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Must we really respond to the “musket” argument again?
Apparently so. It’s all the rage among Democrats right now.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (Democrat) and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (Democrat) both think it’s quite brilliant to claim that, if we care what the framers of the Constitution meant, then the Second Amendment applies only to “muskets”!
In the New York Times, a couple of professors (Democrats, but you knew that) asked: “Is a modern AR-15-style rifle relevantly similar to a Colonial musket? In what ways?” They liked their argument so much, the op-ed was titled, “A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?”
[Frantically waving my hand]: Yes, professors, it’s exactly analogous.
The Second Amendment does not refer to “muskets”; it refers to “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” “Bear” means to carry, so any handheld firearm carried by the military can be carried by the people. Just as the musket was once carried by our military, the AR-15 is a handheld arm (technically, the less powerful version of the automatic M-16) carried by our military today. As soon as the U.S. military goes back to muskets, then muskets it is!
But I’m not here to refute idiotic arguments. These guys may as well claim that the First Amendment protects
See also: GOP Immigration Cucks Crawling Out Of Holes, Despite Massive Base Disapproval
“I think what happened at the border with finding 51 dead migrants in that tractor trailer is what I would call a ‘Uvalde moment,’” Democrat Senator Dick Durbin said of that horrific event in San Antonio, Texas. “I hope it sparks an interest in finding a bipartisan approach to dealing with immigration.” Significantly, the Republican he’s started Amnesty talks with is Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina [Durbin Says the Horrifying Deaths of Migrants Found in a Tractor Trailer Should Be an “Uvalde Moment” for Immigration Reform, by Andrew Desiderio, Politico, June 29, 2022]. Tillis is often overlooked, but he’s quietly built a reputation as one of the worst Republican senators on immigration. Hardly any Republican can equal his zeal in pushing this treason against the Historic American Nation. His continuing influence within the party shows just how far the GOP must go before it becomes a genuine America First party.
To demonstrate just how bad Tillis is on immigration; a little history is in order. As a North Carolina state representative in 2013, he aggressively pushed immigration sellouts. One measure greatly expanded Guest Worker programs that allowed seasonal workers to stay even longer and be available to all industries. When Republican Gov. Pat McCrory vetoed the bill, Tillis, the House Speaker, led the legislature in overriding it.
The Tarheel State’s House also failed pass a measure to crack down on illegal immigration. His chief Senate primary opponent, Greg Brannon, explained:
If Republicans want to retake control of the US Senate we cannot nominate a candidate who will go along with the DC establishment and push through Amnesty. My primary opponent has supported efforts to allow illegal immigrants to skirt immigration laws.
[More money, more problems for Thom Tillis, by John Frank, News & Observer, April 2, 2014]
Unfortunately, Tillis won the primary and the Senate
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Must we really respond to the “musket” argument again?
Apparently so. It’s all the rage among Democrats right now.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (Democrat) and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (Democrat) both think it’s quite brilliant to claim that, if we care what the framers of the Constitution meant, then the Second Amendment applies only to “muskets”!
In the New York Times, a couple of professors (Democrats, but you knew that) asked: “Is a modern AR-15-style rifle relevantly similar to a Colonial musket? In what ways?” They liked their argument so much, the op-ed was titled, “A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?”
[Frantically waving my hand]: Yes, professors, it’s exactly analogous.
The Second Amendment does not refer to “muskets”; it refers to “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” “Bear” means to carry, so any handheld firearm carried by the military can be carried by the people. Just as the musket was once carried by our military, the AR-15 is a handheld arm (technically, the less powerful version of the automatic M-16) carried by our military today. As soon as the U.S. military goes back to muskets, then muskets it is!
But I’m not here to refute idiotic arguments. These guys may as well claim that the First Amendment protects
See also: GOP Immigration Cucks Crawling Out Of Holes, Despite Massive Base Disapproval
“I think what happened at the border with finding 51 dead migrants in that tractor trailer is what I would call a ‘Uvalde moment,’” Democrat Senator Dick Durbin said of that horrific event in San Antonio, Texas. “I hope it sparks an interest in finding a bipartisan approach to dealing with immigration.” Significantly, the Republican he’s started Amnesty talks with is Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina [Durbin Says the Horrifying Deaths of Migrants Found in a Tractor Trailer Should Be an “Uvalde Moment” for Immigration Reform, by Andrew Desiderio, Politico, June 29, 2022]. Tillis is often overlooked, but he’s quietly built a reputation as one of the worst Republican senators on immigration. Hardly any Republican can equal his zeal in pushing this treason against the Historic American Nation. His continuing influence within the party shows just how far the GOP must go before it becomes a genuine America First party.
To demonstrate just how bad Tillis is on immigration; a little history is in order. As a North Carolina state representative in 2013, he aggressively pushed immigration sellouts. One measure greatly expanded Guest Worker programs that allowed seasonal workers to stay even longer and be available to all industries. When Republican Gov. Pat McCrory vetoed the bill, Tillis, the House Speaker, led the legislature in overriding it.
The Tarheel State’s House also failed pass a measure to crack down on illegal immigration. His chief Senate primary opponent, Greg Brannon, explained:
If Republicans want to retake control of the US Senate we cannot nominate a candidate who will go along with the DC establishment and push through Amnesty. My primary opponent has supported efforts to allow illegal immigrants to skirt immigration laws.
[More money, more problems for Thom Tillis, by John Frank, News & Observer, April 2, 2014]
Unfortunately, Tillis won the primary and the Senate
This July Fourth, it’s worth remembering the National Anthem music video that the immensely popular and gifted singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey released ten years ago. It was one of those gloating pro-miscegenation pieces that we’re bombarded with nowadays, with Del Rey and black rapper A$AP Rocky portraying Jackie and John F. Kennedy (with visibly mulatto children), and hardly patriotic. But the point is that the video has done Del Rey absolutely no good at all—she’s still a racist. Actually, she isn’t a racist. But since the Left is now insisting that she is…well, she is. And she doesn’t seem to know what has hit her.
Thus a Twitter user vented over her recent album, Chemtrails over the Country Club:
Lana Del Rey really just released an album and then was a racist in the post trying to say she wasn’t a racist. Just say you didn’t want your album to succeed girl.
And there’s lot more where that came from.
Welcome to race and gender Cancel Culture, Lana. Its enforcers are determined to make you grovel until you accept their terms. And they won’t be swayed by your denials or your professed love of rap.
At an accelerating rate, Woke social media mobs are demanding that leading white figures in the performing arts publicly atone for harming women, blacks, transgendered and other “marginalized” populations. Recently, I described the global “anti-racist” campaign against Eric Clapton for blunt comments he delivered onstage way back in 1976 on behalf of English immigration patriot Enoch Powell. Triggering that witch-hunt was a song Clapton and Van Morrison wrote, recorded and released in late 2020, “Stand and Deliver,” challenging the morality of COVID-19 lockdowns. To Clapton’s inquisitors, limiting immigration and resisting lockdowns are cut from the same Trumpian cloth.
Lana Del Rey, whose real name is Elizabeth Grant, hasn’t accumulated such baggage in nearly 15 years as a recording artist. But the petty and spiteful campaign against her, while unable to cancel her outright, could now erode her artistic identity. Her “crimes” aren’t about what she has done. They are about what she symbolizes: femininity, beauty, white privilege.
Grant was born in 1985 in New York City. of Scottish-American descent. She grew up in Lake Placid, New York. An introvert, she experienced existential dread early on:
“When I was very young, I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone else I knew was going to die one day, and myself too,” she recalled. “I had a sort of philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.”
[Lana Del Rey: ‘I Couldn’t Believe That We Were Mortal,’ by John Ritchie, MusicFeed.com, January 28, 2012]
After graduating from prestigious private Kent School,
In 1995, VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow wrote about America becoming an Alien Nation as a result of (legal) mass immigration. Ten years ago in America, Anti-America, And The Role Of VDARE.com, he said:
This new Anti-America is unmistakably and irrevocably a nation of the Left—of government intervention, taxes, income redistribution programs, racial quotas, speech codes, Christophobia, Cultural Marxist Political Correctness etc.
There are several reasons for this political predilection. They include:
- Reflexive alienation from historic America and against the limited-government tradition that is the Historic America Nation’s political distinguishing tradition.
- So many post-1964 immigrants come from countries with no strong tradition of liberty or the rule of law. One of the side-effects of the floodgate-opening 1965 Immigration Act has been to prove what the architects of the 1921-24 cut-off already knew: national origins matter.
What this means is that Anti-America is attacking all the symbols of the Historic American Nation as evil because they are Historically American.
“First they came for”— in the classic formulation—all the symbols of specifically Southern Heritage, flags, statues, cemeteries, street names, college names, the names of U.S. Army forts, everything like that.
At the same time, Anti-Americans were also attacking George Washington (white Southerner, slaveowner) Jefferson (ditto, plus the lie about Sally Hemings) and, in the frenzy after the death of George Floyd, even Abraham Lincoln’s statues were being overturned and burned.
Blacks have long considered themselves a separate anti-Nation—“Lift Every Voice And Sing,” the so-called Black National Anthem, has been around so long, its original nickname was the “Negro National Anthem.” It’s actually a Christian hymn, and as such would be banned from public performance at schools, commencement ceremonies, and football games—if the Christophobic laws against hymns, prayers, or Christmas carols were enforced against blacks.
Blacks have also now got their own Black Independence Day—“Juneteenth,” now as prominent a national holiday as Martin Luther King’s Birthday is and as George Washington’s Birthday…isn’t. (We’re supposed to call it “Presidents Day.”)
Now there’s a lot of hate for the Fourth of July, simply because it does represent America.
The Democrat-run, 58 percent white city of Orlando, Florida issued an explicitly anti-American