{"id":1121794,"date":"2024-02-03T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/uncategorized\/second-amendment-protects-the-rest-commentary-norfolkdailynews-com-norfolk-daily-news\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T13:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T18:13:59","slug":"second-amendment-protects-the-rest-commentary-norfolkdailynews-com-norfolk-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/second-amendment\/second-amendment-protects-the-rest-commentary-norfolkdailynews-com-norfolk-daily-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Amendment protects the rest | Commentary | norfolkdailynews.com &#8211; Norfolk Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    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.  <\/p>\n<p>    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.  <\/p>\n<p>    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.  <\/p>\n<p>    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.  <\/p>\n<p>    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.  <\/p>\n<p>    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.  <\/p>\n<p>    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.  <\/p>\n<p>    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).  <\/p>\n<p>    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.  <\/p>\n<p>    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.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/norfolkdailynews.com\/commentary\/second-amendment-protects-the-rest\/article_34df289e-c1dc-11ee-8a46-cb156d004c46.html\" title=\"Second Amendment protects the rest | Commentary | norfolkdailynews.com - Norfolk Daily News\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Amendment protects the rest | Commentary | norfolkdailynews.com - Norfolk Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 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.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/second-amendment\/second-amendment-protects-the-rest-commentary-norfolkdailynews-com-norfolk-daily-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193621],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}