Get Your Head Straight About the Second Amendment
BY Herschel Smith
There is an X post in this link, but that’s not what interested me. The weird cacophony of comments were just as strange as anything I could have imagined.
I am an old man now. I’ve boiled away all the BS. Gun control is my litmus test. If you support gun control you are a fascist. Period. End of story.
If you support fascism there is already a party for you. The Democrats.
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Litmus test you say?
“If you support gun control you are a fascist. Period. End of story.“
So you agree with me that Vladimir Putin is a fascist, good to know.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill tightening gun controls in response to a deadly school shooting earlier this year.
The law, signed into force on June 28, raises the minimum age for buying hunting rifles and long-barreled guns from 18 to 21.
It also provides for additional restrictions on owning weapons.“https://www.rferl.org/amp/russia-gun-ownership-law/31331101.html
It all goes downhill from there and apparently these commenters know each other (at least, over the interwebz) and one thinks he has something on the other. I’m glad I don’t deal with these commenters. I’d just delete them. I have no patience for things like that in my house.
Let me answer the question for you. Yes, if you support gun control, you are a communist. You may be a communist with a little ‘c’ who pretends to love liberty, or you may be a communist with a big ‘C’ who admits it all. But either way, you are a communist.
That’s why I didn’t like GWB who wanted to renew the Clinton era AWB. That’s why I didn’t like Clinton (among many other things). That’s why I didn’t like Obama (among many other things). And if Trump continues to make claims that he is the best friend gun owners have and then ignores our demands, I won’t like him very much by the end of all of this.
The same thing goes for Putin. I don’t like him because he is a gun controller (among many other things). Gun control is a signal issue that indicates to me where your heart is.
And note well that both the senate and the house let 2A advocates, sports shooters, hunters and gun owners down in their promise to undo suppressors and SBRs as NFA items. This will come back to haunt them.
I know that there is a flurry of lawsuits now over the NFA given the fact that there is now a registry without a tax which folks purport to violate other laws passed by congress.
So what? All a court has to do is decide that if congress this term had wanted to remove suppressors and SBRs from the NFA, or that they were worried about running afoul of other things they had done, they could have easily removed them from the NFA altogether or not rescinded the tax.
As it is, the $200 tax has stood for almost 100 years. Now that we’ve made it fair game, who knows what the democrats will do when they control things (as they are bound to)?
They’ve opened a can of worms by doing what they consider to be a halfway house. A court will never side with us, and even if so, the SCOTUS will never grant it certiorari. The Pollyanna posts and videos about how this is a win annoy me. It’s a fantastical and abject loss and failure.
Finally, I suspect John Thune was worried about losing the senate by exposing Cornyn and others as gun controllers. He doesn’t have his chamber in order, and I suspect that’s why he didn’t overrule the parliamentarian.
So before Elon or anyone else gets his head straight about the second amendment, we need to first focus on the senate and house, if there is really any further point to doing so. I suspect all is lost and there is no longer any purpose in politics. It’s all just one uniparty.
And we had a once in a hundred year chance to remove suppressors from the NFA. But you didn’t have your chamber in order. There are gun controllers among you that you decided to protect rather than do the people’s work. You served fellow senators instead.
— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) July 5, 2025