Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
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The NRA may be flailing and failing for many reasons, but this meme is not going away, it's just starting with "Defund Police" motions going on all over the place in blue cities and the like.
The issue has already been more than raised, as police pull back and/or are defunded
there's private tribal militias being formed for protection
and there's been stories of leftist protesters legally carrying arms
while the feared jackbooted federal thugs already come and go.
The guns are already out there, more per person than any other nation on earth. Legally or illegally, they will be sold and purchased (as cities like Chicago have proven.) "Stop and frisk" type policies are a way to get large numbers of guns off the streets, but the left in particular doesn't like them, because they are targeted at bad neighborhoods they also end up using racial profiling as well (because of systemic racism certain minorities are the majority populace of bad neighborhoods, of course.)
Unfortunately for us globalist types, I think the founders fresh off a revolution themselves were at the time thinking exactly about their federation experiment failing and they really did mean that the ability to form tribal militias should be maintained in case of breakdown in law and order and a breakdown in the e pluribus unum experiment and agreement on common good and agreement on creed.
They didn't have confidence that the federation would last or work out as envisioned and wanted the individuals to have rights to be able to form militias. And it wasn't just about state vs. state, it was about keeping some kind of physical security, the basis of any civilization.
The sticky wicket thing is after that, we fought a Civil War after that to preserve the union and strengthen the federal government.
If you are a libertarian, this is the thinking: you don't like how we are keeping law and order here in the Minneapolis tribe, you are free to move somewhere else and join another tribe with a different kind of security. Because the Second Amendment is maintained, and there is not a national/federal effort to get guns off the streets, the last thing we have to condone is jack booted federal thugs being necessary.
This is why the Supreme Court never wants to touch the damn thing. It's a conundrum since mass transportation and communication evolved. Used to be easily solved by the sheriff saying once you are within my jurisdiction, no guns or leave, that's your choice. Now if one locality outlaws weapons, they are easily available across state lines, as the city of Chicago well knows.
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 6:17pm
P.S. And throw in that whether they intend it or not, many places will end up "defunding" police just because there are no funds, tax revenues are going to fall drastically because of coronavirus economy. And only the feds can print money to pay for security. Or they can give printed money to localities to pay for the security of their choice.
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 6:20pm