Sorry, Jessica, WE DID VOTE FOR THIS
Supreme Court Hands Trump White House a Major Win, and Slaps Down Justice...
Stephanopoulos Is Under Water With Flood Accusations, and 25 years Is Too Little...
Stealth Bombers and Bunker Busters for Israel?
Philly Drowns in Trash As Union, Mayor Face Off
Karoline Leavitt Delivers Perfect Response to Reporter’s Stupid Question on Texas Flood Al...
Former Mamdani Intern Berates Muslim NYPD Officer at Pro-Palestinian Protest in Resurfaced...
JD Vance Goes Scorched Earth on NYC Muslim Socialist Candidate
FBI Launches Criminal Probe Into Brennan, Comey Over Trump-Russia Misconduct
IRS Announces Churches Can Endorse Political Candidates
TSA Announces Major Airport Change
SCOTUS Greenlights Trump’s 'Wrecking Ball' Federal Job Cuts to Move Forward Amid Ongoing...
Any Palestinian State Is a Way to Destroy Israel, Says Netanyahu
Colombia’s Leftist President Shrinks to Trump with Private Apology After Bizarre Coup Accu...
There’s Been a Disturbing Update Surrounding Laken Riley’s Murderer
OPINION

This Is Why We Must NEVER Give Up Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. EVER!

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.
AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File

I never figured I'd see there be building tensions between the United States and Europe, but here we are.

To be fair, though, there should have been tensions a long time ago. After all, while many European nations like to consider themselves free societies, they're nothing of the sort. For example, gun rights are all but nonexistent for most people there. That's been the case for a long time.

Advertisement

But now, we're seeing that our European "allies" aren't on the same page elsewhere.

Famously, “60 Minutes” did a segment where they followed German law enforcement as they kicked in doors over memes. A more recent example is British police showing up at people's doors to investigate them for criticizing their children's school.

Another example is that yes, you actually can be arrested for praying inside your own home. It's not a blanket ban on prayer in your home or anything, even if you live in close proximity to places like abortion clinics, but you can if you're visible and someone thinks it's "performative," meaning they think you're protesting with that prayer.

Pray in front of your living room window, and the cops might show up.

That's a violation of people's freedom to worship.

Would these European despot — even if they happen to have been democratically elected, they're still despots — have considered any of this if the people had the means to fight back?

Their whole democracy hinges on people being able to decide for themselves how to address their nations’ problems, but when you control how and who people can criticize, you're tilting the machine. You're allowed to downplay the actual problems by limiting what they can say.

Advertisement

So, fighting back at the ballot box isn't going to happen because much of the population is in the dark about how bad some things actually are.

A lot of people here want similar laws. They want the government to step in and fight "misinformation" or "hate speech" and they lament the fact that the First Amendment prevents it.

What really prevents it, though, is knowing that We the People have the means to fight back no matter what they want to do. They can try to silence us but our Founding Fathers knew that was always something tyrants try, which is why the right to keep and bear arms is right there in the Bill of Rights.

Europeans, however, gave up their guns. They bought into the idea that security was more important than liberty, and now they are getting neither.

That's why we can't.

Right now, the tyranny in Europe is subtle. Many who live there are still delusional about the totalitarianism taking shape all around them. By the time they recognize it, it'll be too late to do anything about it.

If we give up our gun rights, that's what will happen here, too.

How long before the cops show up at your house because you recognize that your school sucks and actually say so? How long before a meme on X gets your door kicked in by the police? How long before all of our rights are stripped away because the elites have decided we're not worthy of being trusted with those rights?

Advertisement

Liberty can be kept, to a point, via the ballot box.

But while you can vote yourself into just about anything, there are some things you can only shoot your way out of.

That only works if you have guns in the first place.

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement