#REDFLAG On The Play! #2A ALERT! SCOTUS, Congress, Biden-Harris & The Press' Simultaneous Assaults

The Second Amendment is under the most massive sustained assualt since our nation's founding, between SCOTUS hearing 'Community Caretaking' as a justification for warrantless gun seizures to HR127 and SB7's #RedFlag is back on the play. The media is playing up every shooting except those they ignored throughout 2020 in Chicago and NY.

Source Links:

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/pilot-hot-mic-bay-area-airport-16049942.php

https://thegoptimes.com/red-flag-this-gop-turncoat-is-helping-dems-take-your-guns-away/

https://patriotunitednews.com/dem-introduces-gun-control-bill-psych-evaluations-ammo-bans-federal-gun-registry/

https://thegoptimes.com/breaking-scotus-news-caretaking-your-2nd-amendment-rights/

https://patriotunitednews.com/heavily-armed-and-in-body-armor-atlanta-man-arrested-despite-ccw-permit-msm-forgets-to-cover-skin-color-on-this-one/

https://patriotunitednews.com/the-truth-about-the-colorado-shooter-the-msm-is-not-telling-you/

https://thegoptimes.com/confirmed-trump-social-media-announcement/

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America is a Republic, NOT a Democracy: Deliberately To Protect Us From Emotional, Irrational Reactions like #MarchForOurLives

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor, David Hogg has said in an interview with 'The Outline':

‘our parents don’t know how to use a f***ing democracy’

I have nothing but the deepest sympathy for the victims of every school shooting incident, myself having come of age in the Post-Columbine era, and having endured multiple bomb threats during my high school tenure in which "Bomb Sniffing Janitors" were utilized instead of the local law enforcement agencies as administrators felt it was too expensive to bring in the bomb-squad repeatedly. Charming no? Gives you warm fuzzies on their priorities back in 2002.





However, the following must be said to the emotionally charged masses of  all ages who are clamoring for an "Assault Weapons Ban" or "Common Sense Gun Control":

The United States is not and never has been a Democracy, we were founded as and still remain a Republic in order to protect our freedoms; specifically from people in your mindset.

There is a wonderful quote of Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Number 68

“The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes. And as the electors, chosen in each State, are to assemble and vote in the State in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place.”

The gist of this is, while granted: is in reference to the electoral college, is a conceit that the American people are and always have been subject to strong emotional responses and reactions. These emotional motivations must be tempered and allowed to cool, there must be separation between the American people ourselves, as prone to rash, calamitous collective action as all men are, and those who govern. This is why the United States of America IS. NOT. A. DEMOCRACY. #FullStop.

Our founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, who so famously is quoted answering a women as to 'What have you given us?' after the Constitutional convention 'A Republic madam, if you can keep it.' did so quite purposefully. In point of fact even the CIA World Factbook describes our government as a "constitutional federal republic" and not a Democracy. Democracy is direct rule by the people themselves and as Greece experienced in the days of the city states, is a failure as a governmental type. The people are prone to reaction-ism and essentially mob rule, where the needs of the many always outweigh the needs of the few or the one, regardless of personal responsibility or individual rights. Democracy is effectively: collectivism, the majority always rules, even (and historically ESPECIALLY) when the majority is stirred into a frenzied state through fear, hatred, ignorance and bigotry. Conversely a Republic is dependent upon the powers of government being restrained by laws that enshrine and protect the individual from the whims of the majority, in practice, this is why we have a bicameral legislature, why initially the US Senate was a state appointed body, why to this day they are re-elected less frequently, this is why the American people do not elect the Judiciary, and why as I've written for TheBlaze.com in 2016: you do not actually, nor were you ever meant to vote directly for the President.

Simply put, America is a Republic, NOT a Democracy: This was an intentional decision by our founders designed to Protect us from emotional, irrational reactionary movements like #OccupyWallstreet, #BlackLivesMatter, #Antifa and now #MarchForOurLives. Your feelings are valid, your loss is real and yes, we care. But men cannot be governed through emotion, we must fix reason firmly in her seat and govern for the good of all Americans deliberately and with great care, for our individual rights and individual protection, and most of all individual responsibility.

Top Photo By Barry Stock - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigleaftropicals/25593049497/, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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Time to poke the Bear on"there was a shooting spree yesterday, so let's chime in on gun control"

By Will Bloodworth,  The HollowNet Contributor

Time to poke the Facebook "there was a shooting spree yesterday, so let's chime in on gun control" bear: (WARNING: long post is long.)

- Are guns the primary issue? Simple answer: no.
- Less-simple answer: The primary issues are mental health stigmatization and a categorical failure of our society's sense of itself.

Will's incredibly safe assumptions:

1) If we make mental health care both a priority of the USA's "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"™ slogan, AND make a clean bill of mental health a conditional requirement of firearms ownership, fewer people will die from mass shootings, and countless fewer people will suffer from untreated depression, psychoses, bipolarity, PTSD, personality disorders, etc. Pay for it with taxes, and I won't complain once.

2) Requiring regular periodic driver license-style testing for firearms education, safety training, maintenance, and even marksmanship training would lower deaths stemming from accidental shootings, theft/misuse of poorly-stored/secured/maintained weapons, and from failed attempts at self/home defense and/or improper public discharge of firearms.

3) Teaching students/adults about the world we live in, and about different cultures, religions, ideologies, etc. will lead to less "fear of the Other" xenophobic violence. Also, critical thinking classes should be mandatory curriculum. The ratio of Islamic extremist/terrorists to nonviolent Muslims is 1:[insert huge number here]. Sikhs are not Muslims. Brown people are not inherently evil. Not every other country in the world is as pro-Jesus, pro-gun, pro-representative democracy, pro-capitalism, etc. as we are. And we need to ensure that citizens know that these things, in and of themselves, are not a threat to our country or our "way of life".

4) Regarding news/pseudo-news outlets: no more making shooters famous. Furthermore, if you wish to self-classify as a "news outlet", you may NOT present editorial opinion as news (and when presented, it must be made clear during the broadcast when info is editorial or factual), and if information is presented without factual veracity, or the outlet is being deliberately misleading, they lose the right to classify as a news outlet. Canada has laws against lying in news broadcasts, as should we. The perpetuation of agendas, fear-mongering and divisiveness pushed by the US' mainstream media is doubtlessly contributing to these deaths. It needs to stop.

There are your "real issues". Not a single one of them would require the confiscation of rightfully-owned firearms, and all of them add to a safer and more prosperous nation. Please share your thoughts.

Note from Matt Holloway: This is an excellent piece of analysis on gun control from a good friend who lacking a better term I will call a "The HollowNet Contributor" retroactive to before the show was even an idea.

Full disclosure: Will and I greatly differ politically, religiously and philosophically. But, I know him to have great intellectual integrity and character. So I urge you all to read Will's take on the knee jerk calls for a gun grab following the tragedy in Oregon. I couldn't have written a response better.

The Only place I really differ, is that I don't trust the medical establishment to act in the public good without policy interference from a Federal Government who has co-opted them through Obamacare.

Orignially Published on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-poke-bear-onthere-shooting-spree-yesterday-so-lets-holloway

Photo Credit By Bbjeter (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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