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Let me take a moment to educate the masses, so to speak not to exclude constitutionalists who spend the vast majority of their time analyzing and dissecting each word and phrase in every amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

There exists a formal and dignified principle that, although unstated, is nevertheless etched in stone. Its non-negotiable. Its cold-blooded, hard-boiled fact. The Second Amendment protects all the rest.

Write that on the bedroom mirror so its the first thing you see when you get out of bed in the morning. Attach it to the door of the refrigerator within which is stored the nutrients nutrients that not only nourish your body but also give you the ability to exercise your mind. Nail it to the blackboard (OK, traditionalist I am) in the classroom that your kids attend so that no socialist-indoctrinated chowderhead can erase it and replace it with some sort of Mandan manifesto hogwash.

Understand, please, that once the Second Amendment is toast (done and dusted, to cite an old Scottish clich) and your right to possess and use firearms is effectively gone, the United States spontaneously becomes Cuba or North Korea or Venezuela or China or Argentina or Australia or Canada? OK, omit the last one, although the tyrannical Trudeau delights in shoving his weight around clamping down on freedoms once naturally assumed by Canadians.

No, I dont claim to be an oracle in any sense, able to see into the future and predict the unraveling of events. That is risky business. But, when my wife said to me, Congratulations, you were certainly right about that, her tone reflected a hint of disappointment that precluded my taking her comment as praise. Her reference, incidentally, was to my prediction that the $80 billion in weaponry left in Afghanistan would end up being used against us perhaps in the Middle East.

Despite claims to the contrary by Biden administration officials, including Jake Sullivan (who knows less about foreign policy than does your average CNN or MSNBC pundit) and John Kirby (who manages to come up with a feeble excuse for every boneheaded decision the Biden crew makes), documentation proves that Hamas gunmen had access to that very arsenal. Anyone who is surprised about that result is much too stupid to deserve a cabinet position in the US military.

But, unabashed ignorance appears in vogue nowadays especially on college and university campuses where liberal professors have corrupted the minds of helpless students whose (im)moral compass knows not which way to turn. The rising tide of anti-semitism (taking the side of terrorists who delight in raping women, burning people alive, and beheading mere children) should stand as a clarifying moment for the country. Its a sign of sheer irrationality. Still, why expect anything different given evidence that recent graduates cant read (beyond fifth-grade level), cant write (aside from crude text messages), cant add (absent computer assistance), and cant subtract (5 - 2 = 4)? Critical thinking skills? In your dreams.

Yes, the rot that defines higher education has been made possible by Harvard-type elites and corporate CEOs (Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.) who are complicit in its destruction (financial contributions and woke foolishness run amok). Public institutions K-12 are failing, also evidenced by poor performance (near the bottom) in key subject areas compared to other industrialized nations ... which may have something to do with the prolonged disinvestment in history and civics education (averaging $0.05 per pupil).

Frankly, what I find most incredibly shameful and alarming is this. At a time when politics (and politicians?) are more divisive than ever, when America is being torn apart by a myriad of societal issues, when the (social) media is a hotbed of impassioned (misinformed and disinformed) opinion, and when youth are more visible as advocates and activists than ever before (incomprehensible Hamas demonstrations notwithstanding), the knowledge of and appreciation for our countrys history is demonstrably at a dangerously low ebb.

Which tells me that our gratitude and gratefulness for constitutional amendments (freedom of speech, especially) is fleeting if not in dire peril and makes it more crucial than ever that folks understand that the Second Amendment protects all the rest.

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