Quote of the Day
A few Trump Admin officials said some very dumb anti-2A things over the weekend. They got criticism and walked back those statements today. On the actual substantive policy and law, the Admin has generally been very good on the issue, although we do strongly disagree with them on some things.
Democrats, for their part, said some very pro-2A things over the weekend in support of Alex Pretti. But by Monday, they were already back to banning the gun and magazines he carried.
I’d love nothing more for Democrats to truly support the 2A and make the issue less partisan. But that just isn’t the reality. Trump may say things like “take the guns first.” Democrats actually do it.
Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Posted on X, January 26, 2026
Barb and I briefly discussed this last night…
As I told Barb, “I don’t believe politicians have actual principles. They will say and do whatever they think is good for them politically.”
So, you have to either make your desires politically rewarding enough for them to obey the law or abandon all hope of them behaving in a constitutional manner. The judges at the SCOTUS level are better and where I place most of my hope of getting the gun issue straightened out. Hence, I donate money to the Second Amendment groups which appear to be most effective in the courts.
My remaining hope is in creating new gun owners and increasing the enthusiasm of existing owners. Hence, my taking new shooters to the range and Boomershoot.
The collectivist/statist/authoritarians (known as the “Dem-wing of the UniParty” in the US) has exactly ONE principle:
“Maintain power and control BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.”
Lying, cheating, fraud, murder…any means necessary. If it takes the murder of 10 million people to maintain their power and control (including political power, wealth, etc.) they’re just fine with that.
We normies like to say that, “If the Dem-wingers didn’t have double standards they’d have no standards at all.” That’s not correct, since their only standard is “that which maintains our power and control”.
If we can just bear this in mind then their motivations and actions become very clear.
“As I told Barb, “I don’t believe politicians have actual principles. They will say and do whatever they think is good for them politically.””
I have said similar things for many years. In fact, I think it might be the best definition of the word – that “holding an elected office” does not *necessarily* make you a “politician”… and you can tell which ones aren’t by the fact that most of them don’t hold that office long, and often by choice (they don’t run again).
Do judges really have principles? A handful of them, perhaps. But the vast majority of them wouldn’t recognize a Constitutional principle, let alone obey one, if they could avoid it. Justice Roberts is a prime example. Justices Brown and Sotomayor are more blatant and extreme examples of this, and in their case I blame actual dishonesty instead of just Constitutional imbecility.
And this isn’t new; the same was obviously true for Taney, and St. George Tucker documented blatant disregard for the shiny new Constitution when he wrote about it back in 1803.
Politicians are nearly always the worst narcissistic scum. They gravitate to power. Hollywood for the ugly and glib. We’d be better off using a lottery system of qualified citizens in a manner similar to jury duty.
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
Milton Friedman
One of my favorite quotes from a man with many, many good quotes.
1/3 of SCOTUS is better, 1/3 is worse and 1/3 are political weather vanes.