Revisiting The Second Amendment
Israel is now relaxing strict gun laws "in order to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves." The right to defend yourself is more important today than any time in our history.
The strange paradox regarding guns in Israel
Everyone in Israel is required to serve two years in the military so is proficient in the safety and operation of a fully automatic weapon. Yet, figures published by the National Security Ministry indicate that barely 150,000 Israelis have a personal gun license, or some 2.6% percent of the entire adult population (15-64).
By comparison, from statista,
the share of American households owning at least one firearm has remained relatively steady since 1972. Between 37 percent and 47 percent. In 2022, about 45 percent of U.S. households had at least one gun in their possession.
And those are only the ones on record! As I previously stated in “The Disarming of America”, there are estimated to be over 400 million guns in the United States between police, the military, and American civilians. Over 393 million (Over 98%) of those guns are in civilian hands, the equivalent of 120 firearms per 100 citizens. A whopping 392,273,257 of those are estimated to be unregistered! The average gun owning American has 5 firearms, while nearly 22% of gun owners only have a single firearm.
Obtaining a gun in Israel
A convoluted and intricate process that is off the charts. Even an air soft gun is considered a dangerous weapon! - Former IDF officer Sam, of IDF Gear Review
From The Israeli Ministry of Government Security Firearms Licensing Department:
Preconditions for obtaining a personal firearm license:
An individual who is listed by the Ministry of the Interior as a citizen or permanent resident, and who has been in Israel for at least three years prior to their application for a firearm license. The Firearm Licensing Department can grant a license to a citizen or permanent resident even if they have not spent the last three years in Israel, on condition that the individual has served in the Israeli military or national service.
An individual with at least a basic knowledge of Hebrew – the ability to answer questions, follow instructions and complete forms as required. The applicant's level of Hebrew is evaluated by a firearm clerk.
Minimum age requirement:
A citizen or permanent resident of Israel who has completed compulsory military service – age 18.
A citizen or permanent resident of Israel who has completed two years of national service – age 21.
An Israeli citizen who has not completed military or national service as per the above – age 27.
A permanent resident of Israel who does not have citizenship and has not completed military or national service – age 45.
A health declaration signed by a medical doctor.
Completion of the required firearm training, including theoretical exam and practical shooting requirements, as per the Firearm Training Ordinance of 2018.
In addition to this there are 18 elegibility criteria!
The Realities of Gun Ownership in Israel
From Former IDF officer Sam, of IDF Gear Review:
People visiting Israel think Israelis are armed to the teeth because it appears everyone in the cities has a machine gun slung over their shoulder. They are actually active military in civilian clothes.
However, they are not allowed to even keep the clip with bullets in their weapon. They also have to have an orange or pink chamber slide in place indicating the gun is unloaded.
Maybe that's why it takes, on the average, 30 seconds to respond to an attack?
Active military are allowed to take their weapons home, like on the weekend for example. However:
The weapon while in their home must be disassembled and stored in a different place than the ammo! So much for being ready on a moment’s notice.
Citizens that are able to get a firearm are only permitted to have a handgun with the license being specific to the weapon. No rifle or shotgun. If you sell the gun you must go thru the whole process and apply for another license. You are permitted to have only 50 rounds of ammunition per year.
You must renew your license every two years which includes a marksmanship test. What makes it extremely difficult, is ammo is four or five times more expensive than in America.
Living in a dangerous area such as the villages on the Gaza Strip qualifies you for a gun. However, with a handgun and only 50 bullets, you are seriously “out gunned” by a machine gun with hundreds of rounds.
Firearms and sharp objects were not permitted at the Rave
The ravers were told not to bring firearms or sharp objects onto the festival grounds. They were tired and defenseless, trapped in a wide-open area that offered few hiding places. - Katie Pavlich
Like putting up a “Gun Free Zone” sign in front of a school! The sad irony is those who were not too young or tourists were trained military veterans who would have absolutely been able to repel an attack and defend themselves.
Now that the horse is out of the barn… “An emergency operation, in order to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves.”
In the wake of the Hamas terrorist organization's murderous attacks on Israel, the country's government is admitting—not for the first time—that even Israel's extensive security apparatus can't be everywhere to protect everyone. Under the pressure of bloody events, officials are again making it easier for civilians to acquire and carry firearms for self-defense.
"Today I directed the Firearms Licensing Division to go on an emergency operation, in order to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves," announced National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. "The plan will take effect within 24 hours."
While a citizen can still purchase only one handgun, the limit on rounds of ammunition has been increased from 50 to 100. You still can't get a rifle or shotgun.
In America, we have the Bill of Rights which includes the right to defend yourself, the 2nd Amendment
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
In previous essays I went into detail about the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution called the Bill of Rights Part I and the Second Amendment specifically.
All the others, freedom of speech and religion, the right to a fair trial, no cruel and usual punishment, etc., depend on the second!
The shock on Nadler's face makes watching the video absolutely worth it!
People who have no clue the Founders' thoughts on things, including Biden, smirk at the thought of the people being as well armed or better than the government, when actually, that is what the Founders intended!
“[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.”
– Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28
The Founders despised and feared standing permanent armies. They were under the thumb of Britain and saw how European countries were brutalized by their standing armies. That is why the “Army clause” was put in the Constitution:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; - United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 12
Following Jefferson’s advice, “instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed," let's examine some quotes from Founders who were certainly there when the Bill of Rights was created:
"The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” - Samuel Adams (emphasis mine)
"The great objective is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun." - Patrick Henry
“Americans have "the advantage of being armed" -- unlike the citizens of other countries where "the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." - James Madison
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops. – Noah Webster
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. - Joseph Story
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.” - Tench Coxe (emphasis mine)
The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them. - Zechariah Johnson
The idea of individuals having guns for their protection, families and property is pretty consistent. That guns are to be passed out then collected again to be stored in an armory after your service in the militia would seem totally ridiculous and absurd to these men.
Therefore, all gun laws are actually unconstitutional
The truth is, the intentions of those who debated, wrote and passed the Second Amendment are clear: The purpose of the amendment is to protect individual liberty by, in part, stopping the federal government from instituting gun restrictions of any kind, because America’s founders wanted to ensure citizens had the ability to defend themselves against a tyrannical national government and other domestic threats, as well as from foreign invaders.
All state gun laws are unconstitutional
Every state Constitution contains a clause that the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
It contains the 2nd Amendment.
It contains the 9th Amendment which states:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Since the 2nd Amendment is a right enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, a state is violating its own Constitution and the U.S. Constitution by passing gun laws. Period!
That hasn't stopped federal agencies, state and local governments from violating the 2nd Amendment
In a previous essay, I point out how in lieu of prosecution for an alleged crime, the FBI is coercing people to sign a form “declaring yourself a danger to yourself and others” and/or “lack the mental capacity to contract or manage the details of your life”, which Forbids you from ever again owning or possessing a firearm and to try to purchase one would be a felony!
In “The Disarming of America”, I point out:
A 500% increase in ATF shutting down Federal Firearms Licencees, (Gun dealers), for the least infraction, no matter how unitentional, without any warning whatsoever. Their records on gun sales and to whom guns were sold go into an unconstitutional ATF database to keep track of gun owners, which is estimated to be at least 6,000,000 by now.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been tracking gun owners without a warrant in a coordinated system with the FBI, according to documents exclusively reviewed by The Epoch Times.
Hundreds of pages of documents produced to Gun Owners of America from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show ATF agents telling the FBI to daily monitor specific people through the federal background system when they lawfully purchase guns.
My state of Washington actually passed a bill, HB 1240, banning over 60 different types of semi-automatic weapons simply because they resemble an M16, a selective fire rifle that can be made fully automatic, despite the U.S. Army’s definition of an “assault rifle”:
A selective-fire rifle chambered for a cartridge of intermediate power. If applied to any semi-automatic firearm regardless of its cosmetic similarity to a true assault rifle, the term is incorrect.
Still waiting for how they expect this will affect the criminals who possess these weapons and have no intention of giving them up. That’s because they’re criminals!
A Harvard Study titled “The Real Effect of Gun Bans” proves that banning guns increases crime, which is why Seattle and other blue cities in America are so dangerous. In New York City, they actually prosecute you when you defend yourself against a criminal!
All the unconstitutional gun laws are a double slap in your face. They purport to prevent crimes by limiting your rights. Then allow the people who break their alleged laws right back on the street to do it again! Federal, state and local governments don't give a rat's ass about your safety. They only want to disarm you!
The fear factor regarding gun ownership
Crime drops astronomically in areas where concealed carry laws are passed. Am I missing the part in the 2nd Amendment that your right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed except if you want to carry it in your coat or pocket? Then you need a permission slip from the government?
It goes without saying crime in places with open carry laws, crime falls through the floor. Again, did I miss the part in the 2nd Amendment that your right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed except if you want to carry it in the open? Then we need a special law for that?
Police response time to crime vs armed citizen at the scene
The national average police response time used to be 10 to 11 minutes. With such factors as Defund the Police, police quitting in disgust because prosecutors put criminals right on the streets or because they can't protect themselves and are subject to lawsuits if they do, police response times are increasing exponentially. For example, in New Orleans, 51 minutes to 146 minutes. In New York, from 18 minutes to 33 minutes.
As for citizens at the scene with guns, on July 19, 2022, 22-year-old Eli Dicken stopped a mass shooting in 15 seconds at Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana at the food court. He hit the shooter with eight out of ten shots from 40 yards away, impressive shooting with a pistol. The killer had already killed three people and it would have been many more.
Crime Prevention Research Center has a list of cases where armed citizens stopped active shooting incidents.
Bottom line. The police can't be everywhere.
Why am I telling you all this? THIS is your southern border since January 2021! Don't just look at the picture. Play the video!
(The Center Square) – The number of illegal border crossings at the northern and southern borders and all ports of entry since January 2021 totals more than eight million people, greater than the individual populations of 38 U.S. states, all U.S. cities with the exception of New York City, all U.S. counties with the exception of Los Angeles County, and the populations of over 120 countries.
This total excludes gotaway data, which Customs and Border Protection, (CBP), doesn’t publicly report. Yet interestingly, CBP just announced “there were 18,000 known getaways in 16 days in fiscal year 2024!
Armed men in camouflage crossing our southern border!
You can speed up to 1:15 in the video where it starts.
When Putin crossed into Ukraine with a measly 190,000 troops that was called an invasion!
More need-to-know news:
This fiscal year, federal law enforcement stopped 160 people listed on the terror watch list from entering the US illegally at the borders — the highest number ever! How many more made it without being caught?
Two Iranian nationals were captured at the southern border in the past two weeks, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This is the latest in a series of incidents involving individuals tied to terrorism being apprehended amid the ongoing border crisis.
Thousands of military age Middle Eastern men have been coming across the southern border since 2021.
Thousands of Chinese military age nationals are crossing the southern border and into Florida by boat. They are even trying to get into military bases in Alaska.
More Biden insults to injury
The Biden administration now plans to give 5.7 MILLION migrants free housing and medical! So, the ones blending in with the rest that come here to disrupt the country and kill you will be comfortably rested and in good health!
Get a gun and learn how to use it! Remember the fear factor regarding gun ownership
A gun is a tool like any other tool that can be used for good or bad. It is as safe as any other tool if you know how to use it properly. If you live in a city where you aren't even allowed to have guns, but your so-called public servants have 24-hour armed protection, vote them out or move! Don't be a sitting duck!
Am I saying you'll be able to fend off a machine gun? I don't know. I have no idea what kind of guns you have and how many. And neither should anyone else, especially the government or some would be terrorists! That is exactly what the Founders intended. That is the genius of the 2nd Amendment.
Think hard here. Would they attack a gun free blue city or someplace they know Americans are armed to the teeth and know how to use their weapons?
As I have shown you, your treasonous public officials are disarming you and setting up the circumstances for a terrorist attack or outright invasion of America.
Make it hurt!
Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is. Clint Eastwood as “The Outlaw Josie Wales”
Why am I showing you a scene and dialogue from a movie?
To reiterate, I have factually shown you how the government that was created to serve and protect you is out to destroy you. The scene is from a great movie. The dialogue is essential advice on how to survive a dire situation, that based on our trajectory, in all probability, could occur. And you will survive. You have it in you! Be ready!
Because without America there is no free world - Canada Free Press
There's just a certain segment of society who won't see the truth even if it hits them in the face. The rest are reading commentary like this that, as the late Walter E. Williams used to say, pushes back the frontiers of ignorance.
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