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Gaetz: Second Amendment about waging \u2018armed rebellion\u2019 if necessary<\/a><\/p>\n

Rep. Matt Gaetz told an audience in Georgia on Thursday that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to \u201cmaintain an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to use it,\u201d Gaetz (R-Fla.) said at a rally with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in Dalton, located in Greene\u2019s home district.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Second Amendment \u2013 this is a little history lesson for all the fake news media. The Second Amendment is not about, it\u2019s not about hunting, it\u2019s not about recreation, it\u2019s not about sports,\u201d the 39-year-old went on. \u201cThe Second Amendment is about maintaining, within the citizenry, the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary. I hope it never does, but it sure is important to recognize the founding principles of this nation, and to make sure that they are fully understood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaetz and Greene have been holding a series of rallies around the Sun Belt this spring in an effort to broaden their name recognition among former President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers have both come under fire in recent weeks, with Gaetz being investigated for potential sex trafficking of a minor and Greene being heavily criticized for recent statements in which she compared House rules about wearing masks to anti-Jewish laws in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the rally, Gaetz railed against big tech companies, pointing to their censorship of conservative views on their platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe internet\u2019s hall monitors out in Silicon Valley, they think they can suppress us, discourage us \u2014 maybe if you\u2019re just a little less patriotic, maybe if you just conform to their way of thinking a little more, you\u2019ll be allowed to participate in the digital world,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, you know what? Silicon Valley can\u2019t cancel this movement or this rally or this congressman.\u201d<\/p>\n

A clip of those remarks, which also included Gaetz\u2019s statement that \u201cwe have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to use it,\u201d drew a rebuke from Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who tweeted: \u201cThis is not speech protected by the first amendment. This is beyond yelling fire in a theater\u201d \u2014 an incorrect paraphrase of a now-overturned 1919 Supreme Court ruling that held that opposing the military draft was not protected speech.<\/p>\n

After his Second Amendment remarks, Gaetz joked, \u201cThat\u2019ll be the part that gets me kicked off YouTube, talking about our rights and our freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Gaetz did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while a spokesperson for Kinzinger did not immediately respond to a Post email asking whether he thought Gaetz should face legal action over the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaetz: Second Amendment about waging \u2018armed rebellion\u2019 if necessary Rep. Matt Gaetz told an audience in Georgia on Thursday that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to \u201cmaintain an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary.\u201d \u201cWe have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498","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=68498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68499,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498\/revisions\/68499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}