{"id":66194,"date":"2021-03-25T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66194"},"modified":"2021-03-25T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:07:33","slug":"66194","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66194","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Time to Stand Up for the Second Amendment More than Ever.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cRahm Emanuel, call your office. You said it\u2014\u2018Never let a serious crisis go to waste!\u2019 And we got one, baby\u2014two<\/em>\u00a0white supremacists<\/em>\u00a0shooting up the joint in\u00a0Atlanta<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Boulder<\/a>. The president\u2019s into it already. Bye-bye assault weapons and those thousand round mags Hollywood lefties love to show off in their movies. We might even get \u2018im to ban cap\u00a0guns<\/a>\u00a0by executive order. \u2026 What? He wasn\u2019t a white supremacist? His name was\u00a0Al<\/em>-what? \u2026 Like Al Ky-Duh? \u2026 They wiped his page off Facebook? \u2026 Why\u2019d they do that? \u2026 Zuck must\u2019ve had a good reason. Anyway, what about the guy in Atlanta? He was offing Asian girls in a massage parlor. What\u2019s more white supremacist than that? \u2026 Yeah, yeah, Harvard and Yale. They\u2019re the real ani-Asian racists but \u2026 Sex addict? \u2026 Sex addict! \u2026 Andrew Cuomo didn\u2019t kill anybody \u2026 or did he?\u201d<\/p>\n

You get the idea.<\/p>\n

That might be the beginning of a stand-up act bya conservative comic, a tryout anyway, in a provincial city, but these are the days we are living in\u2014more insane by the minute.<\/p>\n

It is, however, the very moment we must stand up for the\u00a0Second Amendment<\/a>\u00a0more than ever.<\/p>\n

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Liberals (oh, how I despise that misuse of the English language) and progressives (ditto) tend to think of it as an outdated 18th Century idea mainly of value to hunters, gun collectors and firing range enthusiasts that is now risking everyone\u2019s lives and allowing criminals free rein. (The latter is what\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0do, but we won\u2019t get into that.)<\/p>\n

Since I don\u2019t hunt and don\u2019t get to the range as much as I\u2019d like, a deeper rationale is considerably more significant to me\u2014the Framers\u2019 desire for private citizens, free individuals, to be able to protect themselves from oppressive government power, whether that be monarchical or, in modern times, communist, fascist, oligarchic or even from the hands of those who\u00a0think\u00a0<\/em>they are \u201cgood,\u201d what I call \u201cmoral narcissists<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liberals pooh-pooh this idea, of course. The state is great thing to them\u2014it\u2019s \u201cprogressive\u201d\u2014 especially when it\u2019s on their side.<\/p>\n

But when I hear all this talk, as we\u2019re hearing now, of executive orders to outlaw or even take away guns for the good of the public, I am reminded of what happened in Germany in 1938, when members of the Nazi Party were allowed to have weapons but\u00a0Jews were prevented from keeping them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some say that prefigured the Holocaust only a few years off (others debate this\u2014don\u2019t they always?) But it\u2019s hard to say why disarming people wouldn\u2019t make it easier to load them in railroad cars.<\/p>\n

But closer to home, I\u2019ve always wondered why Chicago, with some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, almost always has the most gun violence. Their homicide rate skyrocketed in 2020 with 769 deaths. (I could give reasons, like the decline of the family, but I will let that pass for now.)<\/p>\n

Similarly, Paris, with even more stringent gun laws, has had yet more calamitous attacks, including on the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo and the 2015 Bataclan Theater massacre when 130 people were killed and and a staggering 416 more injured.<\/p>\n

Of course, those were jihadists. That never happens in the United States\u2026. Oh, wait.<\/p>\n

Well, it never happens if you hide when it does as quickly as possible. And, of course, it depends on what your definition of a jihadist is. But if you, as in the case of Boulder mass murderer Ahmad Al-Issa, quickly insist this is entirely a mental health issue, I have a question to ask.<\/p>\n

Do you think ISIS is entirely sane when they behead innocent people, put their severed heads on sticks and parade them on television? I hope that\u2019s not sane, because otherwise I don\u2019t know what the definition is.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, if you want a grim laugh, in the dark comedy sense, check out the exchange of accusatory and then backtracking liberal\/progressive tweets\u00a0ZeroHedge<\/a>\u00a0found on Twitter about the Boulder event. As ZH\u2019s Tyler Durden dryly notes of the horrendous shooting spree, \u201cexpect this not to be classified as terrorism, and the motive to remain unclear for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, careerist politicians like our vice president will continue to claim the Atlanta killings were racist acts when everyone personally involved so far insists Robert Long was motivated by shame for his sexual addiction.<\/p>\n

By calling this racism is Ms. Harris looking to gin up the Asian American vote, a significant amount of which was lost to Trump the last go-round?.\u2026 How could you say such a thing, Simon?<\/p>\n

Because that\u2019s what they do. Political pro Dick Morris said much the same on Greg Kelly\u2019s Newsmax show last night.<\/p>\n

What\u00a0we<\/em>\u00a0must do is remain staunch in our defense of the Second Amendment. Years ago I will admit I waffled occasionally, giving them this and that in the hopes it would mollify. No more. Every time the Bidens of the world come out to exploit tragedies like these, I get stronger in my defense of the Second. Now I\u2019m like an ox. I might even turn into a gun nut.<\/p>\n

What we should do to minimize these tragedies is examine the causes and try to intervene before these people can act.<\/p>\n

This is not easy for a variety of reasons, but plenty of clues hide in plain sight, the most obvious place being social media, even when, actually especially when, pages are taken down by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg for reasons that are unclear but suspicious.<\/p>\n

Mr. Zuckerberg, or whoever might be instructing him in this regard, doesn\u2019t believe the public has a right to know what the perpetrator of acts like this said and thought. We, the great unwashed, must be shielded from information we could\u2019ve looked at with impunity the day before, had we known about it.<\/p>\n

Maybe we should ban Facebook instead of guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to Stand Up for the Second Amendment More than Ever. \u201cRahm Emanuel, call your office. You said it\u2014\u2018Never let a serious crisis go to waste!\u2019 And we got one, baby\u2014two\u00a0white supremacists\u00a0shooting up the joint in\u00a0Atlanta\u00a0and\u00a0Boulder. The president\u2019s into it already. Bye-bye assault weapons and those thousand round mags Hollywood lefties love to show off … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66195,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66194\/revisions\/66195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}