The radical left cannot push its agenda much further without first disarming us. The Deep State has discussed framing political dissent as a “public health” crisis. Considering what they got away with regarding Covid tyranny, it was a no-brainer that Democrats would take the same approach toward our right of self-defense.

On behalf of the Biden Regime, AP proclaims:

The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country.

Why there might be an increase in firearm incidents following the war on local police liberals have conducted in the name of their lord George Floyd remains unmentioned.

The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation’s top doctor, came as the U.S. grappled with another summer weekend marked by mass shootings that left dozens of people dead or wounded.

This is why Democrats go out of their way to encourage urban crime, with top Democrat donor George Soros spending a fortune to install pro-criminal DAs like Alvin Bragg throughout the country. The violence can be exploited as a pretext.

To drive down gun deaths, Murthy calls on the U.S. to ban automatic rifles, introduce universal background checks for purchasing guns, regulate the industry, pass laws that would restrict their use in public spaces and penalize people who fail to safely store their weapons.

After taking these steps, progressives would take the next ones and the next after those, until they have rendered us defenseless.

Murthy has exploited his position to attack the right all other rights rest on before:

It was the NRA, and Republicans who enjoy the powerful gun lobby’s support, that almost derailed Murthy’s confirmation as surgeon general a decade ago. Murthy became quieter on the issue of gun violence after his past statements almost cost him the job. He ended up promising the Senate that he did “not intend to use my office as surgeon general as a bully pulpit on gun control.”

But everyone knows what a promise from a politician is worth.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

For mysterious reasons, Democrats have gone out of their way to encourage violent crime in the past few years, deifying lowlife criminals, hamstringing local law enforcement, and allowing violent sociopaths to run amok. Montgomery, Alabama Mayor Steven Reed may have given the game away while attempting to pass the buck for the Democrat crime crisis:

After a recent slew of shootings in Montgomery that have killed or permanently maimed innocent bystanders, hundreds of residents have swarmed Montgomery city council meetings, criticizing the city’s leadership and calling for action. …

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed, his chief of staff Chip Hill, and Montgomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey blamed the crime wave on the legislature passing permitless carry.

Allowing law-abiding citizens to defend themselves from the criminals Democrats so aggressively champion is what causes violent crime. Disarm them and the violence will disappear.

Not being the idiots their leftist rulers take them for, Americans have been heading in the opposite direction in response to the collapse of law & order under Democrats:

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) announced on Wednesday that since 2020, more than 22 million Americans have purchased a firearm for the very first time. Sixteen million of those firearms have been purchased during Biden’s occupation of the Oval Office. …

Pew Research confirmed the fact that personal protection is far and away the most important reason gun owners have a firearm, far more than for hunting or sport shooting.

Pew also uncovered another important fact: Half of those not owning a firearm see themselves as purchasing one in the future.

That won’t happen if it is up to Democrats, who know their agenda cannot be imposed on a population able to defend itself.

In the meantime, even in liberal Connecticut:

A predominantly Black neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, hoping to fend off violent crime, has turned to an armed group of citizens to patrol their streets by land and by air.

The so-called “Self-Defense Brigade” — made up of about 40 legally armed citizens — are voluntarily patrolling the streets of Hartford’s North End wearing body cameras mostly on nights and weekends, according to the group’s founder, Cornell Lewis.

The volunteers also use drones and home surveillance cameras to defend public safety.

“The Democratic machine in Hartford is either unwilling or unable, incapable of doing it, and people are paying their tax dollars, and they’re not really getting any kind of service,” Lewis told Fox News. “So we want the people to understand, number one, self-defense is not a dirty word.”

Hartford’s Democratic Mayor Arunan Arulampalam has predictably denounced the group, bleating nauseatingly:

“Our community has seen so much pain and trauma, and what we need is for those who love this city to do the hard work of healing that pain, not walk around our streets with guns trying to take the law into their own hands.”

Just down I-91, New Haven’s Democratic Mayor Justin Elicker doesn’t like the Self-Defense Brigade either. He yelps:

“We need fewer guns on our street, not more.”

Simplistic bumper sticker slogans of that sort get traction in the muddled minds of Democrat voters, driven home by the partisan media.

Disarming potential victims does not make them safer. Yet Democrats may believe they can leverage crime to push through further restrictions on our right to defend ourselves. That may even be the point of causing the crime.

On tips from Chuck A, WDS 2.0, and Wiggins.

A maniac may be psychotic enough to buy into liberal race ideology and still know what’s what. Joshua Cobb wisely planned his mass shooting of random Caucasians for a gun-free zone:

A 23-year-old Marine from Trenton, New Jersey is facing federal charges after repeatedly discussing his plans for a mass shooting targeting white people, and one of those statements indicates he had picked out a “gun free zone” where the attack would take place.

You don’t want your victims shooting back. That’s when they cease to be victims.

Picking a gun-free zone requires minimal intelligence. Cobb was still dumb enough to say this on social media:

“The reason I specifically want to target White people is because, as a black male, they will NEVER understand my struggles. … I want to erase them. All of them really, but in this case as many as I possibly can.”

So far, it sounds like a guest editorial in the Washington Post. But then he gets more concrete:

“I have a location in mind already which I have frequented for the past year and I am certain nobody there is armed to be able to stop me from spraying them to the ground. I have already acquired 2 of the 4 firearms I plan to use for my attack…”

That’s pushing Critical Race Theory slightly too far, even for the Biden Era.

According to federal prosecutors, Joshua Cobb first started talking about his plans on social media in November, 2022, several months before he enlisted in the Marines. It’s unclear why Cobb wasn’t arrested until last week, but prosecutors say he made several posts over the past 18 months where he discussed his plans to “cause mayhem on the White community.”

Maybe Soros-appointed DAs were hoping to give him a chance to go through with it. He might still, if a judge like Lloyd U. Nolan Jr. lets him loose.

On a tip from Straight Shootr.

The precious Second Amendment, upon which all our other liberties rest, read as follows:

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.

The text is different now that prominent Democrat congresscritter Jerrold Nadler has amended it:

Nadler was speaking in opposition to H.R. 354, which would reform the Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act that recognizes the right of law enforcement officers to carry a concealed weapon in certain federal facilities and across state lines, whether off duty or retired.

He said he was quoting the Second Amendment. Actually, he misquoted it by leaving out the crucial words “of the people.”

No one expects Democrats to be enthused about our right to defend ourselves. However,

as a member of Congress who has sworn a solemn oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, including those parts with which he may disagree, Nadler’s omission demonstrates something more like contempt than principled opposition.

Behold the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, who will presumably once again be the Chair if Democrats take Congress:

On tips from ABC of the ANC and WDS 2.0.

On a tip from Jester.

We have confirmation that, having plunged off a cliff into abject leftism, the state of New York is no longer part of the USA in any meaningful sense. Consequently, the US Constitution does not apply in this woke dystopia:

[Dexter] Taylor, a 52-year-old New York native and a software engineer, discovered the world of gunsmithing years ago. He decided to take it up as a hobby and possibly turn it into a business later. However, when a joint ATF/NYPD task force discovered he was legally buying parts from various companies, they opened up an investigation that led to a SWAT raid and arrest.

This landed him in the maw of the New York judicial system — not a good place to be unless you are a criminal.

He is currently being jailed on Rikers Island as he awaits sentencing.

The sentencing is not expected to go well. To quote the presiding judge, Abena Darkeh (seriously, that’s her name),

“Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.”

As you might expect, the trial was a farce. Taylor’s lawyer characterized Judge Darkeh as “the most aggressive prosecutor in the room.” It was not Taylor who was on trial, but the US Constitution. The jury obediently found it guilty.

Any Americans still residing in New York are advised to get out while you still can. It’s too late for Dexter Taylor, who might get up to 18 years in prison for exercising a constitutional right while harming no one.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

When last we tipped our hats to the esteemed countermoonbat (and congressional candidate) Lily Tang Williams, this survivor of Mao Zedong’s regime was warning us of the similarity between communist indoctrination behind the Bamboo Curtain and the malevolent moonbattery taught in our public schools. Now she steps forward with a flyswatter to deal with David Hogg, who exploited a school shooting to launch his career as an activist against gun rights:

There is only one guarantee that the US government will not become as tyrannical as China’s. It is not a piece of paper. It is the fact that we are armed.

On a tip from StephaneDumas.

Moonbats bark a lot about equity, but they oppose equity when it comes to self-defense. You won’t read heroic stories like this one unless law-abiding citizens have access to an equalizer:

[An] 85-year-old Idaho woman named Christine Jenneiahn experienced the unthinkable when her home was broken into by a suspect, identified as 39-year-old Derek Condon who handcuffed and threatened her with a gun.

The intruder broke into the home she shared with her disabled son during the night wearing a black ski mask like liberal idol of the hour Dexter Reed.

“Subsequent investigation indicates a strong likelihood that Condon struck Jenneiahn in the head as she lay in her bed,” the review said, noting there was blood on the pillow and floor in the bedroom.

The suspect reportedly took Jenneiahn into the living room where he handcuffed her to a chair.

When he left her alone to ransack the house, she managed to drag the chair to where she kept a .357, which she was forced to use.

The scumbag returned fire, striking her several times. Fortunately, he then died of his wounds.

In the most liberal jurisdictions, authorities reflexively side with criminals against their victims. Good thing this happened in Idaho:

Idaho’s self-defense law states, “No person in this state shall be placed in legal jeopardy of any kind whatsoever for protecting himself.”

Rather than Jenneiahn being prosecuted as would likely happen in New York, she received the praise she richly deserves:

The March incident was “one of the most heroic acts of self-preservation,” the county prosecutor wrote in a review posted to Facebook by the Bingham County Sheriff’s Office.

It is a blessing to have elders we can admire and strive to emulate.

On tips from Straight Shootr and WDS 2.0.

The correlation between moonbattery and the suppression of the fundamental right of self-defense is confirmed by a ranking of the worst states for gun owners by Ammo.com.

Rankings are based on “each state’s current laws, upcoming laws, concealed carry guidelines, self-defense statutes, and 2A-centric taxes in order to identify the worst states for gun owners in 2024.”

The worst state is of course the one liberals are using as a template for what they want to inflict on the rest of the country. California is unsurprisingly followed by the deep blue dystopias New York and Illinois, with lefty-dominated New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Michigan, and Hawaii rounding out the bottom 10.

New Hampshire comes in as the #1 best place for gun owners. Uncoincidentally, it is also the state with the lowest rate of violent crime.

Click through to see where your state stands and why.

If anything should raise a red flag, this is it:

The announcement coincided with this:

On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school and announced three quarters of a billion dollars being dedicated to securing more red flag laws.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was the sight of the infamous 2018 Parkland, Florida school shooting, confirming Democrats’ eagerness to exploit tragedies resulting from failures in law enforcement and mental health treatment in order to attack our right of self-defense.

Even in the context of the ongoing Biden looting spree that has destabilized the economy, $750,000,000 is a lot of money. Big Government doesn’t need that much to notice that people like Nikolas Cruz belong in padded cells. However, it might be needed to ensure we don’t kick up too much of a fuss if extreme measures are required to keep Biden or rather his handlers in power.

As for the effectiveness of red flag laws for reducing mass shootings,

Harris did not mention that California adopted a red flag law in 2014, according to Giffords. However, FBI data showed that California led the nation in “active shooter incidents” in 2021.

So long as our right to bear arms is acknowledged, this is essentially a free country going through a rough patch. We won’t reach the end game until Democrats have tried to disarm us.

On tips from Wiggins, R F, Anonymous, and WDS 2.0. Hat tip: Pirate’s Cove.

Leftists have deliberately driven the rate of violent crime into the stratosphere by defunding/hamstringing local police, leaving the border open to foreign criminals, letting George Soros install DAs throughout the country, releasing criminals without bail, et cetera. The effort is so concerted that it must be intended to advance a major item on the liberal agenda. One possibility is that Democrats are setting the stage for the confiscation of firearms. Since they control the mainstream media, they are able to dupe the gullible into believing that it is not the lethal combination of criminals and liberal policy that causes crime, but rather guns. In reality, more guns = less crime, as Ammo.com has stats to confirm:

• 53% of the 21 states with restrictive concealed carry laws have violent crime rates higher than the national average.

• 55% of states with a violent crime rate below the national average have permitless carry.

• Between 60,000 and 2.5 million Americans use firearms for self-defense each year.

• 40% of criminals convicted of crimes while in possession of a firearm were already prohibited from carrying firearms.

Per 2022 data, Wyoming had the fewest firearms-related homicides of any state. Care to guess which state had the most firearms per person? Here’s a clue:

States with the highest rates of gun ownership have the fewest gun crimes per the ATF eTrace.

As for preventing crime, 68% of felons use illegal guns anyway. Disarming their victims will increase crime, not reduce it.

Click through for more data that information gatekeepers would prefer you not to see.

When the leftist ruling class has implemented its agenda, we will live like slaves, without property, without independent transportation, subsisting on insects, lacking fundamental rights like free speech. To ensure our compliance, controlling the media is not enough. They will have to disarm us. That will require them to know where the guns are, so they can be confiscated. Consequently, on Friday the California legislature introduced a bill to require homeowner insurance companies to collect this information on behalf of Big Government:

The Residential property insurance firearms bill AB-3067 is an addition to Section 2086 of the Insurance Code, and would require insurers to “update the contents of their applications for homeowners’ or renters’ insurance to include the questions regarding the presence, storage, and number of firearms by January 1, 2026.”

This is not about insurance:

It would then require an insurer to “annually report the information gathered from the questions regarding the presence, storage, and number of firearms to the Department of Insurance and the Legislature beginning on January 1, 2027.”

What flies in California will soon be imposed on the rest of us — possibly including even Gavin Newsom.

On a tip from Wiggins.