What the Arrest of a British Tourist Tells Us About American Civil Rights
America is exceptional not because of its economy, geography, or its history, but because of two paired principles that exist nowhere else in the world with such clarity.
America is exceptional not because of its economy, geography, or its history, but because of two paired principles that exist nowhere else in the world with such clarity.
Nowhere in this country should a citizen be forced to get permission from a government entity to exercise a fundamental right protected by the U.S. Constitution.
In 2025, can we still say that gun rights are winning and nobody has realized it? Well, we can say the first half.
The agency clearly wants to be seen as crusading for gun rights. And Willinger expects the DOJ to ally with gun rights groups in cases in which “it can most successfully characterize state or government actions as motivated by anti-gun animus.”
Male voters are not going to give up their rights just to make Democrats feel good about themselves.
For the progressive left, the age to buy a firearm should be higher (21) and the age to vote lower (16). Considering 18- to 20-year-olds, two questions must be asked to arrive at a moral and logical – if not constitutional – answer.
The answer isn’t more lawsuits, it’s more political firepower. That means mobilizing the grassroots to confront legislators directly, not waiting for a judge to do it for them.
The so-called nuclear option wouldn’t have just reopened the government, it would have dismantled the firewall that has protected gun owners for generations.
As post-pandemic crime levels begin slowly falling back toward 2019 levels, Democrats are patting themselves on the back and claiming their “gun safety” policies deserve the credit.
Most cities have reacted well to the new law. However, there were a few Democratic strongholds scattered throughout the state that didn’t take the change well at all.