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This is a good, common sense opinion piece, IMO. -- Dark Brandon

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/vigilant_americans_should_be_armed.html

August 31, 2025
Vigilant Americans Should Be Armed
By J.B. Shurk

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called President Trump “the
gravest threat to American democracy.” Nonetheless, Schumer wants to
erase the Second Amendment. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries calls
Trump a “racial arsonist” and urges supporters to “fight” the Trump administration “in the streets.” Still, Jeffries wants to limit gun ownership and confiscate Americans’ firearms.


Minnesota Governor Tim Walz claims Trump is a “tyrant” who “finds new ways to trample rights” each day. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia says, “President Trump is a tyrant.” Senator Alex Padilla of California
insists that Trump is a “tyrant.” Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon calls Trump a “tyrant.” Democrat lawmakers across the country have repeatedly described President Trump as a “dictator,” a “racist,” a “white supremacist,” a “Russian agent,” and a “Nazi.” They have compared Trump
to Adolf Hitler and other genocidal maniacs. They swear that Trump is
the greatest “threat to democracy” that Americans have ever faced.

Yet every one of these Democrats wants gun control. Even after taking
oaths to defend the Constitution, they actively work to undermine the
Second Amendment. They believe that only the U.S. military, federal
agents, law enforcement officers, and private security details for the well-to-do should be permitted to carry firearms.


Consider this another example of why leftists sound insane to normal
people. Rational individuals don’t prance around complaining about “dictatorship” and “tyranny” while looking for every available excuse to
disarm the public. Historically, when alert citizens feared that a
government had become too powerful or an official had become too
authoritarian, they encouraged their fellow citizens to be well-armed
and prepared to defend themselves. They did not make long-winded
speeches in the town square insisting that the time had come for the
people to hand over their weapons so that the “tyrant” could provide for their safety.

In leftist-globalists’ upside-down world, “men” get pregnant, free
speech requires censorship, we’re all about to die from “climate
change,” and the best way to oppose “fascism” is to relinquish your guns to the government. As the kids like to say, make it make sense.


One thing seems certain: Democrats don’t really believe President Trump
is a “tyrant,” but they are pretty sure that they will soon be back in power. Democrat officials are deliberately riling up their political
followers and legitimizing violence against Trump and his supporters.
At the same time, Democrats expect to exercise exclusive authority over
which Americans will be disarmed in the future.

Why wouldn’t they? Even with Trump in the White House, we live under a two-tier “justice” system right now in which Democrats commit crimes without consequence and Republicans are criminally punished for their
political beliefs.

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When it comes to Democrat plans for gun control, there is no doubt that
those who want to deprive Americans of their natural right to
self-defense anticipate favorable and continuing two-tiered “justice.” Although public debate routinely centers around Americans’ Second
Amendment right to own weapons, the heart of the issue also concerns the
Fourth Amendment — the right of all Americans to be protected against unreasonable government searches without judicially-sanctioned warrants
first establishing probable cause. If Democrats were serious about
disarming dangerous criminals, after all, they would go door-to-door in
every American neighborhood with an extensive gang presence and arrest
anyone illegally in possession of a firearm. But Democrats have no
interest in disarming known criminals. They have no interest in
infringing upon known criminals’ Fourth Amendment rights. They prefer
to target the Second and Fourth Amendment rights of Americans without
criminal records.

So-called “red flag” laws aren’t used to disarm urban gangs (that’s racist!) or mentally ill men who pretend to be women (that’s
transphobic!). They are used to target law-abiding gun owners with the “wrong” political beliefs. Democrat officials routinely ignore violent individuals with the right skin color or sexual fetishes. Democrats
look the other way when illegal aliens are found to be in possession of weapons. Conversely, Democrats force citizens to jump through hoops to
secure concealed carry permits. Criminals get a pass; citizens are
forced to fight the bureaucracy for their constitutional rights. The
more authority that Democrats obtain to confiscate Americans’ firearms,
the more certain it becomes that Democrat-aligned foot soldiers will be
the only people “entitled” to a weapon. Like two-tiered “justice,” two-tiered self-defense is the Democrats’ favorite kind of “progress.”


Since the Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis, Democrats and the
propaganda press have done everything they can to hide the fact that
this anti-Christian attack marked another instance of “trans” terrorism
and have instead exploited the tragedy by renewing calls for gun
confiscation. Democrat talking heads ignore the fact that Minnesota
already has “red flag” laws that would have permitted Democrat officials
to disarm the shooter had his “trans” delusions been considered a sign
of troubling mental health. Because Democrats and the propaganda press
have spent the last decade trying to convince normal people that
mentally ill “trans” people “deserve our respect,” they cannot now admit
the obvious — that violent men who believe they are women are a growing threat to society.

On the toxic sewage dump known as Reddit, leftists are advocating for
more attacks on “white Christians” in order to achieve their dream of national gun bans. As one conservative notes, “If they are openly
talking about killing you and your family WHILE you’re armed, imagine
what they’ll do once they disarm you.” Other leftists are actually
happy that a “trans” terrorist murdered Catholic school children and
hoping that more mass shooters target Christians. The Minnesota Star
Tribune seems primarily concerned about how “trans” terrorism and the murder of praying children will ultimately affect the “trans” community.

For all their talk that President Trump is a “dangerous tyrant,” it is Democrats who continue to embrace violence against political
adversaries. Eddie Scarry wrote an article for The Federalist last week entitled, “Democrats Keep Talking About A ‘Knife Fight’ And It’s Time To
Take Them Literally.” In that piece, Scarry argues that the political
party responsible for inciting at least two assassination attempts
against President Trump last year is “eager and ready to cross the point
of no return.” The Minneapolis Catholic school terror attack occurred
the same day as the article’s publication.

This is no time for vigilant Americans to disarm. We must defend our
families, neighbors, lives, and liberties.


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First we will destroy your identity. Then we will teach you your past
was evil. You will conclude yourself that your inheritance, your
homeland, your ancestors and your people are underserving of it all.
Then we will complete your dispossession and dissolve you into the final
phase of the Kalergi Plan.

“If human equality is to be forever averted—if the High, as we have
called them, are to keep their places permanently—then the prevailing
mental condition must be controlled insanity.” — George Orwell, 1984

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