I have no loyalty to the left or the right. Both are corrupt, both are hypocritical, and both are enemies of freedom. The left pretends to be compassionate while scheming to control every detail of your life. The right pretends to stand for liberty while selling out to corporations and warmongers. I hate them both. But I will admit this. Most of my anger has been directed at the left because they are louder, more intrusive, and more determined to micromanage every inch of human existence.
My whole life I have had guns. The first rifle I ever owned was a .22 when I was eight years old. Before that I had a BB gun. By the time I was twelve I had my first AR15. At thirteen I was carrying it into the woods and wasting ammo with friends. We were not reckless. We were taught gun safety in school. That is the difference. If every child was taught gun safety there would be far fewer accidents. In the early 1980s you could go through middle school and high school and still find classes on firearm safety. That was freedom. That was responsibility. And then it was banned.
The word ban is one of the ugliest words in the language. It means taking something out of your hands. It means stripping a free person of their choices. When you ban something you declare that you are the master and the people are the children. You reduce them to subordinates who cannot be trusted with responsibility. Whether it is guns, marijuana, or anything else, the government has no business acting like a nanny. The government is not your father or your mother.
People fear guns because of ignorance. But the truth is simple. A good person with a gun stops a bad person with a gun. That is how it has always worked and how it always will. When danger is seconds away, the police are still minutes away. Those who cry out for bans exploit tragedy to advance tyranny. They parade ignorant people as symbols so they can take more control. Every time you hear someone demand a ban, know that you are hearing the voice of a tyrant.
The founders of this country understood this clearly. They knew that an armed people would always be able to resist tyranny. That was the logic of the Second Amendment. Not for hunting, not for sport, but for resistance. For defense against government overreach. That is why the modern government is obsessed with restrictions. They know that as long as the people remain armed, the government must tread carefully. And yet these politicians and their mouthpieces pretend that they have the authority to tell you what you need and what you do not need. They lecture you about machine guns, about magazine capacity, about so called assault weapons. Who are they to tell you what you need? They know nothing about your life, your safety, or your responsibility.
The left is especially dishonest on this point. They wrap their control in the language of racial justice. They argue that guns must be banned because black people in the inner cities kill one another. They will not say it out loud, but the implication is clear. They are calling black people stupid. They are suggesting that black people are of lower intelligence and cannot handle responsibility. That is the hidden meaning behind liberal gun control rhetoric. I reject that lie. Black people have the same right as anyone else to defend themselves against criminals and against tyrants. The suggestion that they must be disarmed for their own safety is racist paternalism dressed up as progress.
Should there be IQ tests to own firearms? Absolutely not. Everyone has the right to defend themselves. It does not matter who you are, where you come from, or what your background is. The right to defend yourself is as natural as breathing. And as long as people are armed, governments remain in check.
The Wild West is always used as a scare tactic. They say we do not want to go back to the Wild West. But the Wild West was freedom. It was responsibility. If someone broke into your home you defended it. If someone tried to harm you, you stood your ground. That is freedom. Freedom is not neat or tidy. Freedom is messy, but it is the only life worth living.
Of course there are stupid people in the government who enforce these tyrannical laws. Police who break down doors and terrorize citizens because some bureaucrat ordered it. They are the barking dogs of the state. Do we need them? Not in the form we have now. They serve not the people but the politicians. They enforce bans. They enforce tyranny.
The truth is that banning guns should not even be an option. The Second Amendment was not meant to be debated. It was meant to be absolute. Nothing should ever limit it. Because once you allow one restriction, the rest will follow. Piece by piece your freedom will be stripped until you have none left.
Do I love guns? No. I love freedom. Guns are the tools that preserve freedom. Without them, every right you think you have becomes a suggestion granted by politicians and revoked at their pleasure. That is not freedom. That is slavery.
Joe Biden once mocked the people, saying they would need nuclear weapons to resist the government. That statement alone reveals the mind of a tyrant. A president who thinks of his people as enemies and imagines dropping bombs on them is an idiot. The truth is that no government can erase freedom once people are willing to resist. They can threaten, they can posture, but they cannot erase the will of the people unless the people surrender their arms.
That is why I hate both the left and the right. Both want control. Both want obedience. The left uses compassion as a mask. The right uses patriotism as a mask. I want neither. I want freedom. I want the truth. And I will say without apology that anyone who stands in the way of freedom is an enemy, whether they are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican.
Veritas lux mea.
Footnotes
William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), Book I, Chapter 1. Blackstone described the right of self-defense as “the primary law of nature,” placing it above all statutes. His writing heavily influenced American legal thought.
Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for Virginia (June 1776). Jefferson wrote that “no freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” His position made clear that arms were seen as a safeguard of liberty, not a privilege.
James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 (1788). Madison argued that an armed citizenry was the ultimate check against tyranny, writing that the advantage of Americans was that they possessed “the advantage of being armed” unlike the people of Europe.
St. George Tucker, View of the Constitution of the United States (1803). Tucker, one of the earliest commentators on the Constitution, reinforced that the Second Amendment was designed as “the true palladium of liberty.”
Sanford Levinson, The Embarrassing Second Amendment, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 99 (1989). Levinson, a modern constitutional scholar, acknowledged that the Second Amendment was historically understood as a guarantee of resistance to tyranny, not merely an individual hunting right.
Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 86, No. 1 (1995). This empirical study estimated that firearms are used defensively by citizens between 1.5 and 2.5 million times per year in the United States.
Clayton E. Cramer, Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie (2006). Cramer traces the long-standing culture of civilian arms and its role in both frontier life and political independence.