Why to the Departments of Education and Agriculture Need ‘Weapons of War?’

Democrats want to ban citizens from owning AR15s, but they insist the Department of Education can’t complete its mission without AR15s. I say the Second Amendment guarantees the right of the people to own AR15s, and the Dept of Education should be banned!pic.twitter.com/K7kQN9nt9W

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 13, 2024

The entire reason we have the Bill of Rights is there are certain rights that have to be reserved to the people, not government. And Mr. Massie’s amendment shows how this legislation has turned the Constitution and Bill of Rights on its head. It takes powers reserved to the people and it deprives the people of those powers and rights, and then it reserves – explicitly – the very same rights for the government. Not for the military, but for the deputy commissar of pencil erasers at the Department of Education.

They want you weak and the government strong. They want you disarmed and the government armed to the teeth.

I’m reminded of a quote from Austin Powers where Austin Power introduces one of his colleagues as a representative of the militant wing of the Salvation Army. I didn’t know we had a militant wing of the Department of Education or the USDA. But I am certainly aware that our fellow Americans are concerned about a very troubling trend where these bureaucracies are getting their own militias and arsenals.

It would probably surprise most Americans that just this year, the IRS has purchased $700,000 worth of ammunition. So when you peel back all the layers of the onion, the party of big government isn’t actually against guns and ammo. They’re just against you having them. Because they want a citizenry that is repressed and dominated and ultimately subjected.

And by the way, our Founders were so brilliant they knew this would happen. And they knew that the Second Amendment wasn’t going to be about hunting or self defense, but about curating an appropriate balance that is necessary for a free society where we don’t have to live in fear that one day, some deputy administrator from the Department of Education is going to knock our door down, and that as a result of our not having the appropriate protractor, we’re going to somehow be in a disadvantageous position regarding our safety, and far more important, our liberty.

— Rep. Matt Gaetz