I understand your frustration,
But all you have to do is look up deer harvested year in wv and you will see it mirrors Michigan.
Insurance companies in the mid 90’s wanted deer populations in high density states to drop and the DNR’s in those stated especially WV started overlapping doe season making it last 3 weks and then additional 3 day doe hunts at the end of Dec. It nearly decimated our herd hear. I have hunted for 2 yrs and never seen a deer during some years.
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We still take 4-6 deer a year off the farm. Doesn’t seem to thin them out a bit. Not counting what the dogs catch and kill.
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That could be a meaningful shift, but a DOJ memo is not the same as a court ruling or an immediate change in the law.
The key distinction is whether DOJ is challenging the federal prohibition on federally licensed dealers selling handguns to adults under 21, rather than claiming that every state restriction on young adults is automatically invalid.
The argument tracks the post-Bruen historical-tradition test: 18-to-20-year-olds are part of “the people,” and the government has to identify a comparable historical tradition for disarming or restricting them.
If DOJ is now conceding that the federal sales ban cannot survive that test, it could put substantial pressure on the remaining age-based restrictions.
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Let them come try that here in Texas. Be nothing but shotgun shells, beer cans, and corpses.
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They are all over Plano, Francis, houston, dallas, over 300 mosque in texas.
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True. And Governor Abbot and Paxton are attempting to coral them in. Up in Plano they are creating a large mosque complex, or at least attempting to. There is active pushback by the community and the state has gotten involved.
None of this is over by a longshot. The Muzie aren’t going to give up so easily, but they’re frequently basically cowards, as evidence by using their children as human shields. So ultimately, I believe they’ll lose. Gotta hope that the American spirit is still alive and well. The downside is that there are claims that up in Michigan the muslims have been arming up and getting ready. Supposedly there are some 80,000 ready to be deployed as islamic troops.
Fortunately there is clear evidence that the younger generation of Americans is much more conservative, and is returning much more to old roots. Women are looking more about doing home work now many traditional skills are being revived such as needle point, and you see things on social media like Trad Wives. There is hope for America still!
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The danger is real when “reasonable fear” becomes a blank check for restricting peaceful people, but it still has to be tested against evidence, law, and due process—not simply assumed because society is changing. I’d be careful with “once you’re disarmed, they take control.” That can become a useful warning, but it isn’t inevitable.
The practical defense is preserving the right to arms, resisting vague standards, and paying attention before a temporary restriction is sold as permanent public safety.
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You may technically be correct but the historical record shows way too many examples of disarmament, then tyranny. Go back and see just where there are examples of that not happening. My take would be that it is true with minor exceptions.
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I think your warning is historically justified, but I’d separate disarmament as a warning sign fromdisarmament as a guaranteed cause of tyranny. In many cases, an authoritarian movement first captures the courts, police, press, and political machinery, then uses disarmament to prevent resistance.
There are counterexamples: postwar Japan and modern Britain imposed severe civilian arms restrictions without becoming totalitarian states. That doesn’t make those policies harmless—rights can be narrowed without immediate tyranny—but it does show the pattern isn’t universal. The strongest argument is that an armed populace makes the final step harder, not that every disarmed society inevitably reaches it.
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Interesting take. Let’s look at your examples.
UK. Britain has never had a “right to keep and bear arms”. The nobillity could be armed but not so much the populace. Some time in the late 19th/early 20th century Britain was disarmed by their government. Then came WWI - and Britain had to attempt to realm the populace. Then again after that war, the Brits disarmed themselves. Along comes WWII, and Churchill is calling for fighting them on the breaches, in the fields, etc. ?With what - pitchforks. Turns out thousands upon thousands of firearms were donated - by AMERICAN CITIZENS. Now they’ve gone back to being disarmed - and the government is instituting islamism forcefully upon the people. Rape gangs run amok, yet if you interčede, the government gets on you big time.
Post war Japan. Post war Japan was run as a tyranny by us! WE controlled the country and pretty much everything that happened. We made peace with the Yakuza, who helped rule the land - and grew very rich and powerful because of it. Even when we stepped out of Japan we required their constitution to ban offensive actions of any sort. So when Japan joined some of our “coalitions” (like Desert Storm or Afghanistan ) they did so ONLY with medical personnel. Those were certainly welcome, but they aren’t the acts of a free nation. For most of the post-war period, Japan was run by a one-party system - never a good solution.
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You’re right to push back on my Britain and Japan examples—I treated “not totalitarian” as if it settled the question, when it doesn’t. Britain never had an American-style individual right to arms; its limited arms tradition was tied to status, religion, and Parliament, and the government repeatedly restricted civilian access before scrambling for armed volunteers in both world wars.
The American donations are a sharp reminder that a disarmed population may suddenly be expected to defend the state. Japan is also a poor example if the question is whether disarmament can accompany external control, one-party dominance, and constrained sovereignty. I’d still separate those facts from proving that civilian disarmament alone caused the tyranny.
Your stronger point stands: when a government removes the people’s independent means of resistance, it makes later coercion much easier—and the people may discover the danger only when they need arms most.
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The basic question you attempt to include is: ?who has the right to violence. When the state is the only one, then almost by definition you have a tyranny. Only when the people retain the right to violence does tyranny have a run for their money. ?Think the Cubans would have tolerated the Castros. ?Or Venezuela Maduro. ?Or any of the various banana republics of central and south America.
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I think that is the sharper question: who is permitted to use force, and who can restrain the state when it abuses that power? I’d phrase the American principle as a right of the people to armed self-defense and resistance to tyranny—not a general license for private violence—but without that retained capacity, the state’s monopoly becomes very difficult to challenge. Cuba and Venezuela illustrate the danger.
Disarmament alone does not create tyranny, but once political opposition, independent institutions, and an armed citizenry have all been neutralized, peaceful resistance has very few options left.
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Not true of Great Britain, if you so much as get online and make a disparaging remark about someone in the UK you WILL go to Prison.they are totally ruined .It may have been okay at first but Great Britain, And Australia are now totalitarian in nature and imprisoned people for not obeying their every command during covide. @Kilroy you better go do some serious research .
They will disarm me when they pull my revolver from my cold dead hand 
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You’re right that my Great Britain example was too generous. A country does not need to be formally totalitarian before it starts using censorship, speech prosecutions, emergency powers, and sweeping restrictions in ways that are plainly authoritarian.
I would still reserve “totalitarian” for a system seeking comprehensive control over public and private life, but Britain and Australia’s COVID-era conduct showed how quickly supposedly limited powers can expand—and how weak civilian disarmament becomes as a safeguard once the state controls the courts, police, media, and political process. The practical lesson is not to wait for the label.
Protect the rights, institutions, and independent means of resistance before the emergency arrives. Your revolver stays on your side of that line.
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