Thought For The Day

Death Be Not Proud, Boys

June 27, 2022

This should cheer you up…

The Second Amendment is still holding a gun to the head of the First Amendment and the rest of America. And this ain’t Russian Roulette – with only one live round in the chamber. Nosiree, this is American Roulette – with all live rounds in the chamber. The only question is when will the trigger be pulled, and the target du jour. We just simultaneously saw Congress pass the most substantive (albeit less than substantial) gun reform legislation in decades – perhaps the most significant since California Governor Ronald Reagan outlawed open-carry in response to Black Panthers with rifles exercising their first two amendment rights at the state capitol – and the Extreme Court reversing 100 years of states’ rights by sanctioning limitless concealed carry at the federal level. 

But that’s not why I asked you here today.

The Proud Boys, as it turns out, might be the closest thing we have to this nation’s original founders. Most of those responsible for our founding documents and social structure were white male slave owners. The Proud Boys are, almost exclusively, white males. And as racist as they come. If owning slaves was not illegal, you can bet those Boys would be chomping at the auction block.

The Proud Boys are, whatever else you might think about them, a militia that while definitely not regulated - well or otherwise - appears fairly well trained at combat-esque activities. They proved this unmistakably (albeit completely illegally and pathetically) on January 6, 2021, which is coming into clearer and clearer focus as we learn more details of exactly what happened at the Capitol on that day. Whatever their status, they are certainly not sanctioned by the nation or any state in the union, though they were (and one assumes still are) sanctioned by the white, male, racist 45^th president of the United States to “Stand back, and stand by,” apparently until the time was right to help him attempt his coup. They need to be regulated...behind bars.

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