National 2A protections need to be mandated unto the states so that citizens across all of America can have their right to self defense restored. The 2nd Amendment exists but like the 1st, it's being shredded into bits before our eyes. Need a federal mandate that ensures the 2nd can't be trifled with on a state level.
I hope that includes making null and void all Acts, bills, etc related to gun control. e.g. NFA of 1934, GCA in the 60s, Hughes Amendment in 1986 (aka the one that banned the sale of machine guns manufactured after that year to us “civilians”), just to name a few on the federal level.
The 1934 act was slowed to be pushed through because a guy didn’t show in court to defend himself and the gov used it to outlaw short barrel shotguns, etc. Completely against the 2nd of course.
The book ‘Unintended Consequences’ by John Ross details it all in a great historic fiction story.
Perhaps the most famous sentence in all of political history:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
America wasn't fully living up to that even while the Declaration was being written, nor has it ever since. But the stunning, soul-stirring TRUTH of those words fired the imagination of people around the globe, setting off a Great Awakening that continues, after waning and waxing repeatedly, to this day. And America did, indeed, work to live up to the sentiment within the mores of the time, and to change those mores (conventions) to better align with the words of the Declaration, fighting to end slavery and finally succeeding, and more.
America was the beneficiary of that sentence for centuries, as millions here and abroad believed in their hearts -- WANTED and NEEDED to believe -- that here, at last, was a large nation that acknowledged, protected, and fought to PROTECT those rights, for "all men" -- because the truth of our equality (AS human beings, deserving of having our rights respected so long as we respect others -- not as people who must all be given the same income or anything else which requires taking something from another by force if necessary).
America was the Shining City on the Hill for THAT and for that alone. Our growing wealth added to our luster, and was further proof that a society that respected all person's rights was a society that prospered.
Note that our Declaration is clear that ALL MEN (meaning "ALL PEOPLE") -- even NON-AMERICANS -- deserve to be treated with respect. Some rights -- the right to American citizenship, in particular -- are reserved to the American people and to those the nation grants citizenship to, an important process that must ensure new citizens understand and agree to ALSO respect the rights of others and to obey her laws.
But the right to be treated as a human being, worthy of honest and decent treatment until proven otherwise, should and must remain a core value, lest we become something less than what we all hope and expect America to be.
A further note: if America is, indeed, a Christian nation -- and despite not every Founder and certainly not every citizen being a self-identified or practicing Christian -- America WAS (for the most part) founded on principles consonant with Christianity.
Treatment of ALL humans as worthy of respect (again, until proven otherwise) is the bedrock principle that America MUST cling to.
I view these two verses as ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT to the first sentence of the American Declaration of Independence -- and that, I believe, is why that sentence has such power:
John: 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
"American citizens across all of America"
And those who are not citizens are not granted those rights.
We also need local militias, which is another part of the 2nd amendment that the constitution grants us.
National 2A protections need to be mandated unto the states so that citizens across all of America can have their right to self defense restored. The 2nd Amendment exists but like the 1st, it's being shredded into bits before our eyes. Need a federal mandate that ensures the 2nd can't be trifled with on a state level.
I hope that includes making null and void all Acts, bills, etc related to gun control. e.g. NFA of 1934, GCA in the 60s, Hughes Amendment in 1986 (aka the one that banned the sale of machine guns manufactured after that year to us “civilians”), just to name a few on the federal level.
The 1934 act was slowed to be pushed through because a guy didn’t show in court to defend himself and the gov used it to outlaw short barrel shotguns, etc. Completely against the 2nd of course.
The book ‘Unintended Consequences’ by John Ross details it all in a great historic fiction story.
I have that book somewhere. I need to find it and read it again.
My neighbor loaned his to me. And threatened me with bodily harm if I didn’t return it. It’s banned in canadaistan…is no longer in print.
It can be found online as PDF.
If anyone hasn’t read it, DL it and do so. It’ll piss you off and explain a ton of what’s happened in the USA in the last 100 yrs.
The White House post - https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1901743761094483990
Trump's post - https://x.com/POTUS/status/1901743539211456594
We need to declare our independence from DC. Their jackboots are on our necks,far worse than the British fags.
Perhaps the most famous sentence in all of political history:
America wasn't fully living up to that even while the Declaration was being written, nor has it ever since. But the stunning, soul-stirring TRUTH of those words fired the imagination of people around the globe, setting off a Great Awakening that continues, after waning and waxing repeatedly, to this day. And America did, indeed, work to live up to the sentiment within the mores of the time, and to change those mores (conventions) to better align with the words of the Declaration, fighting to end slavery and finally succeeding, and more.
America was the beneficiary of that sentence for centuries, as millions here and abroad believed in their hearts -- WANTED and NEEDED to believe -- that here, at last, was a large nation that acknowledged, protected, and fought to PROTECT those rights, for "all men" -- because the truth of our equality (AS human beings, deserving of having our rights respected so long as we respect others -- not as people who must all be given the same income or anything else which requires taking something from another by force if necessary).
America was the Shining City on the Hill for THAT and for that alone. Our growing wealth added to our luster, and was further proof that a society that respected all person's rights was a society that prospered.
Note that our Declaration is clear that ALL MEN (meaning "ALL PEOPLE") -- even NON-AMERICANS -- deserve to be treated with respect. Some rights -- the right to American citizenship, in particular -- are reserved to the American people and to those the nation grants citizenship to, an important process that must ensure new citizens understand and agree to ALSO respect the rights of others and to obey her laws.
But the right to be treated as a human being, worthy of honest and decent treatment until proven otherwise, should and must remain a core value, lest we become something less than what we all hope and expect America to be.
A further note: if America is, indeed, a Christian nation -- and despite not every Founder and certainly not every citizen being a self-identified or practicing Christian -- America WAS (for the most part) founded on principles consonant with Christianity.
Treatment of ALL humans as worthy of respect (again, until proven otherwise) is the bedrock principle that America MUST cling to.
I view these two verses as ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT to the first sentence of the American Declaration of Independence -- and that, I believe, is why that sentence has such power:
Trump can't do that!!! Trump takes a looks at The Declaration Of Independence, yup ,yup I can and will.
Thank you for this post, GDZeus. It prompted me to write a comment (somewhere below) that I have edited lightly and posted as it's own, ah, post.
https://greatawakening.win/p/19Ae3vF8ky/the-american-declaration-of-inde/