Kennedy
Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est
A sword is never a killer, it’s a tool in the killer’s hands
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The American people can always be trusted to evaluate information and make their own judgments and decisions. When bureaucrats and partisan activists withhold data to advance a narrative, it erodes trust in our institutions. We must restore that trust. https://t.co/htPwMuk2qz
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) November 18, 2023
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
–Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
— Roman Emperor Tacitus
Samizdata quote of the day – ideological insanity edition
“There is an ironically neocolonial feel to the cultural elites’ absolution of Hamas. It is their indoctrination into the politics of identity that leads them to view Israel as the culpable adult in this relationship and the Palestinians as blameless children.
Critical-race-theory narratives about white privilege and brown victimhood have led to a situation where not only are whites demonised as powerful and destructive but also non-white people are patronised to an obscene degree as non-powerful and pathetic.
This hollow, pat explanation for every political event has now been cut-and-pasted on to the Middle East (despite the fact that Israel is not a ‘white’ country).
The end result? Both Israelis and Palestinians are denuded of their humanity, the former damned as the conscious authors of all ills, the latter reduced to the moral infants of world affairs, whom ‘nobody should blame’ even ‘for the things we do’, in Hamad’s words.
The anti-Israel elites take a far more racially paternalistic view of Palestinians than Israel does.”
– Brendan O’Neill, at Spiked in The absolution of Hamas
The judge’s concurring opinion in a case that enjoins the bureaucraps of ATF redefining what a ‘receiver’ is:
The Final Rule is limitless. It purports to regulate any piece of metal or plastic that has been machined beyond its primordial state for fear that it might one day be turned into a gun, a gun frame, or a gun receiver. And it doesn’t stop regulating the metal or plastic until it’s melted back down to ooze. The GCA allows none of this. I concur in the majority’s opinion holding the Final Rule is unlawful. And I further concur that the matter should be remanded to the district court to fashion an appropriate remedy for the plaintiffs.
Andrew S. Oldham
U.S. Circuit Judge
VanDerStok v. Garland
November 9, 2023
“Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought of as free citizens.
And that’s where the circle closes.
Those who want to deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms are intending to deprive you of your freedom, period.
Like the criminals their policies encourage, these elitists know that it is always best to disarm victims before you enslave them.” — Charley Reese
To ask the question is to answer it………
Quote O’ The Day:
“…, the current politicians who are in office are gutless.”
BLUF
America Is a Christian nation, founded on Christian beliefs and values. I urge you all to understand that, and I urge all of the gutless politicians nationwide to acknowledge it as well.
These values were earned and defended through the toughest of circumstances. They will not be forgotten, dismissed, or cast aside for the appeasement of the delusional left.
Why Can Everyone Celebrate Who They Are Except Christians?
It seems like every time you turn around there’s a new “month” being celebrated. In case you can’t keep track of them, here’s a list:
- February: Black History Month.
- March: Women’s History Month.
- March: Irish-American Heritage Month
- March: Greek-American Heritage Month
- April: Arab-American Heritage Month
- May: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- May: Jewish-American Heritage Month
- June: LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
- June: Caribbean-American Heritage Month
- June: Immigrant Heritage Month
- July: Disability Pride Month
- July: French=American Heritage Month
- August: Transgender History Month
- September 15 – October 15: Hispanic Heritage Month
- October: National Disability Employment Awareness Month
- October: German-American Heritage Month
- October: Filipino-American History Month
- October: Italian-American Heritage Month
- November: Native-American Heritage Month.
El Dorado County, California, wanted to celebrate Christian Heritage Month starting in July of 2024. In July of this year, the resolution passed by a vote of 4-1. However, in September it was rescinded because a group of liberals, atheists, and some in the Jewish community protested the proposed celebration. More on that later.
The month is celebrated by other communities across the nation in July, but it isn’t recognized as a national holiday. Why not?
As you look at the list of nationally celebrated months, it’s clear that not everyone agrees with the values that are being celebrated, yet still they are recognized. So why is it that so many sub-groups, as far as population numbers are concerned, get the approval, but the actual religion that the nation was founded on is cast aside?
A great argument for a national celebration can be found in the “Declaration of American Christian Heritage Month,” which was adopted by the Constitution Party of Pennsylvania (CPPA) on October 16, 2021.
The problem, in my opinion, is twofold. First, the current politicians who are in office are gutless. There is no reasonable explanation for why an American Christian Heritage Month isn’t on the national calendar. The second reason ties directly into the first. Every time the subject is brought up, it’s always attacked. Instead of pointing out the obvious and sticking to their guns, the politicians fold like a cheap suit.
These Sarah Brady types must be educated to understand that because we have an armed citizenry, a dictatorship has not happened in America. These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies.
– Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor
“Any politician who won’t trust you with the weapon of your choice, clearly cannot be trusted with the power he desires over your life.”
– Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith
Those of us who harshly criticize Islamic terrorist groups are reflexively called ‘Islamophobic’ by leftists who inhabit an alternate reality where suicide bombers are simply misunderstood and the people they blow up probably had it coming to them. – Stephen Kruiser
Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider responds to Israeli forces playing ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’
“You know what? Israelis, the assault on the Israelis, people are losing sight of something. People saying that, ‘Oh, the response is gonna be too intense for what happened.’. Well, you don’t get to decide on the response when you do heinous things to civilians. You don’t get to say, ‘Oh, that’s enough, that’s enough retaliation.’”
Happy 165th Birthday
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land. —William Kingdon Clifford
Illinois Gun Owners Refusing to Register Their Firearms
Despite the “invitation” by the Illinois State Police to gun owners holding semi-automatic firearms that will become illegal to own on January 1, 2024 to register them, scarcely 4,600 of the more than 2.4 million holding FOID (firearms owner ID) cards have accepted the invitation.
The bill, which Illinois Governor JG Pritzker eagerly signed into law in January, was immediately challenged by numerous parties, including gun owners, gun dealers, and pro-Second Amendment political action groups. It bans the possession of more than 170 different types of semi-automatic weapons, but provides a “legacy” loophole.
That loophole opened on October 1, and, as of this writing, just 3,000 gun registrations have been received by the police, with another 1,600 “accessory” registrations. That’s out of a total of 2,415,481 gun owners holding ID cards.
The excuse provided by Illinois anti-gun pols was the Highland Park shooting on July 4, 2022, where a mental case (who should have been singled out under the background-check system but wasn’t) climbed a ladder onto a building overlooking the July 4 parade and opened fire.
He dressed in women’s clothing to avoid capture, which explains the lag between the shooting and his arrest.
The pols focused not on the shooter and his mental problems and the failure of the background-check system to rein him in, but instead on the millions of Illinoisans who weren’t at the parade and weren’t involved in the shooting.
The right to defend against unjust force underpins virtually all other human endeavors, and a no statute, norm, paradigm, or custom can deprive a human being of this most basic of rights.
-Toshiro Grendel
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither.
A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
ー Milton Friedman
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. — G. GORDON LIDDY
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
– of all people – Woodrow Wilson