Stan Johnson

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The gun is the most misunderstood object in Western civilization. Not a weapon. A technology. The technology that made the idea of equality physically real.

1. The longbow democratized warfare – a peasant could kill a knight with a stick and a string, and Agincourt proved it. The gun completed the process. The armored warrior class whose claim to social dominance rested on physical superiority became obsolete. The aristocratic monopoly on violence ended not with a philosophy but with a mechanism. The gun is the physical enforcement of the idea that all men are created equal. Which is why the American founders put it in the second amendment – not as an afterthought, but as the guarantee of everything else.

2. The Roman citizen had the right to bear arms. The Greek citizen had it. The English yeoman had it. The Swiss canton built its entire civilization on it. The disarming of the population has always been, in every civilization, in every century, the first act of the government that intends to stop being answerable to that population. Show me a disarmed population and I will show you a population that lost something else shortly after.

3. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is not about sport. It is about the relationship between the armed citizen and the state – the explicit constitutional acknowledgment that the citizen’s right to defend himself, his family, and his civilization against any threat, including the government itself, is not granted by the state and cannot be revoked by it. Power flows upward from the armed citizen, not downward from the armed state.

4. The gun defends the family. The woman alone with her children. The farmer on the edge of civilization. The shopkeeper in the neighborhood the police no longer patrol. The gun is the equalizer – the technology that makes the physical difference between a large man and a small woman irrelevant. Every argument for disarmament is, at its core, an argument that the state will protect you better than you can protect yourself. The evidence for this proposition is not encouraging.

5. In Europe, the disarmament is now nearly complete – and it happened precisely as the state’s ability and willingness to protect its citizens began to decline. The timing is not coincidental. A population that cannot defend itself must trust the state to defend it – which is a population that cannot effectively question whether the state is doing so. The dependency is the design.

6. The gun is a civilizational technology in the deepest sense: it requires responsibility, judgment, and the willingness to accept the consequences of your decisions. You cannot outsource it. You cannot have a committee fire it. It is the most anti-bureaucratic object ever invented – a direct, personal, consequential instrument that puts the full weight of the decision on the individual holding it. Which is precisely why the administrative state finds it intolerable. Not because it is dangerous. Because it is sovereign.

7. The family that can defend itself does not depend on the state for its most fundamental security. The civilization that can defend itself has not yet outsourced its survival to an institution that will negotiate the terms of that survival on its own behalf. The gun determines who controls violence – and therefore who controls everything that violence can threaten. Which is everything. The Sobieski who rode down the hill had a sword and sixty thousand horsemen. The equivalent today is the armed citizen who understands what he is defending and why. Every civilization that forgot this discovered it the hard way. The ones that remembered it are still here.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Official transcript from the US Senate on May 30, 1866. Senator Jacob Howard, who introduced the 14th Amendment:

"This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens...”

SCOTUS got this ruling 100% wrong. A total travesty.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Well said

[Naval @naval]

Software went from desktop-first to mobile-first, now going to agent-first.

[Gummi @gummibear737]

Do you want to know what Israel does?

What Israel does is prevent the United States from needing to have a much larger military presence in the Middle East

What Israel does is what Europeans failed to do in Europe with regards to Russia

That's what Israel does

[Gummi @gummibear737]

Trump’s preemptive military action against Iran is necessary and brave...it had to be done

"The only way to find out a threat was imminent is to suffer the consequences of not acting preemptively"

But regardless the outcome, his enemies will use it to try and destroy his legacy

[Gummi @gummibear737]

Please read and bookmark (to share) this evisceration of the “Iran was not an imminent threat” NPCs out there

Stop listening to retarded “trust me bros” or libtards consumed by Trump and Israel Derangement Syndrome

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

https://t.co/t95hiuYkIr

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Amazing science experiments to do with your kids this weekend.

[Stan Johnson @stanjstanj]

https://t.co/fKWGOJIY47

[Stan Johnson @stanjstanj]

@Nairanarra I have one and it Works BUT you have to pull about 25-30 times. Gets old

[Stan Johnson @stanjstanj]

@MattWallace888 You lose credibility with this post. Fight fight fight is not always a call to violence. It is said many times on the right. I do not agree with 99% of what he said, but I assume what you are trying to highlight is the call to fight.

[Stan Johnson @stanjstanj]

@musk_news13 Thanks!

[Stan Johnson @stanjstanj]

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[Stan Johnson @stanjstanj]

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[Gummi @gummibear737]

I don’t trust that people will do the right thing given power, because they almost never do

But I’m not blindly cynical…I’m very enthusiastic about what Trump 47 will do

But that doesn’t mean I’m not paying attention and won’t be critical if called for

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

Free people make free choices. Free choices mean you get unequal outcomes.

You can have freedom, or you can have equal outcomes. You can’t have both.

@naval

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Liberalism is the belief in individual rights, limited government, free speech, and private property.

Leftism is the belief in collective rights, total government, censorship, and public ownership.

They are not the same.

In fact, they are opposites.

[Stan Johnson @stanjstanj]

@gummibear737 9

[Keith Kellogg @generalkellogg]

Vice President Harris is a fraud. I was in the White House at a senior level much longer than General Kelly. He is complicit in this fraud and has lied to the American people. His lies, as well as John Bolton's, are a disservice to Nation at this critical time. So are the VP's.