Thank you, Edwin, for posting my review of John Zmirak’s book.
I just started a substack page to house publications and interviews if you feel so moved to check it out (no monetary settings are activated).
“That the People have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state.” - George Mason
Nice concepts, but is Osther preaching to the disinterested? That we have fallen so far attests to that. The disinterested, the lazy have let our rights disappear. We have little free speech left and our right to peacefully assemble is dictated by the local police. Second Amendment? Maybe some rights in some of the states. But the gun owners sat back and did nothing while our rights were taken away a little at a time. Now you can own a lower tier weapon, maybe with a permit. Have the same equipment as the police and military? Not by a long shot. The big question is do we have what it takes to reclaim our rights or will we continue to sit on our butts as our rights and liberty are taken away? If you won't fight for your rights you will lose them, forever.
The American People's arms were the major deterrent during WW11, which stopped the Japanese from invading the mainland of America. The first thing that subversives do. who are looking to take over a country... remove all weapons from the people...then walk in with their weapons and takeover. Teddy Roosevelt was right...speak softly... but be able to defend yourself. Weapons don't kill...the psychopaths, criminals and world manipulators who use them will not surrender their arms.
Totally agree. I made many of the same points in my article https://jacksotallaro.substack.com/p/the-2nd-amendment. Without the 2nd Amendment the other 9 of the Bill of Rights would be toothless. Thanks for the article.
It was once the common belief among people in general, and even turned up in sermons, that a failure to defend innocent life, including one's own, was a sin. You must defend your family, help your neighbor if thugs attack him, and a failure to defend one's own life was thought tantamount to the sin of suicide. Willfully being unable to do so would be part and parcel of such a sin, and would mark one as not just a coward but as contributing to evil. The point of this essay is that we are being propagandized into an opposing point of view, one in which it is a supposed virtue to not defend innocent life so that we are more easily controlled.
Thanks, Joachim Osther, for the restack of your article.
A pleasure to have published it, Sir.
I have just discovered Joachim Osther in a reader and publisher on Substack, let's all subscribe to his fine columns. Mr. Osther, thank you.
🙏🏼 much appreciated, sir.
Please, if I can be of any help to you, just ask!
Thank You!
Thanks for the restack, Gbill7.
Truth !
It is why we have the Second, to protect the First.
100%
Mike, thank you for posting my review of John Zmirak’s excellent book. Much appreciated.
If you feel so moved, note that I’ve just started a non-monetized substack page for my publications and interviews.
God bless!
Thank you for posting my review of Zmirak’s excellent book.
Thank you, Edwin, for posting my review of John Zmirak’s book.
I just started a substack page to house publications and interviews if you feel so moved to check it out (no monetary settings are activated).
“That the People have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state.” - George Mason
I, we, will Mr. Osther, or if I should be so forward, Joachim.
Nice concepts, but is Osther preaching to the disinterested? That we have fallen so far attests to that. The disinterested, the lazy have let our rights disappear. We have little free speech left and our right to peacefully assemble is dictated by the local police. Second Amendment? Maybe some rights in some of the states. But the gun owners sat back and did nothing while our rights were taken away a little at a time. Now you can own a lower tier weapon, maybe with a permit. Have the same equipment as the police and military? Not by a long shot. The big question is do we have what it takes to reclaim our rights or will we continue to sit on our butts as our rights and liberty are taken away? If you won't fight for your rights you will lose them, forever.
You probably saw this https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/new_jersey_bans_safe_effective_ammunition.html
Yes, we can’t have effective ammo.
The American People's arms were the major deterrent during WW11, which stopped the Japanese from invading the mainland of America. The first thing that subversives do. who are looking to take over a country... remove all weapons from the people...then walk in with their weapons and takeover. Teddy Roosevelt was right...speak softly... but be able to defend yourself. Weapons don't kill...the psychopaths, criminals and world manipulators who use them will not surrender their arms.
Totally agree. I made many of the same points in my article https://jacksotallaro.substack.com/p/the-2nd-amendment. Without the 2nd Amendment the other 9 of the Bill of Rights would be toothless. Thanks for the article.
Never toothless, the country would be quickly over if we took the teeth out of it (kinda obvious now).
It was once the common belief among people in general, and even turned up in sermons, that a failure to defend innocent life, including one's own, was a sin. You must defend your family, help your neighbor if thugs attack him, and a failure to defend one's own life was thought tantamount to the sin of suicide. Willfully being unable to do so would be part and parcel of such a sin, and would mark one as not just a coward but as contributing to evil. The point of this essay is that we are being propagandized into an opposing point of view, one in which it is a supposed virtue to not defend innocent life so that we are more easily controlled.
https://drp314.substack.com/p/the-demonizing-of-self-defense
Some of us still feel that way.