We just witnessed a political moment in American history when some in power tried to jail a former president, arguably because he was then the leading candidate for president from the opposing party, on cooked-up charges; a time in which an administration blamed law-abiding citizens, people who utilize their constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms to protect themselves and their loved ones, of being the cause of rises in crime rates; a political period in which an administration attempted to use federal agencies to write law to infringe on the rights of lawfully armed citizens; an age in which elected officials, for purely political reasons, attempted to dissolve the National Rifle Association.
And we were just part of a time when a clear majority of citizens—of which NRA members were a central voting block—stopped this government madness.
If any image encapsulates the struggle of this period in American history, it is of Donald J. Trump with blood flowing from his ear and over his face keeping his composure in the throes of a chaotic moment as he shakes his fist and shouts, “Fight, fight, fight.”
Nevertheless, the legacy media quickly tried to edit out the images of this instantly iconic moment from the election and from history.
It just didn’t fit their narratives.
And then, as the legacy media ran with its alternative reality, a sitting vice president and the nominee from the Democratic Party thought she could float the claim that, despite her long record showing the opposite, she was “in favor” of the Second Amendment and that Trump would “terminate the Constitution of the United States.”
This false claim was then used by a compliant legacy media to “fact check” anyone who pointed out that Harris had long sought to ban guns and even had argued in a brief to the high court that the U.S. Supreme Court should read the individual part clear out of the Second Amendment.
As X, then known as Twitter, had been bought by Elon Musk in 2022, the Trump team was quickly able to respond: “Kamala just claimed that President Trump will take away the 1st amendment and 2nd amendment,” wrote the Trump “War Room.” “Her administration censored people who criticized their covid policies — She is on camera multiple times saying she wants gun confiscation. What a joke.”
Now, as Trump moves back into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., we must be careful not to forget the importance of this moment; as equal justice under the law, due process and all the individual rights we, as a free people, specifically have kept from government infringement must again be normalized.
This return to normalcy is, after all, what Trump promised.
Trump told us he would nominate officials for various law-enforcement agencies, including the Department of Justice and its sub-agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who will be focused on—and doesn’t this seem extraordinarily ordinary?—those who break the law.
Trump also said he would sign a national reciprocity bill if it came to his desk, so that law-abiding citizens can carry concealed wherever it is legal to do so in “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Freedom has won in an important election. Now we need to make sure everyone can use it.
And Trump said he would again nominate judges who will interpret the Constitution and the laws as the people intended when they were passed. Trump has done this before. In his first term, Trump gave us three U.S. Supreme Court Justices who have interpreted U.S. Constitution as it is written and amended; also, during his first administration, Trump gave us 234 Article III judges, which included 54 judges for the U.S. courts of appeals and 174 judges for U.S. district courts.
