Maybe you should move to Justin Castreau's Woke Democratic Socialist Non-White People's Republic of Canuckistan, where we have no Second Amendment. At one time firearm ownership was almost as free as in America.. I can remember walking into a hardware store aged 9, the rifles and shotguns were in a rack in the middle of the aisle, they weren't locked down, I could play with them, no-one gave me any mind... Castreau's purported father Pierre Trudeau and another committed globalist started the totalitarian tiptoe with his stupid Firearms Acquisition Certificate back in 1977; one of my high-school teachers opined the firearms legislation in effect at the time would be adequate for control – if only it could be enforced!
And that, my friend, was in 1977...
Since then? After 47 years of insidious, relentless roll-back of personal rights and freedoms by successive "Liberal" governments? You want to own a gun? You have to take a 2-day course and apply for a licence. Your criminal record is then monitored 24/7 by police computers nationwide; if you are apprehended for any reason, just so much as a speeding ticket, the police can come to your home, and they can take your guns away. You have a fight with your ex-wife... they can come to your home, and take your guns away. Point of fact, all it takes, is an anonymous phoned-in whisper! The police are empowered enter your home, they don't need a warrant, can be any time of the day or night, and they can take your guns away... You wanted (note the past tense) to own a handgun? Even more ridiculous! You had to hold a "restricted permit"; you were expected to keep that weapon in a locked case, AND in a locked gun cabinet with a cable lock through the action at all times, and every time you wanted to take it to the range to practice? You had to contact the Gestapo – pardon me, the RCMP – for WRITTEN permission to do so. EVERY F***ING TIME!
But Castreau? That sleazy despicable little globalist bastard / WEF bag-licker? Think it was June 2022 passed a new law, making 300 different kinds of rifles and shotguns retroactively illegal.. they were perfectly acceptable before: For the most part, thoroughly unremarkable bolt-action repeaters and pump action shotguns...
But not any more! As for pistols and revolvers? They're now illegal for a private citizen to own: Can't be sold, can't be traded. Any you now possess have been "grandfathered"; your estate is to turn them into the government upon your death to be destroyed. Even that Luger your grandfather took home as a WWII Souvenir, even your family's heirloom 19th-Century .45 revolver that belonged to your great-great grandfather! 😡
All of this nonsense of course effects the criminal element not at all and sneaking across that border as the Illegal Migrants have amply demonstrated, is no impediment whatsoever. Very, very soon, the only people to possess firearms in Canada will be Organized Crime — or the Government. Frankly I can't think which scenario is more horrifying.
So give the above some thought Americans: The Way of Canada will be the Way of America.. we're about.. oh... 2 - 5 years further down the path you're on... well, except for California I suppose.. They're further down the path than even we are...
Jefferson said the 2nd Amendment guarantees the other nine. The "bear" in the 2nd means to carry on your person. Your weapon does you no good at home if you're attacked by scum on the streets. People erroneously think the militia is the National Guard. It really means every able bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45. In early America most women carried pistols on their person and would use them if the need arose. Police worship is a sick symptom of a dying society, akin to celebrity worship. The high courts have ruled that if you are the victim of an illegal arrest, you have a right to resist up to and including killing the arresting officer(s). What a joke. Try it and see what happens. If you don't get killed by the cops, you'll be beaten so bad you'll wish you were dead and have it topped off with a lengthy stretch in the Slam. In the Balkan states during the conflicts there, men willingly surrendered their AK-47 assault rifles rather than mix it up with army tanks, armored cars, and heavy machine guns during government weapons confiscation. Handguns and rifles are good and necessary for protection up to a point, but against the might of Uncle Saul and his uniformed henchmen, they don't cut it. The communist slime here know full well it's not the guns committing the crimes and that criminals will always have them. It is standard bolshevik modus operandi to disarm citizens and leave them helpless before predators, private and governmental alike. The Controllers have no compunction about murdering innocent people, that is a given. Yet I'm certain that at least some, if not the majority of these shootings that regularly transpire are fake theater for gun control/confiscation propaganda. This is a very cogent and vital article, Don, thank you.
The last thing we need in this country is more militarized police forces.
Sadly, white coats are even more lethal than blue lights - police only seem to kill off about 2500-3000 a year compared to the 900,000 or so iatrogenic deaths (pre-COVID - God only know how many is a good number today).
Nice piece. You have a very unique style and tone of writing that I enjoy, and thanks for taking us deeper than anyone normally goes on this subject. Oddly as I read the article, I couldn't get the image out of my head of the Australian Police pepper spraying any folks in the face who didn't have covid masks, which occurred after the Aussies lost their guns. Also, amusingly, I tried to google this article on substack, and the first hit was a PBS article from Dec 2012 that clearly has the opposite take, entitled, "How Conservatives 'Reinvented' the Second Amendment". Have a laugh if you must:
This is well put together article Don and a nice history lesson, as well as timeline. As a gun guy, I have to give a hat tip to you Brother. The idea of a well armed militia is the same as a local Sheriff and a Posse. It puts the power in the People's hands instead of an overbearing group of a few bureaucrats that get rich off the People's backs. Of course they will be oppressive given enough time, as the bureaucracy grows.
Either we are going to allow others to murder us and steal or destroy our property or not. If we choose to not allow this to happen, then defense of the person and his property is paramount and must be allowed by any force necessary. All this piddling around does is give the criminals a leg to stand on and the means to do what they please to others.
When I hear about another mass shooting, I automatically think its fake...so I don't even bother to read the msm story. I did watch your show, Donald, with the clip of the dad whose family members were "shot". What terrible acting skills. At first he couldn't remember which of his kids were "shot"... like the Texas parents who didn't know what grade their "dead" daughter was in.
When Civil War 2.0 begins, or just total chaos breaks out...it wil be UN troops we will be fighting.
I feel the latest 2 shootings were sponsored by MK ultra and were meant to cause much more bloodshed then they actually did: Trannie shooting at Joel Osteens mega church and thug shooting in KC - I believe these were government sponsored assassins who failed due to alert patriots called to act:
We would have been better off if the Constitution had had a sunset provision to prevent a temporary patch for the Articles from becoming a justification for a federalist nightmare. Both of the major political parties began as anti-federalist and have gone full-bore runaway acts of malignant federalism.
I disagree. You must be only be listening to (enemy) MSM propaganda, or hanging out in the wrong places. Your enemy will never tell you how strong you are or how they fear you (unless you listen closely). They will never complement or tell you the truth.
As someone who has been advocating for the "radical" 2nd amendment movement since Ruby Ridge, the 2nd amendment has never been stronger. And each event you named has made the resistance stronger.
Ruby Ridge was the first sign or event, and even then there was huge crowds at the scene in opposition to the feds, and was the only reason that any of the Weavers got out alive.
Waco there was also a huge crowd there, and Reno said the reason they had to "end" it was because militia (including our group associated with Linda Thompson) from all over the country was headed there to join with the local militia (who were lead into a trap before we got there) that had already assembled.
There was a huge movement / bump over OKC and every event after that. Why do you think there has NOT been another Waco (because they are afraid of such a clear casus belli)? Why do you think they haven't dropped the hammer yet? BUNDY was a WIN. I guess you missed all the armed marches on capitals all over the country? I guess you have also missed all the push back over covid?
911 has been so debunked (some of us from day 1) and almost anybody with any reason ability knows the official story is BS.
Jan 6th was actually a win, because it showed the true face of the regime (remember the barbed wire?). Many a resistance movements have paid much higher prices for less return. Was it perfect? No.
But resistance movements are not made overnight, and they are certainly nowhere near the majority.
Even the war for independence did not happen overnight, and "was a long series of abuses." And the resistance were certainly a long ways from being a majority. But it took a clear casus belli didn't it?
Guess what? If there is no casus belli the militia is in effect doing its job, no matter what laws or policy the would be rulers proclaim.
I don't recall seeing you speaking out about any of things back in the day, and yes there was venues to do so (fido). Some of us have dedicated our lives to this, and it is a little aggravating when you say we have done nothing or have not made great strides.
Perhaps you should seek out new association, because you obviously have missed a lot of what has been going on, or maybe you are just part of the crowd who will never say anything nice? What have you done your obligation to be part of the well regulated militia (preparedness is a big part of that) and helped others to achieve in that duty besides saying how it has fallen (ignorance or lie)?
I would argue that, "the guns don't matter" ... the possession of firearms cannot secure the Liberty of any man. I think that you demonstrated, that in your essay.
What REALLY matters, is men's 'Will to resist'. That is the deciding factor. You see, the State cannot directly control guns; because guns ARE inanimate; you can't frighten them, or order them around.
But, the State can control men. So, it follows that 'gun control' is really a human process, the aim of which is to make you incapable of resistance to that State's 'authority'. The power of this strategy, was demonstrated amply, in your essay. No-one resists.
One of the State's most effective tools, is the learned-adulation of authority figures.
If you are taught, from birth, to venerate the Soldier and the Policeman, then you are rendered psychologically-incapable of fighting those men. It becomes literally 'unthinkable'.
It's obvious that 'Policing' relies upon the wide-spread obedience and docility of the herd. Police simply could not operate in an environment in which even 5% offered serious resistance.
So, there's the current situation. A most strange paradox, in that American men possess a multitude of weapons, and yet are effectively unarmed ... having been rendered so, at the knees of their own Mothers.
How the Lords must laugh when they hear you chant, "Back the Blue", or "Thankyou for your Service".
Thank goodness those Okaloosa, Florida cops saved their town from a falling acorn. Sure there was a handcuffed man in their cop car but the cops' lives were in danger! The threat from the cop car had to be neutralized! An acorn had fallen!
Good thing that the police are trained so well in the use of their firearms. I wonder if anyone will count the bullet holes in the cop car.
Great article by DJ. The military draft was suspended at the end of the Civil War in 1865. All of the Union troops sent to the Great Plains to kill American Indians were volunteers. After the Civil War and the military draft ended, Americans looked upon Federal soldiers as bums. This was even worse in the South where the locals looked upon Federal troops as murderous bums.
Americans looked upon Federal soldiers and sailors as men who couldn't do the labor to get a real job.
After WWII Americans began to worship the US Military. Propaganda heavily promotes the US Military personnel to this day.
To me, the soldiers, sailors, and airmen are still bums who can't get a real job. They certainly don't know how to "win" a war.
I cut my teeth on political / societal views largely as a result of learning about the post WWII Supreme Court decisions that eradicated and downright mocked the citizen's rights under the 4th, 5th and 14th amendments. From what I recall, the Rehnquist court particularly ruffled my feathers, but I am sure there were others.
“Now, please don’t think I’m suggesting that gun owners take up arms against the government.”
Sir that is exactly what you’re suggesting and that is exactly what happens when free people are forced to resort to the last “box” to assert their rights.
There is the soap box, the ballot box, the jurors box, and finally the cartridge box.
Many are confused about the jurors box. The jury has the duty to nullify bad law, by refusing to convict.
The police are out of control mainly because of the war on drugs, and the easy money that produces.
If jurors refused to convict anyone for any drug charge whatsoever, the police would not have gotten out of control.
But that is a topic for another day.
Likewise has the people stood up to the police over the mask, and I envisioned that scene in the western movie where someone told the bad guy he better have two bullets in his gun and the crowd began to say make that three make that four make that 5, 6, 7, 8 or so if I remember, if people in the crowd had said that when someone stood up to the police about wearing a mask or stood with the store, owner members, the congregation stood up or barred the police entry to the church the mask and lockdown issue would’ve fizzled.
Actually, if men still have the body parts, and the love of freedom and their wives were willing to back them up, they would never have been a need to stand up to anyone because none would’ve dared to have tried.
We had patriots in the military, and it’s clear that the police and sheriffs are nothing more than the military of the local governments. You would’ve never had any of them enforce such a tyranny.
If you see an encounter between the police and one of the people, it is your duty to stop watch and film and be a witness for the victim if needs be.
It is time to remember Benjamin Franklin‘s quote at the sign in the declaration of independence:
“We must all hang together or we will all hang separately.”
Maybe you should move to Justin Castreau's Woke Democratic Socialist Non-White People's Republic of Canuckistan, where we have no Second Amendment. At one time firearm ownership was almost as free as in America.. I can remember walking into a hardware store aged 9, the rifles and shotguns were in a rack in the middle of the aisle, they weren't locked down, I could play with them, no-one gave me any mind... Castreau's purported father Pierre Trudeau and another committed globalist started the totalitarian tiptoe with his stupid Firearms Acquisition Certificate back in 1977; one of my high-school teachers opined the firearms legislation in effect at the time would be adequate for control – if only it could be enforced!
And that, my friend, was in 1977...
Since then? After 47 years of insidious, relentless roll-back of personal rights and freedoms by successive "Liberal" governments? You want to own a gun? You have to take a 2-day course and apply for a licence. Your criminal record is then monitored 24/7 by police computers nationwide; if you are apprehended for any reason, just so much as a speeding ticket, the police can come to your home, and they can take your guns away. You have a fight with your ex-wife... they can come to your home, and take your guns away. Point of fact, all it takes, is an anonymous phoned-in whisper! The police are empowered enter your home, they don't need a warrant, can be any time of the day or night, and they can take your guns away... You wanted (note the past tense) to own a handgun? Even more ridiculous! You had to hold a "restricted permit"; you were expected to keep that weapon in a locked case, AND in a locked gun cabinet with a cable lock through the action at all times, and every time you wanted to take it to the range to practice? You had to contact the Gestapo – pardon me, the RCMP – for WRITTEN permission to do so. EVERY F***ING TIME!
But Castreau? That sleazy despicable little globalist bastard / WEF bag-licker? Think it was June 2022 passed a new law, making 300 different kinds of rifles and shotguns retroactively illegal.. they were perfectly acceptable before: For the most part, thoroughly unremarkable bolt-action repeaters and pump action shotguns...
But not any more! As for pistols and revolvers? They're now illegal for a private citizen to own: Can't be sold, can't be traded. Any you now possess have been "grandfathered"; your estate is to turn them into the government upon your death to be destroyed. Even that Luger your grandfather took home as a WWII Souvenir, even your family's heirloom 19th-Century .45 revolver that belonged to your great-great grandfather! 😡
All of this nonsense of course effects the criminal element not at all and sneaking across that border as the Illegal Migrants have amply demonstrated, is no impediment whatsoever. Very, very soon, the only people to possess firearms in Canada will be Organized Crime — or the Government. Frankly I can't think which scenario is more horrifying.
So give the above some thought Americans: The Way of Canada will be the Way of America.. we're about.. oh... 2 - 5 years further down the path you're on... well, except for California I suppose.. They're further down the path than even we are...
Jefferson said the 2nd Amendment guarantees the other nine. The "bear" in the 2nd means to carry on your person. Your weapon does you no good at home if you're attacked by scum on the streets. People erroneously think the militia is the National Guard. It really means every able bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45. In early America most women carried pistols on their person and would use them if the need arose. Police worship is a sick symptom of a dying society, akin to celebrity worship. The high courts have ruled that if you are the victim of an illegal arrest, you have a right to resist up to and including killing the arresting officer(s). What a joke. Try it and see what happens. If you don't get killed by the cops, you'll be beaten so bad you'll wish you were dead and have it topped off with a lengthy stretch in the Slam. In the Balkan states during the conflicts there, men willingly surrendered their AK-47 assault rifles rather than mix it up with army tanks, armored cars, and heavy machine guns during government weapons confiscation. Handguns and rifles are good and necessary for protection up to a point, but against the might of Uncle Saul and his uniformed henchmen, they don't cut it. The communist slime here know full well it's not the guns committing the crimes and that criminals will always have them. It is standard bolshevik modus operandi to disarm citizens and leave them helpless before predators, private and governmental alike. The Controllers have no compunction about murdering innocent people, that is a given. Yet I'm certain that at least some, if not the majority of these shootings that regularly transpire are fake theater for gun control/confiscation propaganda. This is a very cogent and vital article, Don, thank you.
Don... Excellent article. Thanks for your voice.
As to relying on our police forces (the enforcers for the .001% who they actually "protect and serve"), one would be a fool to call them for anything.
You can track the daily carnage at IncarcerNation.com
The last thing we need in this country is more militarized police forces.
Sadly, white coats are even more lethal than blue lights - police only seem to kill off about 2500-3000 a year compared to the 900,000 or so iatrogenic deaths (pre-COVID - God only know how many is a good number today).
Nice piece. You have a very unique style and tone of writing that I enjoy, and thanks for taking us deeper than anyone normally goes on this subject. Oddly as I read the article, I couldn't get the image out of my head of the Australian Police pepper spraying any folks in the face who didn't have covid masks, which occurred after the Aussies lost their guns. Also, amusingly, I tried to google this article on substack, and the first hit was a PBS article from Dec 2012 that clearly has the opposite take, entitled, "How Conservatives 'Reinvented' the Second Amendment". Have a laugh if you must:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-conservatives-reinvented-the-second-amendment/
This is well put together article Don and a nice history lesson, as well as timeline. As a gun guy, I have to give a hat tip to you Brother. The idea of a well armed militia is the same as a local Sheriff and a Posse. It puts the power in the People's hands instead of an overbearing group of a few bureaucrats that get rich off the People's backs. Of course they will be oppressive given enough time, as the bureaucracy grows.
Either we are going to allow others to murder us and steal or destroy our property or not. If we choose to not allow this to happen, then defense of the person and his property is paramount and must be allowed by any force necessary. All this piddling around does is give the criminals a leg to stand on and the means to do what they please to others.
When I hear about another mass shooting, I automatically think its fake...so I don't even bother to read the msm story. I did watch your show, Donald, with the clip of the dad whose family members were "shot". What terrible acting skills. At first he couldn't remember which of his kids were "shot"... like the Texas parents who didn't know what grade their "dead" daughter was in.
When Civil War 2.0 begins, or just total chaos breaks out...it wil be UN troops we will be fighting.
Don,
I feel the latest 2 shootings were sponsored by MK ultra and were meant to cause much more bloodshed then they actually did: Trannie shooting at Joel Osteens mega church and thug shooting in KC - I believe these were government sponsored assassins who failed due to alert patriots called to act:
We would have been better off if the Constitution had had a sunset provision to prevent a temporary patch for the Articles from becoming a justification for a federalist nightmare. Both of the major political parties began as anti-federalist and have gone full-bore runaway acts of malignant federalism.
The gun controllers appear to have come up with an alternative solution.
Tear down the buildings where mass shootings took place and they'll never happen there again.
I disagree. You must be only be listening to (enemy) MSM propaganda, or hanging out in the wrong places. Your enemy will never tell you how strong you are or how they fear you (unless you listen closely). They will never complement or tell you the truth.
As someone who has been advocating for the "radical" 2nd amendment movement since Ruby Ridge, the 2nd amendment has never been stronger. And each event you named has made the resistance stronger.
Ruby Ridge was the first sign or event, and even then there was huge crowds at the scene in opposition to the feds, and was the only reason that any of the Weavers got out alive.
Waco there was also a huge crowd there, and Reno said the reason they had to "end" it was because militia (including our group associated with Linda Thompson) from all over the country was headed there to join with the local militia (who were lead into a trap before we got there) that had already assembled.
There was a huge movement / bump over OKC and every event after that. Why do you think there has NOT been another Waco (because they are afraid of such a clear casus belli)? Why do you think they haven't dropped the hammer yet? BUNDY was a WIN. I guess you missed all the armed marches on capitals all over the country? I guess you have also missed all the push back over covid?
911 has been so debunked (some of us from day 1) and almost anybody with any reason ability knows the official story is BS.
Jan 6th was actually a win, because it showed the true face of the regime (remember the barbed wire?). Many a resistance movements have paid much higher prices for less return. Was it perfect? No.
But resistance movements are not made overnight, and they are certainly nowhere near the majority.
Even the war for independence did not happen overnight, and "was a long series of abuses." And the resistance were certainly a long ways from being a majority. But it took a clear casus belli didn't it?
Guess what? If there is no casus belli the militia is in effect doing its job, no matter what laws or policy the would be rulers proclaim.
I don't recall seeing you speaking out about any of things back in the day, and yes there was venues to do so (fido). Some of us have dedicated our lives to this, and it is a little aggravating when you say we have done nothing or have not made great strides.
Perhaps you should seek out new association, because you obviously have missed a lot of what has been going on, or maybe you are just part of the crowd who will never say anything nice? What have you done your obligation to be part of the well regulated militia (preparedness is a big part of that) and helped others to achieve in that duty besides saying how it has fallen (ignorance or lie)?
I would argue that, "the guns don't matter" ... the possession of firearms cannot secure the Liberty of any man. I think that you demonstrated, that in your essay.
What REALLY matters, is men's 'Will to resist'. That is the deciding factor. You see, the State cannot directly control guns; because guns ARE inanimate; you can't frighten them, or order them around.
But, the State can control men. So, it follows that 'gun control' is really a human process, the aim of which is to make you incapable of resistance to that State's 'authority'. The power of this strategy, was demonstrated amply, in your essay. No-one resists.
One of the State's most effective tools, is the learned-adulation of authority figures.
If you are taught, from birth, to venerate the Soldier and the Policeman, then you are rendered psychologically-incapable of fighting those men. It becomes literally 'unthinkable'.
It's obvious that 'Policing' relies upon the wide-spread obedience and docility of the herd. Police simply could not operate in an environment in which even 5% offered serious resistance.
So, there's the current situation. A most strange paradox, in that American men possess a multitude of weapons, and yet are effectively unarmed ... having been rendered so, at the knees of their own Mothers.
How the Lords must laugh when they hear you chant, "Back the Blue", or "Thankyou for your Service".
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/florida-officer-mistakes-acorn-for-gunshot-unloads-on-car-with-cuffed-man-inside/ar-BB1ii1B5
Thank goodness those Okaloosa, Florida cops saved their town from a falling acorn. Sure there was a handcuffed man in their cop car but the cops' lives were in danger! The threat from the cop car had to be neutralized! An acorn had fallen!
Good thing that the police are trained so well in the use of their firearms. I wonder if anyone will count the bullet holes in the cop car.
Great article by DJ. The military draft was suspended at the end of the Civil War in 1865. All of the Union troops sent to the Great Plains to kill American Indians were volunteers. After the Civil War and the military draft ended, Americans looked upon Federal soldiers as bums. This was even worse in the South where the locals looked upon Federal troops as murderous bums.
Americans looked upon Federal soldiers and sailors as men who couldn't do the labor to get a real job.
After WWII Americans began to worship the US Military. Propaganda heavily promotes the US Military personnel to this day.
To me, the soldiers, sailors, and airmen are still bums who can't get a real job. They certainly don't know how to "win" a war.
Another fine piece Don.
I cut my teeth on political / societal views largely as a result of learning about the post WWII Supreme Court decisions that eradicated and downright mocked the citizen's rights under the 4th, 5th and 14th amendments. From what I recall, the Rehnquist court particularly ruffled my feathers, but I am sure there were others.
Donald wrote:
“Now, please don’t think I’m suggesting that gun owners take up arms against the government.”
Sir that is exactly what you’re suggesting and that is exactly what happens when free people are forced to resort to the last “box” to assert their rights.
There is the soap box, the ballot box, the jurors box, and finally the cartridge box.
Many are confused about the jurors box. The jury has the duty to nullify bad law, by refusing to convict.
The police are out of control mainly because of the war on drugs, and the easy money that produces.
If jurors refused to convict anyone for any drug charge whatsoever, the police would not have gotten out of control.
But that is a topic for another day.
Likewise has the people stood up to the police over the mask, and I envisioned that scene in the western movie where someone told the bad guy he better have two bullets in his gun and the crowd began to say make that three make that four make that 5, 6, 7, 8 or so if I remember, if people in the crowd had said that when someone stood up to the police about wearing a mask or stood with the store, owner members, the congregation stood up or barred the police entry to the church the mask and lockdown issue would’ve fizzled.
Actually, if men still have the body parts, and the love of freedom and their wives were willing to back them up, they would never have been a need to stand up to anyone because none would’ve dared to have tried.
We had patriots in the military, and it’s clear that the police and sheriffs are nothing more than the military of the local governments. You would’ve never had any of them enforce such a tyranny.
If you see an encounter between the police and one of the people, it is your duty to stop watch and film and be a witness for the victim if needs be.
It is time to remember Benjamin Franklin‘s quote at the sign in the declaration of independence:
“We must all hang together or we will all hang separately.”