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The people who scream the loudest about government tyranny have nothing to say. The same people who fantasize about standing up to federal overreach have vanished at the precise moment federal power killed a citizen exercising a constitutional right.

This is the tell.

We have seen this movement erupt before. When Kyle Rittenhouse crossed state lines with an AR-15 and killed two people, he was transformed into a cause. He was fundraised for, defended relentlessly, and held up as proof that armed citizens are the last line of order in a chaotic world. The weapon was the point, and the violence was excused. The narrative was protected at all costs.

But when a man lawfully carrying a firearm is tackled, disarmed, and shot anyway, there is no mobilization from the same crowd. The difference is not the gun. It is who the gun is allowed to protect.

Because the gun-rights movement has never actually been about freedom. It is about hierarchy and about who gets to feel powerful and in charge. It is about whose fear counts, and whose death does not.

Dead children are acceptable collateral. Dead immigrants are invisible. Dead Black and brown men are routine. And now, apparently, dead armed citizens are still not enough to stir outrage unless they fit the right political story.

Cassie McClure
January 31, 2026
Thoughts and prayers for the Second Amendment

The tell is that McClure left out the part where Alex Petti, who is never named in the article, committed a crime and was in the process of being arrested when he was disarmed and erroneously shot during the scuffle. A criminal getting shot by law enforcement during an arrest is much different than Rittenhouse who successfully defended himself against multiple criminals’ intent on killing or seriously injuring him.

The two situations are not analogous. It has nothing to do with the political affiliation, skin color, or immigration status. It has to do with whether the people involved were law-abiding or not.

The only thing clear in the article is McClure does not have a good grasp of reality and/or is being deliberately deceptive.

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It is my intention to assure the residents of Livingston that we are still a Second Amendment sanctuary county, and we will be paying close attention to the bills that will be coming out of Richmond. I will do my absolute best to help protect those citizens and our constitutional values here in Spotsylvania.

Jacob Lane
Livingston District Supervisor (Virginia)
January 30, 2026
Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors message to the state: ‘We are still a Second Amendment sanctuary county’ – Fredericksburg Free Press

With the flurry of gun control laws being enacted in Virginia this is at least a little bit of good news. I don’t think the whole “Second Amendment sanctuary” thing has ever been tested in the legal arena. But at least it is “a spit in their face”.

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Several niche, left-leaning gun advocacy groups said that since the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, they can hardly keep up with the surging demand for firearms training.

Harmeet Kaur
February 1, 2026
Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing a rush of new members

Surely, everyone can see this will result in making it easier to eliminate the infringements on our 2nd Amendment rights. Some people will be concerned of increased odds for violent civil war. What they probably don’t realize is that once someone becomes a gun owner there is increased rate of those people leaving the political left.

I see this as a minor increase in risk with tremendous potential for good.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.