Victor Davis Hanson just laid it out plainly. The Left is teetering on the edge of sedition, radical violence, and outright insurrection.
And if his warnings are true – if we’re entering an era where mobs take to the streets, where assassination attempts become normalized, and where Congress members are pressured to use violence to advance a radical agenda – then let’s be blunt:
Your right to keep and bear arms has never been more important.
Hanson highlighted disturbing incidents that should wake up even the most politically apathetic American:
- Organized assassination attempts have targeted ICE agents simply for doing their jobs.
- Ten armed radicals were arrested after shooting an ICE agent in the neck.
- Democrat members of Congress admit constituents are calling for them to use violence or be willing to die to push their agendas.
- A Democrat official turned the tragic deaths of children in Texas into a racial issue.
Hanson called it “insurrection.” He’s right.
But let’s take his analysis one step further. If mobs and politicians are now merging into a single violent revolutionary bloc, what’s left for ordinary citizens?
They tell you to call the police – but they’re defunding them.
They tell you to rely on institutions – but those institutions are increasingly lawless, partisan, and weaponized.
And, they tell you to just vote harder – but their own leaders are egging on violence when votes don’t go their way.
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Here’s the bottom line:
If Victor Davis Hanson is correct, the Second Amendment isn’t just important – it is the last firewall against chaos.
These radicals don’t just want power. They want submission. They want citizens defenseless in the face of ideological terror. When the mob arrives on your block – or when a politically motivated prosecutor lets them off – you’ll wish you had what they want to take away: your arms, your autonomy, your security.
As Hanson noted, this rage is fueled by the Left’s loss of institutional control. Their media monopoly is crumbling. Their political majority has evaporated. And, their grip on cultural power is slipping. And they are lashing out like cornered animals.
That is precisely why the Founders wrote the Second Amendment. Not for hunting. Not for sport. But for the dark days when tyranny stops wearing a badge and starts wearing a mob’s mask.
So yes, Victor Davis Hanson has a point. And his point proves ours: the 2A remains America’s final guarantee that liberty can survive the madness.
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Lol. Jan 6th apologists accusing left of insurrection. Anything to distract from Trump on the Epstein list.
Damn!!…So surprised to see DemocRATS here. The same ones who want to ban guns except the ones they can steal to commit crimes.😖
Yeh…they have already turned to violence. Time for an eye for an eye. ( -_•)▄︻テحكـ━一💥
Yeh…they have already turned to violence. Time for an eye for an eye.( -_•)▄︻テحكـ━一💥
Will they start? Get your head out of sand and look around. They have already started! The government needs to bring the hammer down on those pathetic fascists and quash that crap!
This is an absurd analysis of the situation, just parroting the MAGA regimes talking points to further install Trump’s police state. If you think they wont eventually come after gun owners, you are fools. This is Hitler 2.0. If aren’t familiar with how democracy was destroyed in Germany you should educate yourselves.
What has he done to make it a Police State? Round up the 20,000,000 Illegals O’Biden let in?
BULLSHIT! What a bunch of neofascist, right wing bullshit! I guess he chooses to ignore January 6th? Promoting ridiculousness like this IS THE PROBLEM! GROW UP!
J6? Wasn’t that where Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed while crawling through a window by a worthless coward, Lt. Byrd. Wasn’t that where the incompetent Byrd was awarded the highest civilian award for shooting the veteran while no immediate threat was posed? Wasn’t J6 where several Trump supporters including Boyland and CPO Sicknick all were determined to die of natural causes? Wasn’t J6 where several former supporters of BHO attended the protest and died soon after attending that event including Babbit?
Did you even watch the video? VDH raises several specific points including the shooting of US House Republican Steven Scalise, not to mention Crooks and the other would-be assassin. If anything, the article and video does not go far enough. The left has always been vicious well before the French Revolution where people were put to death because their family relations. As history attests, the left ultimately turns of their own. Stalin displayed that fact and killed millions until a handful of Jewish doctors poisoned him. Yes, even Stalin was killed by his own movement after killing so many comrades. After giving a speech on internal enemies, revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre was arrested by his cohorts and put to death the next day. The left has an insane political standard that any and all members will eventually fail to match in extremism.
If the extremist left ever takes over people like you will probably be arrested and exterminated very early in the revolution.
Dano…you grow TF up. Dems been hoodwinking and bamboozling peeps since they fought to keep slaves, the KKK, Jim Crow. Now fighting to keep their illegal slave labor.
What a load of bull shit. Who stormed the capitol because they didn’t like the election results? Who just murdered Minnesota legislators? Who has bombed fertility clinics, planned parenthood clinics and assassinated doctors? Yes the left is simmering at the nazi teactics of the current administration and are more than pissed off at the orange buffoons international stupidity.
The vast majority of Jan 6 people were peaceful with many being invited in by the police and escorted around the Capital. Then were treated worse than a drug dealer and definitely worse than the leftist rioters who throw rocks at ICE and have tried to kill federal agents since 2020. There were government assets in the crowd encouraging people to go into the building. They also trespassed, if we are using the same criteria, into place they were not allowed to go. Nothing happened to them. There were leftists’ agitators in the crowd goading people on. The only person killed was Ashly Babbitt in what I would clearly call a bad shoot. It was a leftist Walz appointee who murdered the people in MN. I pay pretty good attention and don’t recall the last planned parenthood office being bombed. One PPH doctor was killed like 30 years ago that I recall. The left is bombing fertility clinics. This is easy to surmise since the Biden FBI did nothing about it. Trump is winning all over to the benefit of the American people. That is unless you’re a lazy healthy person who wants to live on the government/taxpayer money.
No one stormed the capital John! And I’m pretty sure it was a Democrat, who was given a job by Tampon Tim, who murdered Minnesota politicians!
And first and foremost, President Trump used the word peaceful and peacefully that day, MULTIPLE TIMES! President Trump even requested the National Guard! But Nancy Pelosi turned his request down.
And no John, they weren’t insurrectionists. They weren’t armed. They didn’t sat anything on inside, or outside, that I’m aware of anyhow either.
In fact John, they were let in and they were escorted around! Or have you not seen, or watched the videos? Did you not see the video of the security guard, you know, the ones so afraid, literally turn their back on these so called, insurrectionists? What about the video of two of them fist bumping a so called insurrectionist? Or have you seen these videos and you’re just blind, ignorant and foolish?!
But seriously, John, this isn’t bullshit and what he’s saying, or well, said, isn’t bullshit!
Tell me one time people in the right protested and then proceeded to throw rocks and other projectiles at law enforcement? Cars? When have they ever flipped cars upside down and set them on fire? Destroyed property and businesses? Looted in the name of peaceful protests?
No John, this isn’t bullshit! It’s a reality. In fact, it’s a soon to be and FAFO reality!
GYHOOYA John!
The left immortalizes the storming of the Winter Palace or the Bastille and the wave of death that followed was a welcome cleansing of the political landscape. The very “select committee” on J6 left many questions unanswered including a very strange bomber who was one of the few suspects never caught by the largest manhunt in history. Surely, there were many agents’ provocateur like Roy Epps who caused much of the violence.
Yeah, who was Vance Boelter? Too early to determine, although being appointed by Tim Walz is a good place to start. Guy Edward Bartkus nihilist with no connection to the any right leanings.
Both the left and right have had extremists that have been violent. If you want to make an argument trying to absolve the left then go ahead and try. You will lose. Your initial post was very weak.
John so misinformed….DemocRATS did all you just mentioned just like Guy House of Lexington Kentucky who shot the cop yesterday and attempted the carjacking.😝
A J6 Insurrection who were invited in by waving cops. Then take selfies with their Cameras. The only ones packing were the FBI plants and peeps like Ray Epps working with Chris Wray’s corrupt FBI.🥴😫R
You people are so delusional. The January 6 insurrection was just that. Not peaceful, not guys being guided around by the capitol police, – they busted their way in, injured the police, trashed the place. The bitch that got killed was threatening and refused to back off. As far as the right wing idiot that assassinated two Minnesota legislators, he was a member of a bipartisan committee put together by the administration prior to Governor Waltz taking office. The committee was simply reconfirmed. You dips do know what “bipartisan” means, right.
sure looks like they already have
I am a 70 yr. old man. I am a veteran, a boy scout, and a patriot. I try to follow laws, but the demoncrats just won’t let that be. They make useless laws that serve no purpose other than to step on our toes. So let them come. We, the people, are waiting.
WILL they turn to violence? Looks to me like they did 5 years ago and continue to this day. But of course the lying liberal media like the Calamity News Network, MSDNC, ABC, NBC, CBS, and others will never report it.
civil war 2.0 is going to be one sided against them since they hate guns!
Oh really? The Communist terror group called Antifa recently attacked an ICE installation with ten or more of their idiots wearing military body armor and carrying AR’s. All members should be arrested immediately as terrorists and for bearing arms against the United States. They will have guns whether they buy them, steal them or make them. In the Argentine dirty war the communist terrorists there manufactured working versions of Karl Gustav 9mm subguns and RPG launchers and rockets. Basement manufacturing has come a long way since then.
no worry, they are all hollywood trained and as evidenced they cut and run when reality sets in.