Miguel Faria - The War on Guns

Faith Leaders Speak Out on Militia Extremists

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and the more radical Spanish Second Scholastics, including the Spanish Jesuits, Juan de Mariana and Francisco Súarez, asserted the right of revolution against tyrannical governments. These writers also wrote that standing armies were inconsistent with free governments, and that citizen militias were essential to protect the Natural Rights of the people and prevent usurpation by either kings or even elected bodies. These writings percolated from the Catholic world and in time found a home with Protestant leaders ushering in the Reformation. [More]

So, explain these apostates.

Oh.

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A Short History of the Electoral College

Dr. Miguel Faria notes it is working as intended, even if scheming collectivists want us to think they’re smarter than the Founders. [More]

Know the Enemy

Spetsnaz, Russian Mercenaries, and American Commandoes in Syria [More]

Dr. Miguel Faria give us an excerpt from his book Stalin, Mao, Communism, and the 21st Century Aftermath in Russia and China.

As an aside because this made me think of it, war on home turf is not the romantic stuff of fiction, anonymous keyboard commandos boldly calling for CW2 notwithstanding. I believe the reason we have not seen it here –yet — is because the Second Amendment is working, not just against individual predators, but on a societal level. As Thomas Paine observed:

[A]rms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them…

Our duty is to keep that horrid mischief from taking over. And rejecting the peaceable means bequeathed to us by the Founders that we yet have and doing nothing but rattling sabers and complaining undermines that.

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