who believe in an all-powerful, centralized state would like to deprive people of the ability to push back against said state? Not to get too doomsday – after all, we thankfully have not experienced this in America just yet – but do not think it is an accident that the worst dictator monsters in history all found a way to disarm the people before beginning their purges. That conversation itself can get uncomfortable for some because we never want to believe things like that can happen here. After all, this is America. We are the land of the free. Khmer Rouge sounds more like expensive makeup my wife would buy than it does something I could ever witness outside of my front door. But governments abusing their citizens is not some abnormality that only happens now and then. Governments abusing their citizens is the history of the world. Americans have never been that keen on government authority and they have rarely had a taste for government restricting their 2nd Amendment rights. But now they have even less faith in the rule of law while the American Left has never been more committed to weaponizing the law. We are not merely separated. We are separated and racing in opposite directions. Keep your eyes on Virginia. It’s coming soon to a theater near you.
Do not think it is an accident that the worst dictator monsters in
But folks who stay in rural America live completely different lives. They grow up hunting and fishing or in the very least have a passing familiarity with firearms. They grow up more physically separated from government services and develop a more independent outlook on life. You see someone broken down on a country road, you don’t wave on the way by assuming they are already on the phone with AAA. You pull over and help. If coyotes are starting to get interested in the family dog, you don’t call animal control. You grab a rifle and handle the problem. In rural country, you likely go to church on Sundays. Your parents probably married young. You do not have Transgender Celebration Day in kindergarten. The ability to defend yourself and the things you hold dear is a goal for half this country. That is a good thing. The problem we have is the other half of the country views self- defense as something best left to others. Some of that comes from simple naivete about guns. Some of it is laziness, as an hour at the range once a month sounds like a chore. But make no mistake about it, some of it is darker and more nefarious than that. Do you find it more than a little suspect that gun-control is universal across the various Leftist platforms? Could it be that the people history all found a way to disarm the people before beginning their purges
Jesse Kelly is the host of The Jesse Kelly Show on iHeartRadio and I’m Right on Pluto TV.
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