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My Thoughts On:
Civilian Disarmament
By Jerry D Young

I have posted my thoughts on Civilian Disarmament several times. But I have revised it recently, so I will post it again.

With the newest changes in the US power structure, the likelihood of the subject of Civilian Disarmament is likely to come up time and time again in the near future. Here are some of the ways I address the issue when it comes up and I am in a position to respond and give my thoughts on the subject.

1) I never, ever, refer to any discussion, comment, or other situation where weapons are referenced by any term other than Civilian Disarmament. For I believe wholeheartedly that the goal of people that tend to bring it up is just that. Civilian Disarmament.

No matter what term they use, I use Civilian Disarmament in every reply, all through any discussion that might take place. I DO NOT use any of ‘their’ terms. Because that allows them to disseminate information and ideas that are misleading, do not actually pertain to the subject, are often outright lies, and tend to have very strong emotional links to the word, words, or phrases that distract from the actual discussion of what they want to do.

Not ‘gun control’. Not ‘reasonable efforts’. Not ‘for the children’. Not ‘crime control’. Not ‘reducing gun deaths’. Not ‘gun safety efforts’. Not ‘simply …’ anything. Not ‘only …’ anything. Not ‘reducing gun violence’. Not ‘militia …’ anything. Not ‘regulation’. Not ‘homicide reduction’. Not ‘suicide reduction’. Not ‘limited …’ anything. Not ‘The second amendment no longer applies’.

Well, I could go on and on and on and… But I will stop here. The point is that I will not use their terms. Terms for which they have applied definitions that often have literally no connection or similarity to classic dictionary definitions of the words.

So, basically, if I am in the discussion it is a discussion about Civilian Disarmament whether it started as such or not. And though it is very difficult at times, I always try to use the word weapons, as opposed to guns. Because Civilian Disarmament does include taking effective weapons of all types from civilians, not just modern firearms. Black powder weapons, swords, spears, all the way down to even kitchen knives in places.

2) Any discussion, to be a discussion, whether it be verbal, written, or visual, should be conducted with courtesy, with respect for the other person’s opinion, without interrupting the other person (no matter how large the temptation), and two-way. No preaching, no demands, no ‘I am right and you are wrong’, no angry gestures, with each person being allowed to speak, in turn, and then allowed to speak again, in turn, to address what was said each time.

I will not argue, especially a yelling match. It solves nothing and puts me in a bad light even for those that support my opinion. I intend to lead the way, provided the example, and be that person that others will actually listen to and take away something rather than just shutting it all out, which means I will have accomplished nothing.

3) I make it personal. No, NOT calling a person names, not denigrating their intelligence or ancestors. Not using derogatory versions of political party names, group names, organization names, other peoples’ names, or anything with which they identify.

All that does is get them angry, causes them to rant and rave in return, and totally destroys any chance of exchanging actual information and providing them with information that they might just look at, and think about. They definitely will not consider anything you might suggest if it is accompanied with vitriolic accusations and derogatory comments.

What I am talking about is make the subject, and especially individual points of the discussion personal to the person with whom you are talking. Use their first name if you know it, and that is not already an objectionable thing to do for them, and if not, simply use the word ‘you’, or ‘your’, with slight emphasis on it each time.

This will hopefully allow them to see that Civilian Disarmament IS NOT about ‘the other guy’, the bad person, the person with ‘too many’ weapons, ‘the wrong kind’ of weapons, or some other ‘person’ only. It is about them as well. Everything that they want others to do and rules to abide by, they will, as well. And they often do not think about that. Not even consider it. Since they are not a gun owner, nor want to be.

The list below is the core of what I do. I ask the questions, as I said, always using the slightly emphasized ‘you’ word or variation as needed. This will cause them to think about things in ways they probably have not considered. Often the person is scared, or worried, or even just concerned, and has listened to the rhetoric put out by those attempting to disarm all civilians. Civilians. As in everyone that is not one of their own elite group, and usually police, military, and certain other ‘special’ people that they believe should have the advantages that having effective weapons available give them.

They believe that they are one of ‘them’ and not one of ‘us’, until many of these things are pointed out.

So, on with the list and additional comments at the end:

With emotions running high because of recent events, and many snap decisions being made by people in positions of power, I thought I might pass along some information and some of my thoughts on the subject at hand, so people that might not have been exposed to some of the included information will now have a chance to make decisions based on a more complete base of knowledge.

I would ask that anyone reading this not take my word for any of it, but do their own due diligence research into the thoughts that I will be expressing. To learn, on your own, if what I am asking and suggesting is true, or is not true.

This first part is a set of ‘Gun Control’ poll questions, more appropriately called Civilian Disarmament poll questions, that I think should be included in any and all polls relating in any way to the restriction of US Citizens from exercising their God given moral and legal right to acquire, own, possess, keep, bear, and use arms, as expressed in the US Constitution’s Second Amendment.

I have found that many polls presented to the public are asking for results that are essentially about ‘the other person’, not really indicating that the disarmament would apply to the person taking the poll, as well as ‘the other person’. Take this poll with yourself and your family in mind. See if you are or are not in one of the groups that will be exempt from being forcibly disarmed.

1) In a gun-free zone, where there is no one around to return fire, and an active shooter with a semi-auto rifle fires all 210 rounds of his/her ammunition: Are 210 rounds in 7 30-round magazines more dangerous than 210 rounds in 14 15-round magazines or 210 rounds in 21 10-round magazines? Yes/No

2) In that scenario, do YOU think is it better for the shooter to A) fire off those 210 rounds rapidly and wildly, because they are in 30-round magazines and they feel they have plenty? Or B) much more slowly, taking careful aim, because they only have 10 rounds at a time before they have to reload? A/B

3) Considering the number of shootings that have taken place in areas labeled “Gun Free Zone” do YOU feel safer in Gun Free Zones than in areas where regular people licensed to carry concealed weapons, or people that open carry weapons where legal are or may be armed? Yes/No

4) Are YOU willing to be unarmed in a society where only ‘official’ people can have firearms? Yes/No

5) Will YOU feel safer if a new Assault Weapons Ban is enacted? Yes/No

6) Do YOU think YOUR family will be safer if YOU are denied gun ownership? Yes/No

7) Are YOU capable of defending YOURSELF and YOUR family without the use of a firearm when confronted by criminals using guns illegally? Yes/No

8) Should YOU be considered a danger to YOUR family or other people if YOU own a gun? Yes/No

9) Are YOU willing to have your home and property searched at will by armed officials searching for illegal firearms? Yes/No

10) Are YOU willing to give up your right to have effective weapons when only ‘official’ people can have them? Yes/No

11) Should public officials be exempt from gun control measures and be allowed to have them when YOU cannot? Yes/No

12) Are a public official’s children more entitled to be protected than YOUR children and have armed security in their schools when YOU cannot have the same? Yes/No

13) Should ‘celebrities and important people’ be exempt from gun control measures and be allowed to have them when YOU cannot? Yes/No

14) Should public officials, ‘celebrities’, and ‘important people’ have personal guards that are exempt from gun control measures YOU must follow? Yes/No

15) Is the safety of public officials, ‘celebrities’, and ‘important people’ and their families more important than YOUR safety and YOUR family’s safety? Yes/No

16) Do YOU know someone ‘special’ that should be exempt from the gun laws that YOU are required to follow? Yes/No

17) Are YOU one of the ‘special people’ that should be exempt from the gun laws that others must follow? Yes/No

18) Should those that advocate gun control for YOU be exempt from the law that YOU must follow? Yes/No

19) Should those that advocate gun control for YOU be allowed to have firearms until everyone else is disarmed? Yes/No

20) Do YOU think that most of those in public office are ‘special’ and therefore more qualified than YOU to make decisions about YOUR safety and the safety of YOUR family? Yes/No

21) Do YOU think that people wishing to use firearms in crimes will give up their guns during a gun ban? Yes/No

22) Do YOU think that criminals WILL NOT be able to get firearms by theft or illegal sale when some people are exempt from gun laws, but YOU are required to give up YOURS? Yes/No

23) Are those that support rigid gun control laws and advocate the gunning down or burning alive NRA members and other gun owners hypocritical in their thinking? Yes/No

24) Should YOU have a firearm, because YOU are not a danger with one and everyone else not have one because only YOU are not a danger with one? Yes/No

25) Are YOU mentally incompetent to own and legally use a firearm because you seek help for SOME mental issues such as depression and take the prescribed medication as directed? Yes/No

26) If YOU are being treated for depression and taking the medication, if any, as directed, and therefore more mentally sound with the correct chemical balance, are YOU a bigger risk than those not taking anything or seeking help that leaves them with an untreated chemical imbalance? Yes/No

27) Are YOU incompetent to own and use a firearm because you have minor mental issues that do not involve violence against other people? Yes/No

28) Are YOU competent to decide whether or not YOUR children are introduced to the safe handling of firearms? Yes/No

29) Do YOU think government enforcement agencies should have armed agents? Yes/No

30) Do YOU think administrative and bureaucratic agencies personnel should be armed? Yes/No

31) Do YOU think administrative and bureaucratic agencies should have armed agents as part of the agency? Yes/No

32) If YOU do not own a gun, it was an option YOU chose. Do YOU believe you are better off if that option is taken away from YOU, so YOU no longer have the option to or to not to own a weapon because others believe that YOU are not capable of making the ‘correct’ decision about that option? Yes/No

33) Do YOU think terrorists or people known to be dangerous should have firearms? Yes/No

34) Do YOU consider YOURSELF a terrorist or a danger to others because of your basic beliefs? Yes/No

35) Are YOU a member of one of the following groups, have one of the following beliefs, or engage in one of the following activities that DHS has stated that indicate that YOU are a potential terrorist and a danger to the safety of the nation and should be subject to the no recourse/unlimited incarceration/no contact/no trial/no habeas corpus arrest under the US Patriot Act? Yes/No

1) “Anti-abortion activists”
2) “Anti-Gay”
3) “Anti-Immigrant”
4) “Anti-Muslim”
5) “Anyone that holds a “political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful, or undesirable”
6) “Anyone that possesses an “intolerance toward other religions”
7) “General right-wing extremist”
8) “Militia or unorganized militia”
9) “Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians”
10) “Returning veterans”
11) “Rightwing extremists”
12) “The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule”
13) “The Patriot Movement”
14) “Those that “take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals”
15) “Those that advocate for states’ rights
16) “Those that are interested in “defeating the Communists”
17) “Those that believe “that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations”
18) “Those that talk about “individual liberties”
19) “Those that want “to make the world a better place”
20) Anyone that “attends rallies for extremist causes”
21) Anyone that “believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia”
22) Anyone that “complains about bias”
23) Anyone that “establishes website/blog to display extremist views”
24) Anyone that “exhibits extreme religious intolerance”
25) Anyone that “fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations”
26) Anyone that “is frustrated with mainstream ideologies”
27) Anyone that “is personally connected with a grievance”
28) Anyone that “organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology”
29) Anyone that “suddenly acquires weapons”
30) Anyone that “visits extremist websites/blogs”
31) Anyone that exhibits “fear of Communist regimes”
32) Anyone that is “anti-abortion”
33) Anyone that is “anti-Catholic”
34) Anyone that is “anti-nuclear”
35) Anyone that is “opposed to the New World Order”
36) Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps
37) Anyone that is engaged in “ammunition stockpiling”
38) Anyone that is engaged in “conspiracy theorizing”
39) Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21/Agenda 2030
40) Anyone that would “seek to politicize religion”
41) Christians that have ever discussed the anti-Christ
42) Christians that have ever discussed the apocalypse
43) Christians that have ever discussed the book of Revelation?
44) Citizens that have “bumper stickers” that are patriotic or anti-U.N.
45) Constitution party members
46) Evangelical Christians
47) Fundamental Christians
48) Gun owners
49) Libertarian party members
50) Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol
51) Members of the American Family Association
52) Members of the Christian Action Network
53) Members of the Family Research Council
54) Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
55) Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition
56) People advocating a decentralized government
57) People distrustful of the DHS See Something, Say Something campaign
58) People driving vans
59) People involved in the Patriot Movement
60) People or groups that seek to smite the purported enemies of God and other evildoers
61) People showing an interest in web privacy when using the Internet in a public place
62) People talking to police officers
63) People that are involved with alternative media
64) People that believe in a New World Order and/or Agenda 21/2030 conspiracy
65) People that believe in civil liberties
66) People that believe in homeschooling
67) People that believe in their Constitutional rights
68) People that express an interest in self-sufficiency
69) People that express libertarian philosophies
70) People that express second Amendment-oriented views
71) People that fear economic collapse
72) People that have ever expressed concerns of Big Brother
73) People that have expressed agreement with Constitutional rights and civil liberties
74) People that have expressed fears of Big Brother or big government
75) People that have religious views concerning the book of Revelation
76) People that listen to, watch, or read alternative media
77) People that oppose abortion
78) People that oppose illegal immigration
79) People that possess survivalist literature
80) People that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority
81) People using a cell phone recording application
82) People using a video camera in public places
83) People wearing hoodies
84) People who “believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threats to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”
85) People who buy food in bulk
86) People who consider themselves “anti-global”
87) People who disagree with the mass media’s version of events
88) People who display bumper stickers
89) People who fly a U.S. flag
90) People who oppose giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants
91) People who own gold
92) People who pay cash for a cup of coffee
93) People writing on a piece of paper in public
94) Ron Paul supporters
95) The militia movement
96) The sovereign citizen movement
97) Those concerned about “illegal immigration”
98) Those that “believe in conspiracy theories”
99) Those that “believe in the right to bear arms”
100) Those that “do not think they should have to pay taxes”
101) Those that are “anti-global”
102) Those that are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”
103) Those that are “reverent of individual liberty”
104) Those that are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”
105) Those that are against illegal immigration
106) Those that are opposed “to the collection of federal income taxes”
107) Those that believe in “end times” prophecies
108) Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States “are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the ‘North American Union”
109) Those that display the Gadsden Flag (“Do not Tread On Me”)
110) Those that have “a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack”
111) Those that have “supported political movements for autonomy”
112) Those that have a negative view of the United Nations
113) Those that possess “a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism”
114) Those that refer to an “Army of God”
115) Those that support Libertarian concepts
116) Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr
117) Those that talk about “the New World Order” in a “derogatory” manner
118) Those that would “impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”
119) Those that would “insert religion into the political sphere”
120) Those who are “fiercely nationalistic (rather than universal and international in orientation)”
121) Those who are “reverent of individual liberty”
122) Those who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”
123) Those who believe their “way of life” is under attack
124) Veterans

36) Do YOU believe, that even if government jurisdictions, from city governments all the way up to all three branches of the Federal government, are not currently tyrannical in nature, that there are individuals, and groups of individuals, within the governments that do act in ways that are tyrannical, that overstep their legal authority, that use heavy handed tactics, to achieve some agenda that they believe in, even if the government in general does not? Yes/No

37) Do YOU think that these people in government that are trying to implement their own agenda, with or without the general assistance or knowledge of others within the government, and use force of arms to achieve some part of that agenda, are a danger to YOU and YOUR family due to your beliefs and your expression of your beliefs? Yes/No

38) Are YOU able to protect YOURSELF and YOUR family from these people if they, by intent or accident, attack you with weapons if you do not have weapons of YOUR own? Yes/No

39) Since these people are some of those that will legally be allowed to possess weapons of many sorts, often including military ordnance, when Civilian Disarmament has begun, are YOU willing to stand up, unarmed, to protest their actions when they violate some law you disagree with? Yes/No

40) If Civilian Disarmament occurs, do YOU think that these, for lack of a better term, JBTs (Jack Booted Thugs), sanctioned or not, will be more likely to start taking action arbitrarily to achieve their agenda, and continue to do so no matter what the rest of the government suggests or orders them to do, since they will be some of those that legally have weapons, and those that would stop them do not? Yes/No

41) Given the reality of JBTs in the future (and even now in some instances), do YOU feel that YOU and YOUR family will be safe from anything they might do, if YOU are disarmed? Yes/No

42) Are YOU willing to permanently give up YOUR other rights, and YOUR families’ other rights, when ordered to do so in support of Civilian Disarmament, as part of the necessary actions to ensure that Civilian Disarmament can be achieved with the fewest losses to the LEOs and JBTs and government officials that will be enforcing it? Yes/No

43) Currently, if YOU do not own a gun, it was an option YOU chose. Do YOU believe you are better off if that option is taken away from YOU, so YOU no longer have the option to or to not to own a weapon because others believe that YOU are not capable of making the ‘correct’ decision about that option? Yes/No

44) Do YOU think YOU are capable of making up YOUR own mind about any subject, not just Civilian Disarmament? Yes/No

45) Do YOU think YOU should only read, watch, and listen to Main Stream Media sources to get information about what is happening around you? Yes/No

46) Do YOU think other sources of information and news should be controlled by the government? Yes/No

47) Do YOU think that online services should have the power to arbitrarily restrict, demonetize, or otherwise keep alternative news and information sources from providing their services and opinions while allowing other sources to continue, when the only difference being the different social, political, or other beliefs being expressed, with no criminal or other rule violations taking place? Yes/No

48) Do YOU think YOU are capable of making up YOUR own mind about any subject, not just Civilian Disarmament? Yes/No

49) Do YOU think YOU should only read, watch, and listen to Main Stream Media sources to get information about what is happening around you? Yes/No

50) Do YOU think other sources of information and news should be controlled by the government? Yes/No

51) Do YOU think that online services should have the power to arbitrarily restrict, demonetize, or otherwise keep alternative news and information sources from providing their services and opinions while allowing other sources to continue, when the only difference being the different social, political, or other beliefs being expressed, with no criminal or other rule violations taking place? Yes/No

52) Do YOU think that those that oppose people having weapons, and have chosen to not own them, but have always had that option, and exercised that option freely understand that if Civilian Disarmament comes about, they will have no choice in the matter. An option will be taken from them, in the form of losing one of the primary aspects of being free, the right to keep and bear arms. Do YOU think that those people are going to simply accept the fact that they can no longer make a choice to own or to not own a gun, but are being ordered to, and informed at the end of a gun that owning a gun is not a choice? Yes/No

53) Do YOU remember from YOUR school years, using the textbooks of the time, and not the new ones now being printed and distributed, about how every totalitarian regime that has ever existed, has disarmed it citizens, so they become subjects, and are unable to defend themselves effectively when that regime began to control them more and more tightly, leading, ultimately, to killing everyone that did not fit their ideal of a perfect subject under their elite leadership? Yes/No

54) Whether YOU believe it will happen or not, how would YOU defend YOURSELF, YOUR family, and YOUR beliefs if our government DID become totalitarian, and YOU had given up YOUR right to own an effective weapon to combat the abuses of such a government, whether YOU own one now or not? Or would YOU submit to whatever YOU are instructed to do, and force YOUR family to submit to whatever those in authority say they must do? Yes/No

55) Could YOU and would YOU take up farming tools to fight tanks and attack helicopters and heavily armed troops to protect what you believe in? Yes/No

56) Do YOU, or do YOU think anyone else, really expects the Federal Government to “control” millions of guns, AND protect 350,000,000 unarmed ‘subjects’ (and I say subjects because we will no longer be citizens), and themselves at the same time, without the support and assistance of 50,000,000 or more former gun owners that are trying to find ways to defend their families against both the real terrorist, as well as our own government agents doing no-knock warrants, because they know there will be people that will not turn in their guns? Yes/No

57) And do YOU know just how many times SWAT and/or Assault Teams have hit the wrong house and killed the wrong dog, not to mention its owner? Multiply that percentage to 10s of millions of no-knocks. Do you think Civilian Disarmament will lessen gun deaths AND other crime related deaths? Yes/No

58) Are YOU really aware that when they are talking about Civilian Disarmament, they are talking about YOU? Not just me and another guy, but YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. Believe me, if YOU are not part of the few thousand elite, YOU will be disarmed as well, at gun point, YOUR person, YOUR vehicle, and YOUR house, storage room, gym locker, and back yard thoroughly searched. Possibly at 3 in the morning with a no-knock warrant. Are YOU willing to put YOURSELF and all members of YOUR family through that degrading process? Yes/No

59) YOU do not even have a gun, YOU say? Well, when the rewards start going up for turning in YOUR neighbors, and YOU have even one person that dislikes YOU, YOU will get that no-knock visit, because YOU lied about having a weapon, and therefore are a ‘domestic terrorist’ and LEOs cannot risk not doing it that way because it just MIGHT be true, since no one would lie about their neighbor over something petty. Do YOU know anyone that might turn YOU in for having a weapon when YOU do not have one, but want to get YOU in serious trouble, simply because they do not like YOU, or YOUR family, or want something YOU have? Yes/No

60) So, are YOU and YOUR family ready to start looking over your shoulder all the time, because they will be coming after YOU AND YOUR FAMILY for something, at some point, that YOU do, that the elite does not want happening. Like going to a Christian or Jewish church in more than groups of 2 or 3. Or grow a garden. Or complain about the inappropriate handling of YOUR 13-year-old daughter when searched for concealed weapons. And of course, it had to be a full body cavity strip search, just to keep EVERYONE safe. Are YOU in favor of being in situations? Yes/No

61) And since it will be way too late before Main Stream Media realizes that not only are YOU being targeted, and they have been ordered not to report it, but that since THEY are no longer needed for disinformation, THEY are now being targeted, so cannot warn YOU, YOU will never see it coming, except for warnings like this. Is that the way YOU want to be notified about the real results of what a ‘reasonable’ Civilian Disarmament program will be? Yes/No

62) And if I am still around (not likely, of course, after this), I will gladly remind everyone that I TOLD YOU SO.

And if you have doubts about the intention of those that are adamant about Civilian Disarmament, take a look at the following screen shot of a UN document written in 2013 that lays out the plan to disarm all citizens in all member nations. That includes the US. Compare what was written in 2013 to what is happening now. And it this is not scary enough, research UN Agenda 21 and UN Agenda 2030. Note the restricted status of the document. They did not and do not want people to know what they are planning.

 
My Thoughts On:
How The 2nd Amendment “Guarantees”
The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
By Jerry D Young

I believe the following is very important, and is the way I believe, live my life, and part of the reason I prep, not to mention how I prep.

The Constitution Of The United States IN MY OPINION is a document that acts as a guideline for how free people can live and stay free as individuals. Yes, it does carry the weight of law, but that has always been, is now, and always will be subject to the whims of those that enforce the laws. (Not the police, the elected officeholders.)

The Bill of Rights, as part of the constitution, DOES NOT guarantee anything. It is simply a list of what free people do. Only when the population does the things listed and sees to it that others are not prevented from doing them, is everyone free in the country.

A law, no matter how well written, no matter how many people supported it to get it passed into law, is absolutely meaningless if it is not abided by. And if those that have the power to see to it that it is abided by fail to do so by choice or incompetence, then that law is ignored. Where is there any guarantee in that?

Many of those in our government, especially from Lincoln’s time onward, have, usually by choice, ignored laws themselves, and allowed others to ignore even more laws, and have in the last fifty years or so actively encouraged people to ignore laws and aided and abetted them in doing so.

Those that say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of the individual to keep and bear arms, answer me this: Are all individuals in the United States (not exempt by reason of being incapable of telling right from wrong as judged by an overwhelming majority of US citizens) now able to keep and bear arms?

NO. They are not! The 2nd Amendment has not guaranteed it. And it never will. The guarantee comes from the individual citizens of the United States keeping and bearing arms, and if needed, using them to prevent those from preventing any citizen from keeping and bearing arms if they so choose.

It is the same with each and every one of the first ten amendments of the constitution, and most of the rest passed early on. (Not so much some of the later ones.)

If we, as individuals, even acting as part of various groups, do not actually do what those amendments list, we are not free, as individuals or collectively as citizens of one of the States.

If something is given, it can almost always be taken away. A guarantee is from someone else. Therefore, that someone else might just decide to take it away. That is what has happened. Since not enough individuals have actually lived as free individuals, others have been able to convince enough individuals that the power rests with a given group of people, elected Federal Government officers, and extending all the way down to bureaucrats that write policies and procedures that they feel have the rule of law (which the courts started allowing).

The concept of a Constitutional Republic is that it is a representative democracy. (Note the small ‘d’ in democracy. We ARE NOT a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic.)

Those that we elect are, by the guidelines of the Constitution, obligated to do as the constituents that elected them want them to do. I think it is abundantly clear now (as many things were ‘self-evident’ way back when, but are no longer) that few, if any elected officials pay much head to what their constituents want, above doing just enough to get re-elected in what has become a convoluted system where sometimes less than 35% of a voting population is able to elect a person into a position.

It is IN MY OPINION the same situation when it comes to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, and even more so in many lower courts. The lower courts are supposed to, by their charter, adjudicate cases of those accused of having broken a law. The SCOTUS is supposed to, by their charter, adjudicate cases of whether laws, actions, and a few other things I simply cannot remember, are within the bounds of what the Constitution has set out as what can be done within the country.

It has never been their place to create laws by judgment, or do anything other than decide if something is within the bounds of the Constitution.

Again, I ask, where is the guarantee that the SCOTOUS will make sure our ‘rights’ are not violated or taken away? There is none.

To reiterate, the only guarantees within the Constitution are those that we, as individuals, having been given a list of what free people do to be free, make happen.

Until we practice our religions; speak freely; disseminate information (free press); assemble openly; petition as needed; keep and bear arms; and do all the other things openly, forcefully, without backing down, and support others that do so, we will not be free the way those that came to create the Constitution, not just those that wrote it, wanted to be, and wanted future generations to be.

Just my very long, somewhat convoluted opinion.

And a final request:

Ask, do not demand, that anyone with whom you are discussing Civilian Disarmament to “Please do your own due diligence research on this subject, using not only Main Stream Medias’ and Civilian Disarmament groups’ provided sources but other sources of information. Please seek out your own sources from all types of places that might have relevant information.”

Everything is my strongly held opinion.