Category Archives: Gun Rights

Politicians have no Principles

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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.

Governments are Not Necessary

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Is the Hobbesian fear truly rooted in reality? If not, what happens to politics when we allow fear, not cooperation, to become foundational to our framework? Robert Nozick asked these same questions in Anarchy, State, and Utopia. These lucidly written pages extend these arguments even further—with some surprising conclusions.

Aeon J. Skoble—professor of philosophy, bestselling author, and acclaimed political theorist—makes a powerful case that the state as we understand it today is not only morally unjustifiable, but also, thankfully, unnecessary. It has only the power we mistakenly grant it. What if we didn’t?

Packed with urgent lessons, original insights, and unparalleled philosophical rigor, this book is essential reading for anyone who dares imagine a freer world.

Independent Institute
January 26, 2026
Deleting the State: Requiem for an Illusion – eBook, Paperback

I am extremely skeptical. I am of the strong opinion that governments are a necessary evil to protect the rights of the individual. Yes, when they go rogue they can be the greatest infringer of rights. But on the whole, with a well armed populus, they can be a net benefit to humanity.

That said, if the book were available in audible form, I would purchase it just to see what the author has to say.

It’s Too Much to Expect People to be Responsible

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In every clip I’ve seen of Noem today, she’s saying something she can’t know or that is a lie. She also undercuts 2A to say carrying ammo is a problem on its face. I know it’s too much to expect people to be responsible, but this is opposite of a grown-up doing the job.

Mary Katherine Ham @mkhammer
Posted on X, January 24, 2026

It is way beyond having hope of most people to be responsible. Things are more chaotic than I think I have ever seen them. Emotions are running very high. Most people cannot even determine what is reality. Part of the problem is the media lies, selective reporting, and deliberate distortion. Part of it is that many people don’t even believe in the existence of an objective reality. And part of it is that reality is a really tough problem. We are left with people blinded by emotion, without knowledge of how to determine a reality they don’t even believe exists, with deliberate lies as the basis to make decisions on how to interact with the rest of the world.

The dollar is worth less than 1/5000th of an ounce of gold and will buy less than 1/100th of an ounce of silver. The nation debt is nearly $40 trillion.

I just want my underground bunker in Idaho to be finished and stocked before things go really sour.

In Awe of Such Mind Warping Ability

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With the conservative majority’s Second Amendment test requiring states to justify gun measures with historical analogues, Hawaii and other states have turned to the Black Codes to justify gun control efforts.

At Tuesday’s arguments, Justice Neil Gorsuch and other conservative justices appeared reluctant to credit them given their racist origins. 

Hawaii points to anti-poaching laws enacted near the nation’s founding and gun restrictions Louisiana passed in 1865 as part of its Black Codes.  

“They wanted to disarm the Black population in order to help the Klan terrorize them and law enforcement officers in that period in that region. They wanted to put them at the mercy of racist law enforcement officers,” Justice Samuel Alito said. 

“So is it not the height of irony,” he asked Katyal, “to cite a law that was enacted for exactly the purpose of preventing someone from exercising the Second Amendment right, to cite this as an example of what the Second Amendments protects.” 

Katyal said he agreed parts of the Black Codes did exactly that.

Zach Schonfeld
January 20, 2026
Conservative justices reluctant to credit Black Codes in Hawaii gun law case

One has to be in awe of people capable of such mind warping ability that they use a racist and unconstitutional law as supporting the assertion their law is constitutional. Did they think appealing to racist laws would make it more a palatable to the conservative justices? If so, it backfired, but it did appeal to one of the justices:

“So I guess I really don’t understand your response to Justice Gorsuch on the Black Codes,” Jackson, a Biden appointee, told Harris. “I mean, I thought the Black Codes were being offered here under the Bruen test to determine the constitutionality of this regulation. And it’s because we have a test that asks us to look at the history and tradition.”

“The fact that the Black Codes were, at some later point, determined themselves to be unconstitutional doesn’t seem to me to be relevant to the assessment that Bruin is asking us to make.

I have given up trying to make sense of this argument. I have far more important things to do. I need to clip my fingernails.

Experience a Sudden Increase in Posterior Luminosity

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The matter is simple. Hawaii passed a law that, in practice, prohibits the state’s concealed carry permit holders from exercising their right to armed self-defense in virtually any location outside of their homes. Hawaii knows well that this law violates both the spirit and letter of Bruen v. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, the Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark case on public carry. It just does not care.  

Now, the state should brace itself for a more-than-deserved judicial head-bopping. 

Amy Swearer
January 23, 2026
SCOTUS likely to head-bop Hawaii over gun rights

All the reports I have heard say the oral arguments went well for the good guys.

In addition to getting their head bopped I think some other corrective measures are warranted. I would like to suggest all of the following applied as near as concurrently as is practical to each of the politicians who participated in this injustice:

  • Bitch slapped
  • Britches dusted
  • Ears boxed
  • Experience a sudden increase in posterior luminosity
  • Get their hide tanned
  • Have their sit-down region encouraged to reconsider their life choices
  • Knuckles rapped.
  • Receiving a cuff upside the head
  • Taken to the woodshed
  • Undergo some corrective percussion therapy

If they still continue to misbehavior they should be prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Words as Spells

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The meme that the Left uses words as spells to produce useful outcomes has the most explanatory power.

They don’t care about meanings, they just want those outcomes.

Brotherhood @DiggingInTheDi1
Posted on X, January 21, 2026

I can believe that.

  • Gun free zone.
  • From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! *
  • If there are no guns there will be no gun violence.
  • Black lives matter.
  • Believe women.
  • Defund the police.
  • Affordable housing. **
  • Anything-phobic. **
  • Bipartisan. **
  • Climate change. **
  • Common sense gun control. **
  • Corporate greed. **
  • Deincarceration. **
  • Diversity. **
  • Equity. **
  • Existential threat to democracy. **
  • …
  • Reproductive freedom. **
  • Security.
  • Underrepresented. **
  • Undocumented immigrant. **
  • Workers’ rights. **

* From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs – Wikipedia
** The Progressive Left’s Glossary Of Terms, 2024 Edition – Scattered Shots

They Will Not Get Away with That

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You’re just relegating the Second Amendment to second-class status. I don’t see how you can get away with that.

Samuel Alito
January 20, 2026
Gun rights attorney reminds Sonia Sotomayor Hawaii part of United States

And, ultimately, I do not think they will get away with it. I think SCOTUS will rule in favor of the 2nd Amendment being a first-class right. I think Hawaii will comply with the letter of the ruling. And I think Hawaii will keep trying find more ways to get around SCOTUS decisions until they start getting prosecuted and convicted.

Feelings and Imagination

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They claim to be gun free zones. Well if we know anything about gun-free zones, looking at Australia and Brown, we know that they are not violence free zones. They are only defenseless zones where victims are left hopeless, without any hope of defending themselves.

Sam Farrington
New Hampshire State Representative
December 17, 2025
NH Republicans push to allow guns on college campuses

The response from the anti-gun people is telling:

State Rep. Nicholas Germana, D-Keene, a history professor at Keene State College, said Thursday he wouldn’t feel any safer if people coming on campus were packing firearms.

Any police response to an active shooter on a college campus would be fraught if armed bystanders became involved and crossfire broke out, he said.

“All the sudden police come on that campus and it’s a shootout at the OK Corral,” Germana said. “How do police know who the good guy is and who the bad guy is?”

Feelings and imagination. It is the best they can do. But it is enough to keep them going until they start getting prosecuted and convicted.

Sanctions on Countries Denying Basic Human Rights

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Bondi proved that Australia’s gun laws are broken and we can no longer delay fixing them, bipartisan support or not. There is no way that guns able to fire one bullet a second and eight bullets without reloading – which was the capacity of the guns used to kill 15 people and injure another 40 at Bondi – conform to either the spirit and intent of the NFA.

Leslie Cannold
January 15, 2026
Australia’s Broken Gun Laws: A Call for Reform – The Jewish Independent

I just have to shake my head. She wants to restrict the rate of fire to below one round per second? There go revolvers, pump shotguns, and lever action rifles. I’ll bet some people with some bolt action rifles could even match that speed. So, she would have it be only derringers, muzzle loaders, and double-barreled rifles and shotguns as legal guns?

But, of course, that will be considered a feature instead of a bug in her “fixing” of their gun laws.

If President Trump wanted to do some high-end trolling, I think he could get some really “quality” reactions if he advocated for sanctions on countries that deny their citizens basic human rights like the right to keep and bear arms. He should start with Australia, Canada, and England because, as of 250 years ago they had the same gun legal history as the U.S. I would find moving the Overton Window on people like Cannold to be quite entertaining.

Time to Remove this Government from Power

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Anybody who cares about liberty or property rights or just public safety in general, the focus should be removing this government from power.

Tracey Wilson
Vice-president of public relations for Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights
January 17, 2026
Ottawa unveils next steps in its national gun buyback program. Here are the details | CBC News

Some of the details are infuriating:

Compensation payments will be issued within 45 business days of a successful validation of the outlawed firearm. The official said the pool of funding is $248.6 million — which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.

There are an estimated 2 million of the outlawed firearms. The government only plans to pay for about one out of 15 of the guns. That isn’t what they repeatedly promised.

But perhaps they did the arithmetic and figured that was all the money they would need:

Last fall, the federal government launched a six-week voluntary pilot project in the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia to test how the process would work. Officials were confident they would collect about 200 firearms.

Instead, just 25 were collected and destroyed, the Department of Public Safety revealed earlier this month. Responding to followup questions, the department said on Friday that 16 people participated.

If the participation rate is anything like it has been in Connecticut, California, Connecticut, New York, etc. then they should expect about a 5% compliance rate.

I will predict the next election will have a higher voter turnout than usual.

It might even move the talks on the Alberta and Saskatchewan Movements Push to Join U.S. as 51st State a little closer to reality.

Ideology Doesn’t Require Reality

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Communists are always certain of themselves because their certainty is ideological, not factual—and ideology doesn’t require reality.

Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet
Posted on X, January 15, 2026

All successful politicians express great confidence. I do not know how many actually believe themselves. But I know a great many of them seemingly compulsively tell lies. Truth and reality are tough, really tough. So, the more connected to reality and the more truthful you are the less confidence you will express. That gives the communists and liars a big advantage in getting followers because they express the confidence that gives people a feeling of stability in an uncertain world.

The same can be said for anti-gun people. But anti-gun people are mostly communists, so that isn’t adding much.

A Stroke of the Pen and It Is a Right Less Infringed

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Section 1715 of title 18, U.S. Code, is unconstitutional as applied to constitutionally protected firearms, including handguns, because it serves an illegitimate purpose and is inconsistent with the Nation’s tradition of firearm regulation. See N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111, 2129–30 (2022).

The Department of Justice may not, consistent with the Constitution, enforce section 1715 with respect to constitutionally protected firearms. The Postal Service should modify its regulations to conform with this opinion.

T. ELLIOT GAISER
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legal Counsel
January 15, 2026
Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 1715 (or here)

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Boom! A significant infringement upon our right to keep and bear arms has just been removed.

Just on Wednesday, I was talking to a co-worker about this infringement and a horror story directly related.

I am amazed at how fast things are moving in this space. Heller was decided in 2008. McDonald was decided in 2010. Sometime in there Alan Gura told a group of gun bloggers that it would take 20 years or more to get things straightened out. That was difficult to believe. But as the years crept along, I thought perhaps he had underestimated the time it would take. Now, it seems possible.

See also the following video on machine guns. The possibility of restoring that right is actually on the table! And what I find most interesting is that it would not be because it violates the 2nd Amendment!

Strawman Argument and Deliberate Lie

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While the horror of events in Rhode Island sinks in, it is inevitable that, just as night follows day, defenders of mass gun culture across the United States will rush to blame Brown University for not having enough security barriers to entry at the classroom building where the shooting took place.

For them, it is always something else, not the way our nation lives awash in easily available high-capacity firearms, that is at fault. This time, let’s stop the “more security” fallacy before the propaganda machine backing it kicks into high gear.

I am a college teacher, and of course I want my students to be as safe as possible. I have even discussed with students the possibility of a mass shooting event on campus, especially when teaching in classrooms with no opening windows. However, I also do not want students to pay $10,000 more in annual fees to have an army of armed guards in armor stationed at every door or swarms of security drones hovering everywhere.

John Davenport
December 21, 2025
Mass shootings in the US must stop. We need gun control | Opinion

He goes on to build his case against “an army of armed guards.” But other than security guards at K through 12 schools I have never heard anyone suggest anything like what Davenport believes (or claims to believe) to be the case. He never addresses the solution we do advocate. That is an end to “gun free zones”. Let people defend themselves with the best tools available.

There probably is a reason for not mentioning this. I can’t believe it was an oversight on his part. I believe it was a deliberate omission. A form of lie. It is what anti-people do.

Getting Spicy

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It’s time for the American people to organize and to utilize their Second Amendment right to protect themselves from what is clearly become an unaccountable and lawless agency that’s killing Americans.

Michael Fanone
Former D.C. Police officer
January 8, 2026
Pritzker dismisses ex-DC police officer’s call for Americans to use Second Amendment to protect against ICE
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Now they think the Second Amendment is relevant?

Things could get spicy.

Prepare appropriately.

Let’s Call All Democrats Criminals

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Let us concede that gun rights advocates have won the argument: guns don’t kill people, people do.

However, there is a certain class of people that merit a greater share of the blame for the mass casualty events our communities have endured. For lack of a more encompassing term let’s call them, “gun owners”. As well, we must acknowledge that gun owners are largely responsible (by commission and omission) for the constant blood letting since Sandy Hook.

Jude Folly
January 1, 2026
Guns Don’t Kill, Gun Owners Do – The Good Men Project

H/T to Lee Williams (The Worst Anti-gun Story of 2026 … So Far)

It is always nice to get a concession from these people. Now, with this concession, we can focus on the people problem.

Since more than twice as many convicts identify as Democrats as all other political parties combined, let’s call all Democrats criminals.

Agreed, that not entirely true, but the truth arrow is pointed in the correct direction.

Further evidence is this summary by Grok when asked for “All governors convicted of a felony in federal court, 1950–present, by party.”

Here is a list of U.S. governors (or former governors) convicted in federal court of felonies since 1950, based on reliable sources like Wikipedia’s list of state officials convicted of federal corruption offenses and compilations from sources tracking such cases (e.g., Center for Gaming Politics, cross-referenced reports). These focus on federal felony convictions tied to public corruption (e.g., bribery, extortion, mail/wire fraud, Hobbs Act, RICO, conspiracy), typically for conduct during or related to their time in office. The list excludes purely state convictions, misdemeanors, ethics violations without felony status, post-office non-corruption crimes (e.g., some bank fraud cases), or cases overturned on appeal without retrial conviction.

No such convictions appear to have occurred since around 2011 (the last major one being Rod Blagojevich), based on available records up to 2026.

The list is organized chronologically by year of conviction:

  • Otto Kerner, Jr. (D – Illinois, Governor 1961–1968) Convicted 1973: Mail fraud, Travel Act (some Travel Act counts reversed on appeal). Related to accepting bribes for racetrack favors while governor.
  • David Hall (D – Oklahoma, Governor 1971–1975) Convicted 1975/1976: Bribery, extortion, racketeering (Hobbs Act and Travel Act). Used influence to divert investments.
  • Ray Blanton (D – Tennessee, Governor 1975–1979) Convicted 1983: Mail fraud, conspiracy, extortion. Sold liquor licenses for profit.
  • Arch A. Moore, Jr. (R – West Virginia, Governor 1969–1977, 1985–1989) Convicted 1986/1990s (multiple): Extortion, mail fraud, obstruction of justice, tax fraud (Hobbs Act). Accepted illegal contributions and extorted funds.
  • Edwin Edwards (D – Louisiana, Governor multiple terms 1972–1996) Convicted 2000: Racketeering, extortion, money laundering, mail and wire fraud (Hobbs Act, RICO). Schemes during tenure.
  • John G. Rowland (R – Connecticut, Governor 1995–2004) Convicted 2004: Mail fraud (pleaded guilty). Corruption involving gifts and contracts.
  • Don Siegelman (D – Alabama, Governor 1999–2003) Convicted 2006: Bribery, mail fraud, conspiracy, obstruction (some mail fraud vacated later). Sold board seat for donations.
  • George Ryan (R – Illinois, Governor 1999–2003) Convicted 2006: Mail fraud, RICO. Corruption in contracts and licenses (Operation Safe Roads).
  • Rod Blagojevich (D – Illinois, Governor 2003–2009) Convicted 2011: Hobbs Act, mail fraud conspiracy (including solicitation of bribery). Attempted to sell U.S. Senate seat.

By party summary (felony federal corruption convictions in federal court, 1950–present):

  • Democrats: 7 (Kerner, Hall, Blanton, Edwards, Siegelman, Blagojevich, plus others in some lists if including variants like Hall’s timing).
  • Republicans: 3 (Moore, Rowland, Ryan).

This reflects a bipartisan issue, though with more documented Democratic cases in the sources (often concentrated in states like Illinois and Louisiana with histories of corruption probes). Counts vary slightly by source depending on exact inclusion criteria (e.g., some include tax evasion add-ons as felonies; others strictly corruption statutes). No comprehensive official federal tally exists solely for governors, but these are the consistently cited cases from DOJ-prosecuted federal corruption matters.

Do you see the pattern? Again, seven out of ten are Democrats. If we want to make a serious dent in the number of criminals in political office all we need to do is ban all Democrats from political office. And we would have just as much justification as people like Mr. Folly (what an appropriate name) would have for banning gun ownership.

More Guns, Less Crime (again and as always)

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For decades we have seen one gun control myth after another used as excuses to restrict our Second Amendment rights. Yet here we are, when those rights are being gradually restored thanks to strategic court victories, when 29 states have adopted permitless carry laws, when more people own guns and more people are legally carrying them for personal protection, and the data shows violent crime involving guns is declining. Looks like we’ve been right all along, and the establishment media essentially is confirming it.

Alan Gottlieb
November 27, 2025
CRIME DOWN, GUN CARRY UP REFLECTS NATIONAL TREND | Citizens Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms

More Guns, Less Crime. Or, as I have been saying for over 20 years, Just One Question.

Nearly all the information you get from the mainstream media is wrong it some way. It can be incomplete and misleading, it can be exaggeration, and it can an outright lie. I suspect a significant component of this is that society has created an evolutionary environment for this. Highly emotional information gets attention. Attention brings more money. Boring news providers go out of business.

I don’t know of a solution to this. The only partial mitigation I know of is to get your news from multiple sources. And even then, if the sources are all politically (or whatever “tribe” type) aligned you get amplification of the misinformation rather than correction toward the truth.

Reality is tough. Really tough.

Will They Start Playing Calvinball?

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SCOTUS’s current practice of deciding like 50 cases a year may have worked in a system where the lower courts acted in good faith. SCOTUS would decide Bruen, and then lower courts would do their best to faithfully apply it.

Instead, the antigun circuits almost always find a way to rule against the Second Amendment except on the specific issues SCOTUS has decided. The Ninth Circuit is now on its 10th en banc to reverse a pro-2A panel ruling.

Sure, maybe SCOTUS will take the occasional case like Wolford and correct a particularly egregious ruling. But the Ninth Circuit’s antigun majority knows there is no way SCOTUS will grant cert to every antigun ruling, or even a large minority of them. So they’ll keep doing what they are doing, and so what if a few get reversed. Most won’t.

To actually correct this, SCOTUS needs to go back to deciding many more cases each year, or alternatively, issue short and curt summary reversals very liberally.

For example, when the Ninth Circuit (probably) upholds the handgun roster’s MDM and CLI requirements, the Supreme Court shouldn’t need a full cert grant and briefing to explain why that is wrong. A one page per curiam saying there is no historical tradition of such “feature” requirements, and California can’t ban popular handguns, would suffice.

Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Posted on X, December 30, 2025

I would be interested to see what would happen if SCOTUS returned a one page per curium within minutes of when one of these outrageous decisions were punted up to them. An automated AI system could easily do it. If the autopen was good enough for Biden, then an AI should be good enough for SCOTUS, right? Would the lower courts continue playing these games? Or would they start Calvinballing it?

I’m inclined to believe we will not get 2nd Amendment justice until people are prosecuted.

Something Worth Defending

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Wanna piss of a Eurocrat (or a US based wannabe Eurocrat)? Tell them that you spend money, time and effort to be capable of armed self defense because what you defend is worth it, and at minimum you need to survive until backup arrives, with a realistic expectation of the likelihood of that backup arriving and when. Whereas they have made that same calculation: what they could be defend[ing] is not worth that time, effort or expense. Ergo: you’re worth more than they are, by self-evaluation.

Tirno
January 1, 2026
Comment to Little Willingness to Defend Themselves

I’m not sure I would always use this in a manner to intended to piss off whoever I was talking to. There are certain occasions and people who this sentiment could be expressed to in a manner that would give the recipient something profound to think about.

The Warmth Comes from the Fire of Gunpowder and/or Ovens

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We will draw this city closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

Zohran Mamdani
New York City Mayor
January 1, 2026
Bishop Barron rips Mamdani’s ‘warmth of collectivism’ remark: ‘For God’s sake’ | Fox News
Conservatives sound alarm over Zohran Mamdani’s ‘collectivism’ comment | Fox News

Spell checker wanted to correct Mamdani to “Madman”. I wonder if it there is some significance to that.

If you want an economic argument as to why Mamdani’s plans are a really, really, bad idea read The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents-The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2): Hayek, F. A., Caldwell, Bruce, Caldwell, Bruce, Caldwell, Bruce: 9780226320557: Amazon.com: Books

If you want to read the detailed results of a real-world test case of this political philosophy read The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Complete 3 Volumes Collection (Volume 1, 2, 3): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn: Amazon.com: Books.

I don’t want to read any more about it. I want my underground bunker in Idaho*.

If you follow the X post above, you will find the following means and many more:

The difference between the two:

Ricardo Gomes sums it up for me:

* The night of January 1st, 2026 was the first time I spend the night in my underground bunker in Idaho. It’s not really ready, but for this time of year, it is better than the camping trailer. While it will not be completed, I expect that within a month Barb and I would be comfortable here should the need occur. It is not a minute too soon.

How Long Will this Last?

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California’s open-carry ban: Gun law struck down as unconstitutional

California ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional, court rules

I expect it will be overturned within a month. Perhaps in as little as a week.

I expect a request for an en banc hearing will be made. Or possibly, the 9th Circuit judges will do it without being requested. The en banc hearing will overrule the three-judge panel and the tyrants will continue to rule unperturbed.

You shouldn’t get upset over it. Just smile and consider the ruling as more evidence to be used at their trials.