View from the Right: Tyranny can only be prevented by an armed population

There continues to be no evidence that such a ban would have any effect on the murder rate – rifles kill fewer Americans every year than fists and feet, and knives kill far more -- but the effort to ban weapons with high-capacity magazines is now relentless. All the 2020 Democrat candidates for president listed it as a high priority, and two recent multiple-victim shootings in Georgia and Colorado have brought the issue to a rolling boil once again.

Most Democrats say their intent is to keep “battlefield weapons” off the streets. But the plain words of the Constitution make it clear that the populace was expected to own and become proficient in at least some military-style firearms. Obviously a “well-regulated militia” cannot be expected to be armed with weapons so inferior to those of their opponents that they would have no chance of success. When the Bill of Rights was adopted, the militia consisted of every able-bodied man; today that contingent would include able-bodied women.

Anti-gun Democrats obsess about legal AR-15s and intermittent high-profile shootings with such weapons, but they seem oblivious to the illegal handgun carnage taking place in American cities. They rail against the former but treat the latter as if it were just an unfortunate reality. Why?

The Founders, having lived under King George III’s effort to disarm the colonists before the Revolution, understood that tyranny can only be prevented by an armed population. Would-be tyrants, intent on tearing apart a country, redesigning it and using technology to control every aspect of daily life, understand that as well.

Martin Fey is a member of the Quiet Corner Tea Party Patriots.

It comes down to the fact that the gungrabbers are either deluded by the promises of an end to "gun violence", uttered by the manipulators of the American public, or they are the manipulators themselves.
Their policy is "gradualism". As it was described by one of their operatives, they will settle for "a slice", if they can't get "half a loaf". It's time we impressed upon them and their minions in government that "This frog won't boil". We have to jump out of the pot and spit in their eye.