As news continues to flash on leftist violence, and – wonder of wonders – total virus cases fail to fall, a cultural change is afoot. Oddly, against the trendline, this change may be good. Americans are getting reintroduced to their Constitution – and the Second Amendment.
Here is what is happening – and why it matters. Mob behavior and violent crime are spiking. Socialist/anarchistic forces, originating in leftist cities, have overpowered peaceful protests.
As violence continues, Democrat mayors fumble and appease. Fumbling never wins games. Appeasement never works. As Winston Churchill said in WWII, “an appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” In time, it does.
Instability is spreading. As a result, President Trump has moved decisively to protect federal property, stabilize cities and suburbs terrorized by organized promotors of crime and chaos.
Legally, lest there be question, the President has full authority to send federal law enforcement to locations where federal property and equities are at risk. Federal law enforcement already coordinates closely with state and local police in all 50 states.
Federal law enforcement officers already support state and locals in counter-narcotics, counterterrorism, and countering hundreds of categories of crime prosecuted at all levels.
To be clear, co-jurisdictional crimes include advocating overthrow of the government, aggravated assault and battery, arson, assault with a deadly weapon, assaulting federal officers, murder and attempted murder, bombings, harassment, coercion, conspiracy, damage to religious property, demands against the US, drive-by shootings, drug trafficking, falsely claiming citizenship, obstruction of criminal investigations, rescue of seized property, trespassing, treason, vandalism, and other acts.
So, the problem afoot now, especially in Democrat-led states, is that federal law enforcement is limited – 100,000 to protect 330 million, a ratio of federal officers to citizens that is 1:3,300. If Democrat leaders in enflamed states refuse to deploy local law enforcement, forbid responding to 911, or push defunding, delegitimizing, and denying protection to police, these troubled jurisdictions become unprotected. Without enforcement, rule of law does not exist.
That we are even discussing this is mind-boggling, in a nation that has long balanced individual liberty, equal opportunity and order. Americans respect conscientious law enforcement.
Until 2020, no major political party – even for opportunistic reasons – advocated lawlessness for political gain, or advanced chaos as an alternative to ordered liberty. No mayor allowed their city to burn, violence and agitation to multiply, and citizens to go unprotected.
Yet that is the policy being promoted – with horrific results – by Democrat leaders. In a divided nation – increasingly unprotected, fumbling, and appeasing, where is the good news? Just here.
Americans of all stripes are re-learning why our Founders inserted that Second Amendment, affirming our right to self-defense. It affirms “security of a free state” requires that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
As George Washington, wrote: “Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.” Alexander Hamilton wrote: “The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” They should know – they wrote it.
With rediscovery of our sacred right to self-defense, comes good news. Americans in cities and suburbs are not taking bad leadership and rising violence lying down. They are stepping up.
Proof that Americans care about rule of law and ordered liberty, will not abide lawlessness, is mounting. In March 2020, data affirmed: “Fears of the Covid-19 virus sparked a gun-buying surge …” See, e.g., https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2020/03/21/who-are-buying-all-these-guns/.
More than 3.7 million background checks were done in March, the most “in 20 years.” See, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/us-gun-purchases-coronavirus-record.
The trend is now accelerating. By July, fears of social unrest sent gun buying sky-high. One report notes: “The gun industry has never seen anything like 2020,” an “explosion of sales driven by concerns over rising crime, protests, the coronavirus crisis, and the presidential election …,” adding “new sales and customer data collected from gun stores are even more shocking than the latest historic level of FBI background checks …” See, .
In short, gun purchases “nearly doubled in the first six months of 2020,” as ammunition “surged 139 percent.” The jump crosscuts demographics. To protect families, buyers are “blacks, Asians, and Hispanics,” with the “highest overall firearm sales… black men and women,” a “58.2 percent increase in purchases.” Why? Without police, communities become insecure.
What does higher violence, poor leadership, and rising firearm sales mean? Americans love their freedom, know insecurity when they see it, and want to be safe. They are tiring of leftist agitation and violence. They do not trust Democrat leaders to stop it, not with fumbling and appeasement.
This is a consequential year. The future will be defined by whether we protect rule of law in unsettled times. As the year progresses and election nears, what may be unseen is how America’s silent, rearming majority feels. More may prioritize rule of law. We will see on November 3.
I fully expect President Trump to be re-elected in a landslide. Why? … Because the American people are finally getting a “Real” view of what today’s Democratic Party has evolved into! And they are no longer trying to disguise it. They are truly Communist!!!
What I don’t understand is why they have fully come out in the open. And I truly believe that by doing so they are guaranteeing that President Trump gets re-elected! They couldn’t believe nor accept that Hillary lost and President Trump has proven to be their worst nightmare. He is not the typical Republican who is intimidated by their buffoonery. They are so afraid of his re-election that they are pulling out all stops to defeat him and by doing so, they are showing their true colors! The Communist nutcases have taken control of the Party leadership and by doing so, have alienated the entire base of 35 and over Middle Class who realize that in today’s “New” Democratic Party there is No Middle Class! In Socialism/Communism, there is only Rich and Poor, with the Poor making up 98% of the population. If they think by rioting and looting they can intimidate the American People into allowing them victory, they’re going to learn a huge lesson. Just having fun sales explode should show them that the American People are preparing to protect themselves from being forced into servitude! Their heads have exploded and just imagine what a President Trump’s reelection will do to them! The Republican Party will now be the home of the American Middle Class!
I love America. I also love Robert B Charles’ articles.
What I find stunning is leftists arming up vs leftists.
Love to get a gun dont know which 1 I need anyway, No local militia around here
& Yes rearming day 1 of riots hit for Floyd to date.
Hard to see during virus reign stages BUT when riots hit then It came clear.
Landslide Victory for President & select allies
Everything Left does Backfires or should
When I see news of a local militia in my area I know trouble brewing if any
Time to use a harder material than rubber.
Thank you for this article. I am hoping it will not come to us having to use our guns. What is happening is a dystopia film being played out. I pray that people will learn the constitution and protect it! It is what holds our liberties together. A great book is A Miracle That Changed the World The 5000 Year Leap, principles of freedom 101. This has opened my eyes to the beauty of the constitution and our responsiblity concerning it. Let us all work together to hold this country together. In all sincerity…God Bless America.❤
Excellent article. Most issues won’t cause somebody to vote for the “other party”. I believe that public safety/ law and order are exceptions to that rule. I’m hopeful EVERY voter is aware that the repulsive dim politicians have really stepped in it this time. I’m praying that dim voters are intelligent enough to comprehend that their party has crossed WAY over the line. We’ll see.
Re-arming? More like adding to our self-defense capabilities. We also added cameras, fencing and signage. No commie socialist brainwashed TODDLERS are going to be bothering us. We also stay informed and inform others. Silent, my hindquarters!?
It is outrageous that the Communists (formerly called “Democrats,” are trying to overthrow city and state governments, without any orders given to law enforcement personnel to stop the looting, burning, violence and chaos from BLM/Antifa, sponsored by billionaire George Soros. Soros wants to overthrow America in order to form his “utopia” of a one-world society, with no borders and no national sovereignty anywhere. The man is evil and completely insane.
Unless the despicable rioting (cloaked as “peaceful” protests) is put down and participants arrested and prosecuted, I’m afraid that we who are silent are in for a bumpy ride. The MSM is part of the disgraceful and dangerous plan to overthrow governments at all levels, aided by the propaganda-spreading government indoctrination centers called the “school system.” I would be considered a right-wing “extremist,” and have no problem with a label that proclaims my love for freedom instead of slavery. I would say more, but I am headed to the barn to reload some more ammo for self-defense purposes in case law enforcement doesn’t show up to keep BLM from burning down our house.
“Welcome to the party, Pal.”
Personally, I think it’s time to go in shooting. These people haven’t proven themselves to be only disrupters, but also murderers. Innocent people are being harmed and killed, even children. They are walking the streets while gym owners and home owners are being charged and arrested. I’ve never seen anyone so blatantly stupid in my life as these Democratic “leaders”. They all have “Pelosi Carcinoma” of the brain. All are terminally ill.
So glad that Americans are rising up and trying to take back what is ours. Those who want violence should be the ones to pay for all of the damages and anything else associated with it all. Also, those mayors and such should not be receiving any federal aid since they chose to do nothing.
The “fumbling and appeasement” seems an understatement. Too many of the politicians, all Democrats, are ideologically aligned and sympathetic to the mobs and therefore have zero interest in stopping the destruction and terror. The Portland Mayor actually joined them at one point! They are part of the problem, not the solution. Yes, a large segment of the American public are preparing for the worst hoping it does not come to that. But we will defend ourselves, our families, our homes, and our property by whatever means become necessary including lethal force.
The LEFT (Demo-Commie-Socio-Marxists) are so blinded by their hate and racism, they can’t see the road they are are on goes to NOWHERE….
I hope and Pray for President Trump to be re-elected.
When President Trump is reelected, the left wing nut jobs are going to cry foul, and really step up their violent
attacks. If you don’t have a weapon, I would advise buying one now, and learning how to use it. Better to have it and not use it. then needing it and not having it. Time is growing short.
As the violence spills over into peaceful neighborhoods, we all had better be prepared. If you have a concealed carry permit, I suggest you carry anytime you leave your home. Put a weapon within easy reach of where you watch TV and answer the door. Do not leave doors unlocked around the home. If you have a dog, trust their instincts when they bark to alert you to possible threats. If you go to see what they are barking at, carry your weapon at the ready. Have a weapon near your nightstand. If you have children or grandkids visiting, exercise caution. My family knows that I have weapons throughout the house and understand why. I refuse to be a victim..
No worries here! Joe Biden has “a plan”… albeit the same one that President Trump has…
I pray each day that Trump wins and that Republicans add representatives to the House and Senate. It will be a living hell if the Commie Dems get into power. If you look back at what happened in other countries that became Communist, the people soon found out that they had been bamboozled into thinking everything would be fair and they would live in a Utopia. Turned out they lived in a world of tyranny by the leaders where the people had NO rights to anything except to follow the leaders. If they didn’t , they were off to work camps or worse, killed. Millions died from starvation and their properties had been taken from them and given to the State so they could make it “more fair”. These young people terrorizing us now were fed Progressive lies in school all of their lives and you can bet they have no idea what is really happening here!! We Conservatives who believe in our Constitution MUST get out to vote!!! Call you friends and relatives, offer to take them to the polls. We cannot trust our votes will count unless we do it in person!!!
Advise duly taken. At 74, I never had a gun. I do now!
I always knew the the national news media was a mouth piece for the democrat party, but in the past they at least tried to hide it. Now, the gloves are off! Now, as the democrat party slides into communism the democrat communist news media is with them all the way. Truth be told, the news media is probably the catalyst. Honesty and journalistic integrity is gone. Voters beware!
We must take a stand for freedom, liberty and justice for all. The country is reaching a breaking point and we cannot waiver at this crucial time. We the people have had enough political correctness and cancel culture and now anarchy in the streets being celebrated by liberal politicians that should be held accountable for the destruction of America. Wrong has become right, right has become wrong! Vote these idiots out of office and Support President Trump, the police and conservative leaders who will uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment for the right to bear arms.
I have never had a gun. My wife doesn’t want guns because her brother was killed when he and a friend were playing with a gun. I have PTSD from the military and some mental illness and I probably wouldn’t be allowed to have one anyway.
Since the Clintons came to DC, the country has progressively deteriorated. The Bushes were weak, then came Obama straight out of hell. Here we are today. We tried a breath of fresh air when Trump won the Presidency, but the left never let us enjoy the prosperity he brought along. China loves to see all this internal chaos. Sounds as if we are in for a bitter fight leading up to November 3, 2020. President Trump wins or China will rule us. Keep praying……
Great article! TRUMP 2020!!!
When mobs rule, we naturally react. Some with fear, others with anger, and most of the decent hardworking, honest, and contributors to society, are increasingly angry and beyond disgusted. We want it stopped.
Escalation increases, through the complicity of what clandestine groups are doing by some, and funded by people who want to kill America, but who cannot, will not, and must not be successful.
As the siege increases, the damage, harm to people, and disgusting criminal behavior remains uncontrolled. Many, in the millions, want to react and stop this from happening. To do that as we are reading, these angry Americans are increasingly angry and urge stopping the acts of violence by whatever means necessary. That rhetoric has now turned to increased statements of violence to the destructors and cause of the turmoil. We read of comments for increased push back.
As some elected officials condone the destruction and violence for purely political reasons, all of which is irrational and they must be held accountable for allowing. When citizens who pay the bills are subjected to this violence and destruction, the inept elected are to blame!
So, where do we go from here? We can see the elected officials stand to law and order and stop this wholesale violence, or it becomes the duty of citizens to stop this and to do so immediately.
This is what I am reading and understand the frustration/ What will occur? Greater escalating violence? The end is clear, based on Americans and their history as Americans – and, it not very pretty, but becoming more the need to end this.
WE HAVE ALL HAD QUITE ENOUGH OF THIS ANARCHY THING. Sure anarchy is all fun and games till real anarchists show up and want your stuff right?
We MUST retake the House and keep the Senate. Even with the vile RINOs, we need to overthrow idiots like Nadless, AOC, Tlaib, Cohen, Schiff, and the rest!
Robert B. Charles wrote an excellent article, but there is a glaring error in it that mirrors a common, but false conception of the Second Amendment. He wrote: ” It affirms” security of a free state” require that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Wrong!
Charles has confused the operative clause of the Second Amendment with the prefactory clause.
Consider this, suppose the “blue” states joins in with the Democrat controlled three branches of the Federal Government in oppressing the right to bear arms. You know, the usual suspect states like California, New York, New Jersey, etc, etc. Why on Earth would anyone care about the security of such a free state?
Pssst! Mr. Charles, the intent of the Second Amendment was to give the people a means to resist ANY level of government oppression, not just the Federal level. The problem with the text of the Second Amendment was in using a joint admonishment for two separate clauses, i.e. “…shall not be infringed.” The founder’s error was in thinking that common sense would prevail in the interpretation of the Second Amendment. They could have avoided much controversy if they had written the Second Amendment using two sentences. To wit: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state shall not be infringed. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, sghall not be infringed.” Instead the founders tried to make their verbiage concise by using the enjoiner, “…shall not be infringed.” only once instead of twice. This gives the liberal elite a chance to wrongly jumble the right of a state to maintain a militia, and the right of individual people to keep and bear their own firearms, no matter what type, or in what number. This is where I ask the anti-gun liberals to justify strict regulations on firearms. “What danger does a competent, law-abiding adult citizen pose in owning a firearm?” That’s when I also ask: “Why does the government, (at any level), need to know the serial number/numbers on the privately owned firearms of righteous citizens?”
Please resist the urge to cite “crime fighting” as an argument, I will just laugh out loud at such lame
reasoning. The average “trusted” political representative who lives behind gated walls, loses little sleep over the security of the citizens who must face the Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other George Soros paid thugs.
The privately owned firearm is now a symbol of liberty. If we ever witness a general upheaval, that firearm will become, once again, tools of an oppressed populace. By the way, the privately owned rifle should, … no…must, be at least as formidable as the ones being carried by the Jack-booted government thugs. You know, like the AR-15 type rifle, which just happens to be the most commonly owned firearm in the United States. The liberal elite call these rifles “assault weapons”.
Their fear of such firearms are well-founded. They know that one cannot oppress an armed people.
I truly pray that it will not come to having to level my weapon on anyone. I swore once I would never again point of fire a weapon at someone. People who speak of civil war have have never in a war. I am prepared and will do whatever is necessary to protect my family. Just sad to me that in this the Greatest Nation ever dreamed of that it could come to this.
To the new.fun owners, remember it’s your right to own, it is your responsibility to learn about and practice fun saftey. At least understand your weapon. The military trained me spent a boat of money on said training. Please be safe, train, don’t be shy about firing a lot of rounds. He safe my brothers and sisters!
Trump did not attend memorial on Capitol Hill yesterday for John Lewis. Seems like this would have been a good time to mend fences & I suspect that it will cost Trump a lot of votes by not attending or announcing in public his support or reasons. I noticed right away that he was not there. This is not the way to try to put down any racial overtones from WH. Was Pence there ?????
What I do not understand is why so many of the states have gone public that they do not want Federal troops coming in? What do they think or see when they say this. Seattle is a good example of poor control of riots. You burn up a police car & then taxpayers pay for a new one ??
ALWAYS be prepared to defend your perimeter, no matter WHERE you LIVE. As you can see, when it comes down to it, YOU have to protect / defend YOURself and YOUR family. Wake up, Americans.
As you see with the crippled police, thanks to ( D ) communist mayors, are unable to help the citizenry. Arm yourslves if you have NOT already.
These Vermon must be dealt with by whatever means it takes to make Americans safe . You come and try to burn my home and kill my family and you will die and as well you should this is the only thing that communists understand you do not appease evil ever! Wake up America Mr Trump needs our help!
Go Trump Go
We the people better wake up and save Our Country
President Trump is truly with American Citizens and believes in America.
All of us MUST insure re-election and continuation of this Great Nation!
I think Uncle Joe and his gang is driving the frenzy , not so much the Whaun virus . Just watch the Free Press coverage and the virus not slowing down the woke Americans in their peaceful protests . Before our state went CCP majority of businesss put up signs gun free zones , just like masks . Now that of course did not stop the gang bangers , thugs , dope heads but basically disarmed the general population. Is anybody gonna throw Bloomberg in the klink for putting millions into elections he is throwing and has no business in ??
You can be sure that if Biden is elected, he and his liberal cohorts will either ignore the 2nd Amendment, or somehow try to repeal it.
George Soros is an easy target and one that has no conscious whatsoever. He is a globalist that is intent on destroying ordered government in any setting he can. Why is it that we allow people such as Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Nark Zuckerberg, Tom Steyer, et all a free pass? they and their billions have a lot to do with what the Democrat Party has become and they continue to support many of the actions the left uses. Why is there silence? We all know the answer. It is to discredit the president and his policies while completely ignoring the accomplishments of his administration until China unleashed COVID-19 on the world. Whether it was intentional or simply one that they used after the fact is unimportant because IF Biden wins, they win as does Russia. Listen to The Resting Pendulum podcasts and you will be told other facts in upcoming episodes; i.e. the war against parents and students in our schools, the COVID-19 lie, and the manufactured myth of systemic racism.
We are in a battle for OUR COUNTRY and have a responsibility to have open dialog with anyone on the fence. At this point, wasting time with disciples of the religion of the left is useless.
I hope enough of us silent majority turn out and vote to overcome the cheating we know the left will do in the states that mail in vote
In the 1960’s a man named Mao Tse Tung told young people in China that the nation had suffered because of the “rich landowners,” the “bourgeois capitalists.” Those words were used to put a target on the back of any who owned anything. Literally. If they were prospering, and you were poor, then it was unfair and action was required. He organized the youth into groups called the Red Guards to bring about social justice. They were empowered to take any action they wanted against the the adults around them. So they destroyed or stole their property and put them on public platforms to be beaten with sticks. They created a humiliating punishment called “the airplane” in which the tortured soul’s arms were pulled straight behind the body like swept jet wings, and then they took clippers and cut their hair off to the scalp with a viciousness that left the victim bloodied.
The wrath spread to any that the mob wanted to target. So not surprisingly, they also beat their own teachers and destroyed schools. Anyone of influence was viewed as a threat to the new social order and purged. Religious and cultural relics were destroyed. All of this was part of the plan to destroy the “Four Olds” – old ideas, old customs, old culture and old habits. Society collapsed from the chaos and pain, all carried out in the name of socio-economic purification. It had to be done. Mao smiled approvingly, cementing his power via these young agents of terror.
This Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that began in 1966 ultimately resulted in an estimated 1.5 million deaths and banishment of 20 million more (to rural areas and poverty). In the end, the people of China were left powerless and the state grew into the all-powerful communist regime that we know today, the one that “disappears” journalists, doctors, professors, ethnic and religious minorities, and anyone else who exercises unapproved speech.
And the poor are still poor.
And here we are in the USA in 2020, with mobs ravaging business owners. Somewhere along the way in years past the voices of insurrection found and collected disenfranchised youths and whispered in their collective ears in a way that would make Mao smile. They heard the message of unfairness, of social injustice, and it resonated to them. Their anger was built to an explosive level. And then a sudden spark, the catalyst that the fathers of anarchy had been waiting for. This, they tell them, is the time. Go out and inflict pain to achieve justice. Tear down and destroy. Loot and burn. Make the privileged kneel and confess their sins. Do it with a righteous vengeance to any who have more than you or who dare to defy your power. Tear down symbols of the past. Enforce limits on speech. A new day has come. You, the youth of America, are the key. And so they have.
Ultimately, they will be discarded, just as they were in China. The puppet masters will have achieved their goal, the dismantling of the American Olds … individual liberty and the system of capitalism. The state will rule with supreme authority, freed of the limitations of the old outdated Constitution for the sake of New Ideals. The mob will have served its purpose.
And the poor will still be poor.
As a veteran I swore an oath to defend AMERICA from our enemies foriegn and domestic, that would be the demonrats, socialist, communists, and the braindead morons that support them.
If you so called”peaceful protestors”come to my home and threaten my family,my country and/or myself you will not like what or who you are dealing with.I will not put up with your”BULL EXHAUST”,that is not a threat,THAT IS A PROMISE.
I fully expect Trump to be re-elected. We need him in the Oval Office. But let’s not be naive. Leftists are buying guns, too. Be sure to have plenty of ammo.
IT’S MORE THAN GUNS – Unfortunately the game afoot is bigger than the election – Obama’s executive order 1111 empowers the “order-restoring” United Nations military to confiscate any property they deem necessary to preserve order, including guns. So all that’s necessary to unleash all those white trucks in Colorado with “U.N.” painted on their sides is a nation in disorder. A “National Emergency” of Turmoil in four major U.S. cities would very quickly put boots on the ground, have martial law declared, and objectors on their way to FEEMA “re-education camps”.
Is this a conspiracy theory? No. The takeover of this country has been planned for many years, and we as a nation appear to be at that point in history where a new civil war for survival begins.
My commentary marks me as a target where I stand, but so be it. I join those who will stand to face the challenges, and as I
suspect my own adult children are still unaware of the magnitude of this occasion, know that I stand with those who oppose slavery and are willing to fight for freedom.
Abraham Lincoln’s wish was not “That Might made right, but that Right made might”. God’s Peace be with you all.
Shalom. – Larry –
These IDIOTS that support BLM are a tremendous problem for all Americans of every color. Many of them THINK they are supporting Black People, but guess what? They don’t WANT or NEED your help, and a good majority of them are living in agonizing FEAR of BLM. So rather than HELP Blacks, the BLM Supporters are further endangering them !! They refuse to admit the obvious truth behind BLM, Antifa, and Covid, and as a result, are making things far worse, as Liberals ALWAYS DO!
I agree wholeheartedly! The way we are being treated as American Citizens, by the leadership of a once rational democratic party, is a wake-up call to all thinking Americans. We will continue to Keep America Great by realizing that our beloved Constitution is under attack and by rising up to reclaim our constitutional rights!
Trump said, if state needs help I will send in troops & will take care of quickly. Does not look like Portland is quickly & is chaos.
Peaceful protesters are being used as shield by the bad guys. And why would anyone in their right mind such as Navy guy & Portland mayor think that they can just go to middle of protest & be innocent bystander. Would you like to buy Brooklyn bridge?? Seriously, this is not going to end up well for a lot of reasons, that I believe history will tell. My advice, stay home you idiots.
My two cents on stimulus package, keep the extra $600 for unemployed as this is stimulating economy. They need this & spend it & data shows most people saved last one , so look in the mirror & ask what will I do with mine & could I live on the $325 per week otherwise. Bet your booties that most of the House/Senate would have a tough time on some states that pay less than $100 per week. Republicans will stifle the economy instead of stimulate with their thinking. I guess most of them have never seen tough times in their life. Compassion & unite with both parties for USA.