Firstly, let's remember what the 2nd Amendment is. It is a prohibition against the US government from making any laws prohibiting the common citizen the possession and use of military-grade arms. Why? Because arms are to remain a 'civil' power -- that is to say, the powers of self-determination and deadly defense have been and remain in the hands of the People. Their servant government has no power to disarm them. Let me tell you something, the 2nd Amendment will NEVER be repealed. Therefore, every attempt is made to twist the meaning and intent of the Bill of Rights from a prohibition of government to a granting of rights by the government. The gun grabbers do not acknowledge the MILLIONS upon millions of law-abiding gun owners that every day do not abuse the responsibility.

And THAT is the key here -- RESPONSIBILITY! Guns, knives, spears, rocks are not responsible for their use, people are. The left constantly reneges on any responsibility, but instead blame guns and the NRA. The left uses victimhood as currency. Strangely enough, most of these mass shooters are die-hard liberals and ingesting government-issued psychotropic medication. Cultural Marxism is becoming the new liberal, embracing victimhood and robbing/disempowering all as a justification. Of course, this lifts up no one but the socialist aristocracy and knocks down the middle-class as far down as they are willing to go before outright revolution.

Most often, when guns are used for self-defense, they are not even fired. Just the presence of arms for defense is enough to discourage the invader and plunderer. If the people were completely disarmed, who knows what attempts will be made on our lives, labors, and property in the name of our security. Government parasites work tirelessly to legislate our powers away.

This was a reassertion that the State militia is NOT the National Guard. Quite frankly, the National Guard is an usurpation of the state militias by federalizing the States even further and blurring the lines to State sovereignty.

True, Mike, but for me I consider even life itself a privilege and an honor. I do not even feel entitled to liberty -- the burden is mine. ;-)

We are seeing this nearly all the time now. Mike's take on 'framing' is more true than we would like to admit... False flags come to mind.

I'm not too sure there is, or was, or ever will be, honest objective reporting. People report on the things that matter to them. Inevitably, the report will be put in that context. Propaganda, however, is reporting for specific ends, favoring one point of view at the expense of all others. In other words, programming. The media is not in the Truth business, they are in the opinion-making business, for whomever pays the most.

1 star for honesty. Thumbs down for believing in it.

Both Adams and Jefferson approved of the government's support of educating the populace. I suppose I am confused as to how the federal government was paid for in those days -- there were no income taxes, and the states paid the federal government themselves via the excise taxes they collected, I believe.

What they may not have imagined was the establishment of a Department of Education that determined the content of the education system which then gets taken over by the enemy and rewrites Americanism entirely until the free republic has been transformed into a socialist democratic state.

Harvard is not the same as when Adams attended!

America is based on Liberty. It was the switch from pyramid hierarchy to independent and local hierarchies. An American is a sovereign person, free and clear from any claims or obligations not agreed upon. He/She is born free -- no debts or obligations can be placed on the new born. Being responsible for his/her own security and prosperity, the common 'man' works to provide for themselves and their community. But an association of sovereigns does not diminish the individuals' status and responsibilities.

We either hang together or hang separately, because apparently the battle for the common man's liberty is continuous. Every trick in the book is attempted to con the responsible person to mis-identify who he/she is, to confuse and subjegate the mind, to instill fear -- shock and awe -- to turn him/her into an animal, a beast of burden, or obedient sheep.

The Libertarian is not a victim of being born, even if born into oppression. It is his purpose to BE and face what there is to face. Just who do you think you are? ;-)

Such Utopian dreams can never happen. There will always be a percentage of outlaws and control-freaks. The goal is to keep them away from seats of power.

Hence the redefinition of 'identity' until one loses oneself in the process. A white man self-identifying as a Latina woman is cheered for 'her' bravery. AND the rest of us, upon threat of government violence, MUST also refer to this man as a woman or else suffer loss of career, fines, imprisonment if we do not support the delusion. The battle for our MINDS is continuous. The powers-that-should-not-be answer the question for us, 'who am I and why am I here?' Or 'what is the purpose of my life?' To get you to answer the way they want, we are subjected to 'education centers' from age 3 to as long as we can take it -- for many, after over 20 years of this conditioning, are mere automatons programmed for service to the State. Personal power of any kind is severely restricted. You may not have the power to resist the State. You may not speak words that challenge the power structure. You may not refuse State medication, drugs, vaccines. You may not promote any alternative to the monopolies in medicine, law, energy, transportation, construction, communication, and banking. You must be 'licensed' to operate a car, to hunt, to work, to trade. WHY do we continue to obey restrictions on our right to work, trade, defend our house and home, what we may ingest, what tribute we must pay? These are ALL contrary to the republic established by the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Before Trump, both the Demos and the GOP were completely in the tank and subservient to the banking class that rules the world -- one Party essentially. They do not care about anything other than the narrative that we need them, not the other way around.

;-) There ought to be a law to prevent the arbitrary creation of laws -- oh, there is, it's called the Constitution!

So explain to me how a federal judge may cancel a lawful executive order for political reasons only? The lawyers' guild has been gradually taking over the legal system of the US, putting judges, not juries, as regulators of government. This is a socialist/fascist mechanism to subvert the republican form of government.

What's the deal with college campuses these days? A bastion for free speech in the old days is now an Orwellian training center. Free speech my a$$. It must be my age but I just cannot fathom all this 'racism' talk and transgender stuff being the focus of higher education. It's a bunch of nonsense. Just what the hell are they learning? Why are minority views considered superior simply because they are in the minority? The hypocrisy is too much. They do not listen to others or even to themselves apparently because if you put all their arguments side-by-side, many would contradict each other.

Truer now than ever. Legacy MSM companies which are not profitable anymore are still maintained for propaganda purposes. Magazines like Time and Newsweek are propped up to help keep the propaganda flowing -- they are expenses in the business of progressive liberalism. The New York Times and Washington Post are now merely for maintaining the narrative for the powers-that-should-not-be. This narrative attempts to redefine anything and everything in order to delude and confuse the common people, to literally redefine who we are. Identity-politics is furthering a victim-consciousness which becomes currency for politicians and the massive communications apparatus that preys upon the hearts and minds of the people, turning them into whining sheep. But as long as there are people who think and reason and question assumed authority, the delusion will not hold.

It is best not to forget that we are at constant war. The battle for my labors, land, and liberty are incessant. I may not have an interest in politics, but politics has an interest in me.

Counterfeiting!! A common tactic in war is to counterfeit the enemy's currency to make it worthless. The British did it in the War of 1812 (not worth a Continental), the Germans did it during WWI and WWII, Iraq was printing US dollars -- the list goes on and way back in history. Massive immigration, also a debauchery of the ideals of American independence and self-determination, thus eroding the foundations of the nation. Fake news -- also a form of counterfeiting, debauchery of truth and facts, to confuse and divide the people. And ALL this to promote global taxation of everyone forever for the privilege of being born. Debt slavery for the people -- it's easy, just treat the counterfeit as real, and inherit the wind.

'Money' is like a battery -- it is a storage of power. As a medium of exchange, it is neutral in terms of morality. HOW one uses their power determines the fruits. Power in and of itself is neither good nor bad, but certainly to be powerless is to be avoided. ;-) How much is 'enough'? Who says? Who controls the issuance of money or even debt obligations? THAT is who the ruler is...

Frankly, if one studied world history from the perspective of central banking, you would very likely observe that ALL wars are for control of a nation's money system. Of all the countries in the UN, only a handful still issue their own currency interest-free.

There are 196 recognized sovereign nations on Earth. In 2000, 189 nations had Rothschild-controlled central banks. But since the advent of the never-ending 'War on Terror,' Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Sudan have been conquered, leaving only Iran, Cuba, and North Korea. Arabic countries have been observing a gold standard for centuries but one by one have been brought into the fold of the IMF and World Bank.

I assert that ALL of the American wars have been about the power over the issuance of currency -- the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, incessant Middle East Wars, and the enslavement of the American people to pay for all this with their lives, labors, and property, perpetually in debt without end.

The US, unfortunately, lost the war against the international banks, and the US military has been used to bring all the rest of the world into line, under the thumb of a central banking dynasty which rule as the true sovereigns over all nations.

Hear, hear! However, the legal system has been monopolized by the American Bar Association (a private association) which has helped to re-write and re-interpret legislation in direct contradiction of Constitutional limits. Lawyers can lose their licenses if they challenge this hierarchy. Jurors are not told that they may judge the facts AND the law, that is to say, may choose not to convict someone of breaking a bad law. It is one of the final defenses of the People against an oppressive government.

Seems to me to be the adjudication most needed in federal courts. At what point did disobedience of a constitutional mandate become tolerated to promote the best interests of the public -- not even temporarily, but permanently?!

God bless Louis McFadden, murdered by the powers-that-should-not-be. Americans have been debt-enslaved ever since.

Drug companies have monopolized health care to the detriment of other options and treatments. More people die from legal pharmaceuticals than all illegal drugs combined. It is against the law for doctors to offer alternatives to their patients -- they can lose their license. (Why is a license required?)

Perhaps in concept, but few voters seem to take responsibility for the corrupt actions of their elected representatives.

Absolutely. This is the basis of the American republican form of government. It may be sufficiently obvious, but the assault on the rights of persons and property has been incessant.