{"id":93456,"date":"2019-12-16T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=93456"},"modified":"2019-12-16T07:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:35:03","slug":"2nd-amendment-is-not-yet-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93456","title":{"rendered":"2nd Amendment is Not Yet Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-92883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gun1-300x287.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gun1-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gun1-348x333.png 348w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gun1.png 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that the 1st. condition is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. The second state has a great deal of good in it. The mass of mankind under that enjoys a precious degree of liberty and happiness. It has it\u2019s evils too: the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppression of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/jefferson\/i-prefer-dangerous-freedom-over-peaceful-slavery-quotation\">Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem<\/a>* . Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. <strong>I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.<\/strong><a id=\"footnoteref1_kflfjwf\" class=\"see-footnote\" title=\"Emphasis ours.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/research-and-collections\/little-rebellionquotation#footnote1_kflfjwf\">1<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Unsuccessful rebellions indeed generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.&#8221; &#8211; <a title=\"Thomas Jefferson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/jefferson\/thomas-jefferson-brief-biography\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a title=\"James Madison\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/jefferson\/james-madison\">James Madison<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Paris\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/jefferson\/paris\">Paris<\/a>, January 30,\u00a01787<a id=\"footnoteref2_7dzdyun\" class=\"see-footnote\" title=\"PTJ 11:92-93. Letterpress copy at the Library of Congress. Ford transcription is available online.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/research-and-collections\/little-rebellionquotation#footnote2_7dzdyun\">2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution is not under fire here. It is the right of the people to bear arms, a federal law. We the People are under fire.<\/p>\n<p>It is the politicians who are brainless control freaks, afraid of their own shadows, and who happily assert that people are out to get them, who want to get yer guns away from you. Beto&#8217;s &#8220;Hell, yes, we&#8217;re gonna take yer guns!&#8221; may have gotten some applause from a limited audience, but it simply shows that he is a parasitic slug pandering to the lowest common denominator&#8230; and now he&#8217;s out of the race.\u00a0 \u00a0And can you actually imagine Pelosi ever saying that people want to shoot her when she isn&#8217;t even worth the cost of a bullet?<\/p>\n<p>Be grateful for small things, people.<\/p>\n<p>Gun Rights Watch\u2019s map of gun sanctuary counties in Virginia covers 99% of the state. Note that on the map of states that have gun sanctuary counties, nearly all of Virginia is green, and there is a full list of counties and cities\/towns that have passed gun sanctuary resolutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gunrightswatch.com\/news\/2019\/11\/24\/virginia\/virginia-has-become-an-overnight-tidal-wave-of-second-amendment-sanctuaries\/\">http:\/\/gunrightswatch.com\/news\/2019\/11\/24\/virginia\/virginia-has-become-an-overnight-tidal-wave-of-second-amendment-sanctuaries\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same movement is now underway in Texas, which does not have restrictive gun laws and wants to make sure that things stay that way.\u00a0 The problem in states like Illinois is that the guns on the street in the hands of teenagers are stolen from various sources, including those boxcars parked in the South Side railyards, and handed out like candy to teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>Someone please tell me what business a 13-year-old kid has being in a car late at night, driven by someone in the Latin Kings gang, and shooting and killing a complete stranger, who happened to be a nurse in scrubs on his way to his family\u2019s home with a basket full of laundry?\u00a0 Yes, the cops do have this snotnosed jerk 13YO in custody now but have not given out any other information about him. There is more to come on this, which I will post when it is appropriate. The man gunned down was a good man, per his girlfriend, his friends and his mother. He had NO gang affiliations. He was, in fact, aiming at being an ER nurse to help people on the front lines of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the violence has to stop<em>, <strong>but all the legislation in the world will not stop it<\/strong><\/em><strong>.<\/strong> It has to be stopped by people who are sick of it. It isn\u2019t the guns at fault here.\u00a0 It\u2019s the people who misuse them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible that Northam\u2019s idiocy can get him recalled from office \u2013 yes, citizens can do that. At the state level, it can be done in 20 states including Virginia, and while there is nothing to indicate that the other 30 states have such laws, it may become a necessity.<\/p>\n<p>In the 20 states that allow recall elections, citizens can vote to remove an elected official from office at any time. Typically, the recall process consists of gathering a certain number of signatures on a petition in a certain amount of time. Beyond this, details of the recall process vary by state. The following information explains these processes and provides a list of each state&#8217;s laws governing the recall of state officials. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/elections-and-campaigns\/recall-of-state-officials.aspx\">http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/elections-and-campaigns\/recall-of-state-officials.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of this page is a map of the states that allow recall of elected officials. Virginia is only one of them.\u00a0 In that state, it might be a good idea for the head of the local National Guard units to tell Northam that the Guard is not meant to confiscate legally owned property and that this ain&#8217;t the 18th century, either.<\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/States_with_gubernatorial_recall_provisions\">https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/States_with_gubernatorial_recall_provisions<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Sorry I didn&#8217;t post this sooner, but the discussion needs to be carried far and wide and the emphasis should always be placed on those who try to overturn any Constitutional right that I, for one, do not take for granted. Those who wish to confiscate our property in the form of guns may decide, if we do not resist loudly and often, that they have the right to billet troops in our homes with no compensation, and to tax everything they can see (which they try to do, anyway) because&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Last, but certainly not least, this article contains drafts of two bills the current Governor of Virginia has proposed to support his gun seizures. The part about cutting off utilities seems to be gossip, but nothing surprises me any more. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/johnbwellsnews.com\/virginia-governor-reportedly-orders-plans-to-cut-electric-phones-internet-for-gun-confiscations\/\">https:\/\/johnbwellsnews.com\/virginia-governor-reportedly-orders-plans-to-cut-electric-phones-internet-for-gun-confiscations\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like I said, this ain&#8217;t the 18th century, people.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, there are more of us than there are of them. I think that&#8217;s what spooks them the most.<\/p>\n<p>*I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. &#8211; T. Jefferson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. 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