Donald Trump recently said that “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick — if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don’t know.”
This assertion prompted mass shock and outrage in the media, with any number of politicians—including the Hillary Clinton campaign—and other talking heads accusing the Republican presidential candidate of inciting violence and calling for an assassination attempt on Clinton. Trump went on to say he meant that Second Amendment supporters, including the NRA, could make a difference by coming out in large numbers and voting for him in November.
All mudslinging aside, there may be another explanation behind the unprecedented outrage prompted by Trump’s comment.
He touched on the one option—the one that must never be named—that is proven to work against tyrants, including the leftist crybully variety: revolution.
You see, the one thing every American is indoctrinated in from cradle to grave is that “violence is never the answer.” And why should it be? If we want change, we have the right to vote, speak freely, and even protest peacefully.
But what happens when these rights slowly erode, losing form and meaning? When elections become a circus and the presidency something of an oligarchy; when the voting public has been incrementally dumbed down generation after generation and programmed to vote in certain ways (emotionalism, sensationalism) catered to by the media?
What happens when people forget that free speech and peaceful protests have no intrinsic value in the political arena unless they first have a real capacity to effect change? Words and protests, for words and protests’ sake, serve no purpose—other than to give the illusion of freedom and thus create complacency against encroaching authoritarianism, including of the “liberal” variety.
Many of us, for instance, have been exposing the dangers of Islam for decades now, offering concrete, unassailable proofs concerning that creed’s incompatibility with the West; and many, perhaps the majority of Western people, agree. Yet regardless of their words, votes, and demonstrations, Western governments continue to import millions of Muslims, some of whom go on to massacre the very citizens Western governments are first and foremost charged to protect. European nations like Sweden are already on the verge of collapse thanks in whole to the policies of their governments.
So what are free peoples to do when their governments insist on acting against their interests?
Historically they revolted—such as the Founding Fathers of this nation did in 1776: Americans stopped protesting against the British, took up arms, revolted, and forced change, namely by creating their own nation.
And that may be what the current powers-that-be don’t want remembered: sometimes violence is the only way to bring about reform. History confirms this unfortunate assertion.
What if Trump was suggesting that if a Hillary-led government decided to abolish that ancient American right to bear arms—including as a final defense against said government—Americans need not surrender their arms and go along like sheep.
Is this an incitement to violence? No. It’s seems more an acknowledgment or warning that when push comes to shove—when free speech becomes a meaningless concession to be ignored, when the government regularly violates the interest of the people—revolt often looms in the shadows.
After all, the movers-and-shakers—not the recyclable political puppets set before the public’s eye, but the social engineers, the special interests groups, those who know that disarming a nation is easy if you first disarm it of its reason—have never been and are not now going to be “talked” or “demonstrated” out of power.
Hence why liberal media and elite may, if only subconsciously, be going crazy against Trump: he dared mention—and thus legitimize—the one thing that must never be mentioned, not even as a remote possibility, perhaps because it is the one thing guaranteed to oust them from power and influence: revolution.
“the one thing guaranteed to oust them from power and influence: revolution.” An almost unfathomable action, doomed to failure if the military defended the nation by cutting down the very “We” that it supposedly is.
The outright hostility of the political class does not bode well for the future of the Republic; they may get their way with the US being nothing more than a bureaucracy to be managed that represents no ideals of worth.
These are just irrational arguments. Nobody wants to take guns away;they just need to be kept away from violent ,crazy people. And 1st Amendment is a fundamental right that can not be taken away by force of arms.
And your narcissistic ravings spell out one thing, an extended stay at a mental facility for you if you can manage to keep from losing your head (physically) by crazed muslims. It’s pretty apparent you have already lost your head (mentally–speaking.)
That is an idiotic comment as the ones most likely to HAVE guns despite gun control are the violent, crazed or fanatical people. In those countries with such control we ALL know who has the guns and it is not the honest, working tax payers. You are so naïve ,you are dangerous.
omg…we already KNOW they need to be kept away from the thugs….good grief….do YOU think thugs follow the law? well…who do YOU think these so called laws affect? please….clean out the smoke between your ears!
I love to hear you Americans go on about how your precious 1st Amendment will protect you and can not be taken away. You are so deluded.
Go on to almost any of your Universities and try to speak openly about how Islam is not a religion of peace, how the Palestinians are the main protagonists in the Palestinian – Israeli conflict, that Sharia is a hate filled law system that is not compatible with liberal democracies.
I wonder where your precious 1st Amendment is then. As for it not being able to be removed by force of arms who wants to? There is absolutely no need to remove it using the military it is being removed piecemeal everyday with the support of a lot of the ignorant public who don’t understand that it needs defending by the people otherwise the government will remove without most people even noticing.
This is precisely why the NSA bought its 1.6 billion bullets: NOT to stop muslims terrorists but to shoot US citizens who have finally had enough of lying , corrupt, traitorous big government. They EXPECT this to happen as does the EU as they know that they can only push so far. What they do not know is that except for the brass hat & red tab brown tongues, the majority of those who actually do the fighting are ON the side of the common man: just ask some. But you will see US/EU troops forced to fire on their own citizens first.