It’s remarkable how the real world always illustrates the Founders’ wisdom, graphically and undeniably. Take the current situation in Iran. It’s a country with a great history, full of intelligent people run by a bunch of backward, semi-human savages with a ridiculous apocalyptic theology that is so brutal it killed 30,000 or so of its own people a few months ago just to stay in power. And now it’s still in power, at least over its own people, despite the United States and Israel righteously devastating its conventional military capabilities. You can sync its navy, shoot down its Air Force, and smash its missiles; the power on the ground requires contending power on the ground. Our glorious alliance with Israel - suck on that podcast dorks – cannot kill every goat molester with an AK-47 and a conviction that the more he murders, the more virgins he gets. That job belongs to the people of Iran, and unfortunately, they don’t have the tools to do it. They are disarmed, and therefore, they are serfs, not citizens, much like the English and Australians. In Iran, the answer to the problem of securing freedom and justice is the same as it is here in America and everywhere else:
Guns.
Guns are freedom. Guns are liberty. Guns are the last bulwark – a real one, not one that enjoys watching the pool boy cavort with his wife – of freedom. Of course, it’s not actually guns that secure freedom. It’s violence. Some dumb people will tell you violence never solves anything. The only people who can tell you violence never solves anything are people for whom the problem of violence has been solved by other people who know what the hell they’re talking about and who use violence to solve the problem of violence. You know, like in America. Only in a place like America can people be so safe and secure and prosperous – something secured by men with guns – that they can belittle and be right those who do the dirty work of doing so. It’s particularly galling that those who benefit from freedom use their freedom to trash the way those who give it to them do so.
And who gives people freedom in America? Well, technically, it’s God who gives Americans their freedom. The right to be free was endowed by our Creator and is not granted at the whim and will of mere mortals in government or elsewhere. But having a right doesn’t mean anything unless you can defend that right, unless you can protect that right from people who would take it away from you. The people of Iran have a God-given right to be free and look at them. They live or die at the whim of a bunch of psychotic primitives who pack heat and have ensured that they can’t. Freedom without firepower is just words.
In America, we are free because We the People maintain the ability to use violence against those who would suppress us. Yeah, the government has cops and an Army. That’s about 2 million or 3 million people who can be put on the street to suppress us, should the government choose to do so. But it’s outnumbered by about 30 to one by Americans with a rifle in their closet. A lot of dumb people will tell you that normal people can’t stand up against a military that is turned against the people, even with privately owned firearms. Hollywood is famous for trying to run down the idea of armed citizens protecting themselves, their families, their communities, and their culture with firearms. But, even putting aside the fact that a significant part of the military is never going to turn on its brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, and friends in order to impose the will of some dictator, there’s no way to get past the tactical problem posed by being outnumbered 30 to 1 by members of a culture that, in its genes, loves to fight.
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If you give the government a monopoly on violence, you give the government a monopoly on power. And that’s exactly the opposite of what our Founders wanted and what our Creator directed. That’s because violence is power. Violence underlies every human relationship. Oh, that doesn’t mean we regularly go out there and beat the crap out of each other. Manifestations of violence are not particularly common here. Some people may have never gotten in a fistfight – sadly, those seem to be senior members of the Republican Party – and others may not have thrown fists since junior high. But the reality is that our system is based on violence. In theory, if you do a bad thing, people with guns will come and stop you or arrest you. And while this doesn’t necessarily apply to degenerates in blue cities, where scumbags are allowed to wreak havoc, while citizens protecting themselves are mercilessly prosecuted, it does apply in general. And it applies in the macro. When all hell breaks loose, Americans have the ultimate veto on government overreach by breaking out their AR15s - I’ve written about how that works in practice. It’s ugly, but no one ever said freedom was free.
And that’s why Democrats hate our AR15s, because it limits their power. The first thing that CIA fraud Abigail Spanberger did in taking office was work to disenfranchise 50% of Virginians. The second thing she did was work to take away their guns. If you don’t see how those two things are linked, you’re either not looking or you support it.
The people of Iran don’t have guns, and therefore, they can’t fight. The people in Iran can’t be free because they can’t fight. A people who can’t fight can’t be free. That may not be how the unmarried cat lady third-grade teacher who forces her kids to celebrate Kwanzaa wants reality to be, but that’s how reality is. If we don’t have our guns, we don’t have our freedom, and the Democrats don’t want us to have freedom. They’re currently giving a tongue bath to Hassan Piker, a guy who says Hamas is great, that the most terrible thing to happen in the last half-century is the fall of the Soviet Union, and that we deserved 9/11. Mainstream Democrats – there are no moderate ones now – are all over him and his bizarre, communist ideology. Think about that guy in power. Think of that guy with no check on his power. Can you think of any reason why he and his pals wouldn’t happily slaughter you to maintain their power? The dude just told you he thought we deserved planes flying into our buildings. If you want to put yourself at his mercy, go for it, but count the rest of us out.
The undeniable fact is that fanatics will slaughter anyone in their path to keep it, but they can’t slaughter you if you can fight back. We’ve seen what it looks like in Iran when a people can’t fight back. It’s a bloody mess. But the best way to avoid that bloody mess is to deter it. The only way to deter it is to guarantee that the killers will be lying dead themselves, and the only way to guarantee that is to guarantee the right to keep and bear arms.
Our Founder understood this undeniable reality. The only people who don’t are either stupid or think you are.
Be free. Buy guns and ammunition.
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