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The Tradition of the Citizen-soldier was a cherished tradition of the old republic but sadly we've decayed so much people call this tradition fascist. The channel Pilgrims Pass talks about this tradition in some of his videos. Peace

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Excellent essay. What's fascinating about this "debate," as if handing a gun out to anyone who crosses the border is somehow a good thing, is how even JFK understood the linkage between the right to bear arms and the citizenry.

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life"

Now that we have a nation in the abstract, our rights are becoming more abstract as well.

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Why would constitutional rights apply to a non-citizen. Why the fuck even be a us citizen if it means you have to pay taxes, but the government just shits on you because illegals are our future?

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a lack of stakeholders in a society leads to a society's disintegration

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Excellent piece. Reaching out to and indoctrinating the Boogaloo coalition should be a high priority. Not only are they misguided tactically, but they are infantile in terms of philosophy. They dont get to have their absolutist Libertarian 2A rights, and a nation, too.

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Working on that as we speak

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Hope that’s not too confusing to explain but you’re dealing with a chimp.

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Not at all! I understand what you mean

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Ok that’s good. I get on tangents and hyper focus on little things and it’s only getting worse the older I get.

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We forget our origins in Old Germania where men were under arms. Great article and a fantastic way to link the two together. Weapons in the common context equal responsibility.

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True. The Germans were outside the scope of my article but they have their own part of the tradition

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Well by Germanics I meant Anglo-Saxon/Nords not specifically “Germans” but I see and know what you are saying, the little details I’m caught up on. I’m going to be using this article though in future exploration (not literally using it but in “theology”).

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Exactly. It's a strategic move, not an ideological one. Ever since 1994 the 2A crowd knows you can't give them an inch anymore, even for something reasonable, because they'll leverage it to infringe upon the rights of law-abiding Americans.

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