I like this guy’s style and outlook. He’s got a good handle on just about everything.
I’d feel better if his platform actually mentioned what I consider to be the most important indicator for freedom– yeah, I see the photo when you scroll to the bottom of him with a Fudd gun, but some of us need more than that.
It would have helped if they’d posted the winning 2025 papers so we’d see just how thoughtful, perceptive, and promising the up-and-comers appear to be.
This is a heck of a case. Watch this, because he does a good job explaining Gardner v Maryland, where a traveler forced to defend herself got hosed by Maryland violence monopolists..
I want to know why my A-rated Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost did not join in with the other state AGs, and why my two A-rated Republican Senators, John Husted and Bernie Moreno, didn’t join in with Ted Cruz and all those other senators. I think I’ll ask them.
Also, in the briefs I’ve seen so far, there’s one case that’s not cited, and not being a lawyer that seems more than curious to me as it has direct bearing because it was decided by the Supreme Court.
In the infamous Dred Scott decision, SCOTUS made one admission that showed what the court’s thinking was on this exact issue when it rationalized:
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, AND TO KEEP AND CARRY ARMS WHEREVER THEY WENT. [Emphasis added]
Educate a poor non-mouthpiece layman here who holds the simple notion that “shall not be infringed” means what it says and is jaded enough to believe the gun-grabbers understand that, too. Why isn’t anyone bringing up a part of Scott v Sandford that would survive where the rest of the decision would fall?
Hey, as long as he can be trusted without a custodian we ought to be cool with him being armed, but if the feds green-light rights restoration, I think the rest of us deserve to know the criteria they expect us to meet.
As noted many times before, those who have it won’t cede real power unless there’s a credible “or else” attached to the demand. And they’re counting on most of us having too much to lose to jump out of the heating pot.
If Elon Musk Supports the Second Amendment, Why Is X Still Banning Gun Ads?… This correspondent does not worry about it. Elon Musk has already demonstrated he is a Second Amendment advocate. [More]
Democrats end 30-year losing streak in Miami as Trump-backed candidate falls short – Higgins rides affordability push to Miami mayor’s office, backed by national Democratic machine [More]
See, thing is, Higgins wore citizen disarmament on her sleeve, but looking for Gonzalez to fire up the gun vote was an exercise in generalities, saying he was a “strong supporter of the Second Amendment” but going short on specifics, including on his campaign website, where he didn’t think it worth mentioning.
I see some “gunfluencers” reveling in how Democrats are imploding and acting like the midterms will be a slam dunk for Republicans. Follow that line of thinking at all our peril, because as things stand now, people putting money on it are betting bigly that the House falls.
It doesn’t matter that the party platform makes no sense and that it’s candidates are subversives, traitors, and flat-out criminals– you can’t talk reason with No Kings ralliers motivated by prejudice, ignorance, and hate, and meanwhile, organizing gun owners is like herding cats.
Gun control laws disproportionately harm minorities, women, and the poor — the people who benefit most from being able to protect themselves. [More]
Oh, you mean the ones who disproportionately vote for citizen disarmament and Marxists, and who, if allowed, will enable tyrants to drag us all down to their level and worse?
And sadly, it’s hardly an unexpected reaction from the FOP and IACP, with long histories of endorsing infringements. [More]
These LEOSA beneficiaries really expect us to “back the blue” after demanding infringements on our right to keep and bear arms?
Interesting (to me, anyway) story on the graphic– within an hour of submitting my draft to Firearms News, I got the above FOP solicitation in the mail. I did a scan and sent it to editor Vince DeNiro, telling him I was going to print out my article after it was posted and return it to them in their envelope, with a few choice words, instead of a donation.
I had no idea he was going to use my scan as the article illustration and literally burst out laughing when I saw he’d used it.
We know that something similar to what was forced on him, where we suddenly find ourselves having to defend ourselves against a previously unknown threat, could happen when we least expect it. And we know that police and prosecutors will often be personally and politically incentivized to treat us like criminals, and to interpret events to support their interests rather than ours. [More]
As Sir Wilfrid noted, Amanda, “by her own admission, has already violated so many oaths that I am surprised the Testament did not leap from her hand when she was sworn here today.”
