The 2nd amendment is about the ppl having power and not the government
@frankmendez85425 ай бұрын
The constitution
@AlfonzeBear5 ай бұрын
EXACTLY the bill of rights is about individual liberty and gov't constraint.
@matt-tasticaus95655 ай бұрын
How's that working out for you 😂😂
@pepepantuflas15 ай бұрын
@matt-tasticaus9565 good ive already been harassed by the f.b.i for making pro America comments on youtube. Which makes me want to make more freedom of speech comments on youtube
@Talon195 ай бұрын
2A is only about the right to keep and bear arms; nothing else. Y’all are just playing into the gun grabbers hands whenever you focus on anything else.
@Incoghs1025 ай бұрын
The fact this, Thom Harmann thinks the founding fathers installed a "democracy" shows how ignorant this person is. "A Republic, if you can keep it"-BF
@jasonshults3685 ай бұрын
Not ignorant; a liar. That entire diatribe was meant to obfuscate and convey misinformation.
@robinsage19645 ай бұрын
This guy's thinking is very flawed and he is very ignorant on the founding fathers. He looksat all this through a communist mindset. He is a dedicated Marxest.
@natel71515 ай бұрын
I'm not sure he's ignorant so much as an evil, gaslighting, propagandist who is a cheerleader for the totalitarian State.
@Talon195 ай бұрын
Republican democracy or democratic republic; basically the same things.
@sLmp.5 ай бұрын
@@Talon19 ... this is facetious right? am i missing a joke?
@mrfilamfishing5 ай бұрын
The militia is NOT the National Guard. The militia is the PEOPLE. This guy is a nut job. The people commenting about how the National Guard (part of the government) is the militia the 2nd Amendment is talking about are the same people who absolutely don't understand why the 2nd Amendment is there in the first place.
@PsychoMantis3085 ай бұрын
The NG is part of the US Army and US Air Force, therefore making them part of the standing military and not a militia
@THall-vi8cp5 ай бұрын
Incorrect. Read 10 USC 246.
@waverider2275 ай бұрын
Right when the Constitution was drafted we had no "army" it was the people who were "the militia" and that meant the "people of the republic have the right to bear arms!
@JellyWhopper5 ай бұрын
@@THall-vi8cp just because there's a legal definition of the word doesn't mean that they're comparable to people wearing flip flops and using rusty rifles.
@mrfilamfishing5 ай бұрын
@@THall-vi8cp YEAH! NO!
@jerrypeal6536 күн бұрын
It’s most definitely about overthrowing a tyrannical government.
@PatrickThreewit2 күн бұрын
Will it be a tyrannical government when Trump is president?
@PatrickThreewit4 сағат бұрын
So when Trump is president will you be using a militia to overthrow the government?
@Chef-vg4pu5 ай бұрын
This guy would be the first one to snitch out his neighbors and tell the politicians that you have guns in your house…
@10PercentForTheBigGuy5 ай бұрын
Good, let them come
@a.j.s.80495 ай бұрын
This guy wants red flag laws so he can report his neighbors to the government
@bandjolyn5 ай бұрын
He loves red flag laws
@Blah811505 ай бұрын
In a SHTF situation this guy would be the first one to get raided because he's a wimp with no guns.
@ronschafer45335 ай бұрын
@@Blah81150I bet his neighbors already have a plan to oust him during WROL
@joelkinder52245 ай бұрын
I'm so sick of hearing "democracy". We're a Constitutional Republic that works "under" a democratic process. Meaning the people elect members of the public to "represent" us.
@AndrewGunner5 ай бұрын
Any system that works under a democratic process is a democracy. We're both a democracy and a republic, the two terms are not mutually exclusive
@Laocoon2835 ай бұрын
Which means we're a democracy... republics can be democracies.
@carycunningham95105 ай бұрын
Oh God already - a constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy by definition.
@caddylover105 ай бұрын
By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority. Although these forms of government are often confused, they are quite different. The main difference between a republic and a democracy is the charter or constitution that limits power in a republic, often to protect the individual's rights against the desires of the majority.
@AndrewGunner5 ай бұрын
@@caddylover10 A representative democracy is still a type of democracy.
@Redacted-Information5 ай бұрын
He is WRONG about the word "MILITIA!"
@robertlawson6985 ай бұрын
Was he referring to the same"national guard"that committed the Kent State massacre?
@natel71515 ай бұрын
WE the PEOPLE are the Militia, whether we are part of a National Guard unit or not... even in the modern definitions of Militia. It's still us, the People. Like... the whole democracy thing that Hartmann guy likes to throw around. Democracy is not about Government. Real Democracy is about "we the people, who give consent to be governed."
@Anglovox5 ай бұрын
Correct..."The Militia" is NOT a qualifier.
@buckguy7205 ай бұрын
What’s even more hilarious is, by the definition at the time, militia meant all able bodied men between 18-45z
@logangodofcandy5 ай бұрын
National guard is literally a standing army
@ViejoLocuelo5 ай бұрын
No, the founders didn’t believe a democracy was the way to go. They believed a republic, a representative republic was the way to go. That’s what we have and that is what the 2nd amendment protects.
@ZedrikVonKatmahl5 ай бұрын
The Second Amendment is just wisdom put to parchment It protects nothing We have to protect the republic
@ObservationofLimits5 ай бұрын
Well, the 17th Amendment is a betrayal of that system. The States as entities with less Rights than the People, but did have Rights (unlike the federal government which has NO RIGHTS, only obligations and limited authority granted by the States and the People). The People should not be voting Senators in.
@springerworks0023 ай бұрын
China is as much of a Republic as America is. We "the people" do not have representation, corporations do.
@55QuirllАй бұрын
Agreed, they were all well educated men and knew the perils that a Democracy would entail.
@michaelrains22683 күн бұрын
The. AMERICAN REPUBLIC was created, not a democracy! Get it right !
@Mattress_03115 ай бұрын
We are a Republic, not a democracy.
@lawrencefields78745 ай бұрын
Well...YES, but we are a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, which is a FORM of Democracy. Let's not divorce the two.
@patriotsouthern81235 ай бұрын
@@lawrencefields7874right. It’s a more secure democracy. If it were a pure democracy, California and New York would decide every single election.
@dusteedawg29155 ай бұрын
EEEEEEXACTLY
@jimblevin14155 ай бұрын
@@lawrencefields7874 well said my good sir 👏👍👌. CORRECT 100 PERCENT .
@SMichaelDeHart5 ай бұрын
@@lawrencefields7874but there is a Democracy type of government, ie: Britain, a Democratic Monarchy. We're strictly a Constitutional Republic, fullstop!!
@spyersecol00135 ай бұрын
So he just ignored everything written by the founding fathers saying anything contradicting what he thinks.
@maynardcarmer31485 ай бұрын
@spyersecol0013 Because it doesn't further his position. Convenient, eh?
@Razgriz855 ай бұрын
It's called "cherry picking," and anti-freedom propagandists are very good at it.
@herbertbrown1195 ай бұрын
That’s the liberal way
@gunztommiegunz5 ай бұрын
The liberal way is to also erase history and lie teaching the new lies or facts. Same thing
@Anon543875 ай бұрын
Typical cherry picking by leftists.
@reymc555 ай бұрын
The 2nd Amendment is simple, not complicated. You and I are the Militia! We are a Republic.
@nil9815 ай бұрын
Lol. LMAO!
@Alarik525 ай бұрын
Were you well trained, or regulated? I know I was. There's a reason we can't take our weapon with us when we leave the service.... And it is tied to the history of the second amendment, and Shays rebellion.
@reymc555 ай бұрын
@@Alarik52 I was with the 4thMARDIV, Corpsman 8404. 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with the military 🪖.
@Alarik525 ай бұрын
@@reymc55 That just means you remain ignorant, which is no flaw - most are ignorant. It can be worked on though. Read up on Shays Rebellion.
@reymc555 ай бұрын
@Alarik52 I'm aware of it growing up in MA. that means you live in your own interpretation, reality, beliefs, and opinions, which is your right constitutionally. Which is no flaw either. I have a different opinion. Live free or die, my friend.
@z42O5 ай бұрын
If Goverment says "you don't need guns" then you NEED guns. - George Washington
@Ryan-dt9op5 ай бұрын
You know George Washington personally put down two rebellions against our own people…with guns right?
@WolfeSaber99334 ай бұрын
Direct quote
@jorgejimenez48293 ай бұрын
Can you cite this quote please
@Ryan-dt9op3 ай бұрын
@@z42O you know George Washington with federal troops personally put down two rebellions with guns right?
@elliottbaker2013 ай бұрын
@@jorgejimenez4829 1775, Lexington Virginia
@Barskor15 ай бұрын
Anyone who wants to disarm you does not have good intentions towards you.
@waverider2275 ай бұрын
Amen Absolutely!
@flyingmonkeydeathsquadronc9685 ай бұрын
You don't disarm your friends and allies only you enemies and victims.
@Barskor15 ай бұрын
@@flyingmonkeydeathsquadronc968 Exactly that.
@alwaysfreedom93545 ай бұрын
A lot of Jews learned that. Millions starved.
@alwaysfreedom93545 ай бұрын
Yes. Look what happened to the Jews.
@Angl0sax0nknight5 ай бұрын
Founders HATED “democracy” ! We have a Constitutional Republic
@nil9815 ай бұрын
They didn't hate democracy but they knew the history of democracy and saw that it was incredibly fragile and unstable especially when times get rough or when war is on the horizon.
@Prich3195 ай бұрын
The founders based our federal government's structure around the oligarchy of Sparta, not the democracy of Athens.
@michaelking58405 ай бұрын
Say it again, for those who didn’t hear it!!!
@randalldunning57385 ай бұрын
“Democracy is the Devils own government.” - Benjamin Rush “Democracy soon exhausted, wastes, and murders itself.” -John Adams Also Jefferson was talking about Shay’s Rebellion not the French Revolution in the Tree of Liberty Letter. Everything the💩🤡 talk show host said was an Orwellian lie.
@Hornet1355 ай бұрын
Democracy is mob rule.
@TheBoosteddub5 ай бұрын
We are a constitutional republic. The constitution limits the government not the people. We the people is not the government. Shall not be infringed
@anthonytipsword44015 ай бұрын
They believed in a republic, not a democracy.
@PatrickThreewit3 ай бұрын
Too many commies on this site. If we have a democratic republic we have freedom but if we get rid of the democracy, they we get fascistic communism just like China and North Korea. Why don't you move there?
@PatrickThreewit2 ай бұрын
Abe Lincoln believed in our democracy and he was the first republican.
@benmaye15 ай бұрын
And the Founders would definitely be rebelling against what our Federal Government has become.
@michaelfranciotti39005 ай бұрын
"Me and the boys would've been stacking bodies a long time ago." G. Washington probably
@dalepres15 ай бұрын
If they had any bit of an idea of the National Guard or a standing police force they would have written them out of existence in the Constitution.
@deadshot42455 ай бұрын
@@michaelfranciotti3900 for 150 plus years they would be
@fahqkitty5 ай бұрын
Oh absolutely.
@mikebrines57085 ай бұрын
I'd gladly trade what we have now for the situation before 1775. This is so much worse.
@jakobroynon-fisher95355 ай бұрын
Why does no one mention how we aren't a democracy, we are a Constitutional Federal Republic. The Founders did not want a more "democratic" government, they literally wanted a wholly republican form of government that has maximal liberty as its crown jewel. The NG is NOT the militia! Militia are "non-professional fighting forces", not "part-time professional troops".
@solarwolf13365 ай бұрын
I’ll be finalized in joining the Oklahoma National Guard in June, and I’m promising now my service will always be to the people before it’s to a tyrannical government
@jakobroynon-fisher95355 ай бұрын
@@solarwolf1336 Good luck to you.
@gaberesendez64925 ай бұрын
the nasty girls and professional don’t belong on the same sentence 😂😂
@EH-sp3wk5 ай бұрын
Because we are technically both a democracy and a republic. We use the electoral college to vote for a president and democratically vote for our elected officials (I.e. Senators, representatives)by democratic means.
@melgillham4625 ай бұрын
@@EH-sp3wkarticle 4 section 4, democracy is not in the constitution and is not definitive of our government.
@RL-RL5 ай бұрын
This guy is the reason we have and need the 2nd ammendment!
@PatrickThreewit24 күн бұрын
That guy is probably the reason you need to learn how to read.
@BubbasndRayEarl5 ай бұрын
When the Constitution was written the Founders just returned from overthrowing a tyrannical government not a hunting trip.
@Timasion5 ай бұрын
It's a simple issue. Who has the right to bear arms? Not the state. The people.
@laytongammelgard77945 ай бұрын
We are a constitutional republic
@carycunningham95105 ай бұрын
A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy by definition.
@alwaysfreedom93545 ай бұрын
@@carycunningham9510 Our Founders said, "A republic. If you can keep it!" A pure democracy is two men and a woman voting on who gets raped. America's 120 million gun owners will never kill as many Jews as FDR did. Read history books. My World War Two vet teachers are gone.
@PatrickThreewit4 ай бұрын
Lots of different names-----constitutional republic, representative republic, representative democracy, representative democratic republic, federal democratic republic. You ought ask online about our form of government and there will be a lot more than these I listed. It just depends on which one you want. There are 36 republics in the world 7 republics including the U.S. and Mexico, are representative ones. But I only looked at one site. I could probably find different definitions looking at different sites.
@alwaysfreedom93544 ай бұрын
@@PatrickThreewit Our Founders said we had a republic. If we could keep it. But what would they know. Compared to someone playing with his mother's computer?
@PatrickThreewit4 ай бұрын
@@alwaysfreedom9354 You need to learn about Project 2025 and Trump's Agenda 47. If you don 'know about this, nothing else will matter. And here I thought republicans liked Trump. Guess not.
@oo7-ro6bu5 ай бұрын
This guy knows nothing. The government has no authority to make any laws or regulations against arms per the constitution of the United States.
@jeffbrowning46845 ай бұрын
I beg to differ. He know EXACTLY what he's saying. He's wrong, and he's lying, but he knows what he's saying. He's pushing a Communist disarmament agenda.
@nil9815 ай бұрын
So, what would stop corporate executives from various companies coming together to disarm the people via market mechanisms and technology in line with their own interests?
@SuperBossGiovanni5 ай бұрын
@@nil981 And how exactly would a group of private companies go about (legally) disarming the population? The only recourse they have would be to offer to buy people's guns, but they cant force people to sell. At a certain point their actions would become illegal, and the gov't has an obligation to step in. Even if the gov't doesnt step in, the 2A still guarantees us the right to fight back. 2A isn't ONLY about the gov't, but about anyone that seeks to trample on people's God given rights.
@emberfist83475 ай бұрын
@@nil981They can’t do that as the gun manufacturers are the ones who make guns and have no incentive to shrink their customer base.
@bullgravy69065 ай бұрын
@@emberfist8347unfortunately that’s far from accurate. Gun manufacturers strap on the knee pads for government contracts and would rather satisfy those contracts than the civilian market
@rcraig96555 ай бұрын
Listening to Colion "debate" Hartmann is like listening to a true Constitutional scholar debating a 5th grader. God bless you Colion!
@FrankGallagherr5 ай бұрын
Who wants to see Biden, Harris, Newsom, Adams, Hochul, Bragg, James, Willis, Schumer out of office, impeached, prosecuted…? ?
@Fwo9195 ай бұрын
Me me me I do please
@jacobquatkemeyer38235 ай бұрын
Every single political office should have term and age limits. The president already has to be atleast 35 years of age, we should also include a maximum age limit.
@ZX2Fast5 ай бұрын
Me too, and the Republicans that engage in insider trading, gerrymandering, asset forfeiture, and other treasonous crimes.
@scottteuton54765 ай бұрын
Is "Un-Alived" an option?
@michaelking58405 ай бұрын
We can only hope!!!
@JuanGarcia-rn7ed5 ай бұрын
No. Protection WITHOUT the government is more important. Our borders are unattended, our current government isn't here to protect us against what is coming.
@RyanSpringer19845 ай бұрын
We still have a government, when they blatantly ignore their constituents in favor of "migrants" to replace them, it just appears as "without." It's all intentional.
@gixerbike15 ай бұрын
Correct, they are the cause of what is coming, they want the system to collapse. Stay Strapped.
@Alarik525 ай бұрын
Read up on Shays rebellion.
@JuanGarcia-rn7ed5 ай бұрын
I'm trying not to discount future governments, wishful thinking.
@ObservationofLimits5 ай бұрын
The federal government, specifically was granted Limited Authority (no Rights, no unlimited power, to PROTECT the Rights of the People and the States. It was basically meant to be an arbitrator, not this grossly unconstitutional bureaus of tyranny it is now
@ryojimata37085 ай бұрын
Since when is a radio host that apparently can't read basic English an expert on 2a? Hartmann always been a hack
@cheshire92821 күн бұрын
He is also a socialist . No private ownership means of production / manufacturing / distribution would be handled by the masses voting on policies. Sanitation workers would be equal to senior workers with more responsibility.
@monotech20.147 күн бұрын
@@cheshire928 Wrong. He's not a socialist.
@rotorheadv85 ай бұрын
It isn’t about overthrowing the government. It’s about keeping the government from overthrowing our Rights.
@richard-ri2hn5 ай бұрын
We the People do have the right to stand against a tyrannical government to protect the Constitution and our Republic. We are the ones in charge not the government
@joejones41725 ай бұрын
That the way it's SUPPOSED to work, but it's not.
@369ThegoosedrankwineThemonkey5 ай бұрын
@@joejones4172o but it won't take much and we the people will
@igooog5 ай бұрын
Not the right, the duty.
@joshryan96885 ай бұрын
@@369ThegoosedrankwineThemonkeywe’ve been past “much” for years now. We the people are all talk
@markmixon11215 ай бұрын
If the founding fathers actually thought that our system of government would last until the end of time and never become tyrannical and out of control and live by the law of the land, then they didn't have any foresight at all, had no knowledge of history at all. If our government keeps on going down the path it's going now the government we have known will be gone and replaced with probably socialism or communism, it's just a matter of time.
@frankrich885 ай бұрын
We are and always have been and ever shall be a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC not a Democracy.
@Generik975 ай бұрын
The Second Amendment literally says "being necessary to the security of a free State" The entire point of the Second Amendment is to keep a state (and the people within said state) free. How is it I as a non-american understand the constitution better then an actual American? 😐
@ferd17755 ай бұрын
He understands it, he is schilling, bootlicking if you will, because they'd rather live under tyrannical rule than live free. This is where the cognitive dissonance is, they think they will be safer LMFAOOOOO😂😂😂😂
@Generik975 ай бұрын
Edit: A democracy only works if the government must listen to the people. If the government stops respecting your vote, what are you gonna keep doing? Voting? That literally makes no sense.
@dusteedawg29155 ай бұрын
He's PROBABLY paid opposition ..... They want to DUMB ppl down so they give up THEIR RIGHTS
@dizzzzzzler5 ай бұрын
Those who are entrusted with our children’s education, can no longer be trusted. Much easier to trample people’s rights when they don’t understand them.
@cbmech25635 ай бұрын
They actually understand.......and that is the real problem. They are afraid of what the 2nd amendment means. An armed person is a citizen, an unarmed person is a slave and that is their intention.
@garylancaster39955 ай бұрын
This man is completely out of touch with reality. Prime example of what's wrong with our government.
@Dougarony3 күн бұрын
Yep, He is just a paid off Traitor.
@jazzzman10002 күн бұрын
He's not a member of our government, never has been.
@HuckleBerry4765 ай бұрын
ITS LITERALLY IN YHE BILL OF RIGHTS! Which are protections against the government.
@carycunningham95105 ай бұрын
Quite correct.
@bargeman1005 ай бұрын
We're not a democracy, we're a Republic. I'm tired of liberals whining about "our democracy".
@treroney47205 ай бұрын
I mean they’re the same thing. We’re not a TRUE democracy but we’re a democracy
@Mitch_Conner759265 ай бұрын
@@treroney4720A democracy doesn’t have a constitution. So no we aren’t a democracy. We have some Democratic systems, of course you’ll see the flood of people who will insist we are a democracy but if we were it would be mob ruled as it is in Europe with many countries and having zero rights.
@The_Real_Indiana_Joe5 ай бұрын
@@treroney4720 Most people don't know the difference and for us, the difference is only in the past. In a republic, the limit upon government is the rights of the people Adjudicated IN COMMON LAW. Government has hidden the common law along with our rights and we are being subjected to the 100% political and arbitrary statutory law, aka the will of our public SERVANTS. We are being ran as a democracy.
@JDGage5 ай бұрын
It’s a democratic republic.
@andyleotell5 ай бұрын
@@treroney4720we are a constitutional republic, democracy is rule by majority, or mob rule….. thank God individual liberty is protected by the bill of rights! True democracy is an awful form of government!!
@WaLoneranger535 ай бұрын
He hasn't read the Constitution.
@feoxorus5 ай бұрын
Like Nadler, he'll ignore the inconvenient parts.
@marklowe13125 ай бұрын
We do not have a democracy, we are a constitutional republic. End of discussion!
@jchapman82485 ай бұрын
The fact that the DEMOCROOKS blather on about saving our Democracy and that DJT and MAGA are threat to Democracy tells use they do not recognize the primacy and legitimacy of our Constitutional Republic. Their party's activities and policies border on treason, imo.
@kenkneram48195 ай бұрын
ROFLMAO!!! "End of discussion!!" Hugh? Too bad you're wrong. Read a book buddy. Your teachers clearly failed you.
@thefirststrike5 ай бұрын
@@kenkneram4819 Ummm...how exactly is he wrong? We ARE a Constitutional Republic, not a "democracy". A Constitutional Republic is one FORM of democracy. There are several different forms of government that are "democracies". But we are NOT a "true" democracy, which is majority rules. I would love to hear you explain how he was wrong.
@kenkneram48195 ай бұрын
@@thefirststrike You already did explain it. "A constitutional republic is a form of democracy." Your words and mine. LOL have a nice night.
@d.h.jefferies21915 ай бұрын
Tell me ANY ELECTED office in America that isn't decided by a simple majority of the vote.....@@thefirststrike
@justGOLD75 ай бұрын
The radio host doesn't even know that we're NOT A DEMOCRACY!!! We are a Constitutional Republic, and they aren't the same.
@Redacted-Information5 ай бұрын
NO! That hated a DEMOCRACY! Thats why we dont have one!
@pdm8815 ай бұрын
Yes! Most viewed democracy as more insidious and blood thirsty then a monarchy.
@carycunningham95105 ай бұрын
A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy by definition.
@pOOTERgOBLiN5 ай бұрын
@@carycunningham9510 Democracy is in direct conflict with individual Freedom. Which it was all based on. The only thing 'democratic' is suppose to be the way we elect the 'representatives' , nothing else. Anything else is mob rule not a free republic.
@davidh73985 ай бұрын
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson
@ZeusBrown5 ай бұрын
@@carycunningham9510 No matter how many times you spam the same copypasta under different comments, it doesn't make it true.
@ColeDedhand5 ай бұрын
"The Security of the Free State" means the security of the state of freedom.
@jakobroynon-fisher95355 ай бұрын
Actually, "security of a free State" would be "security/defense of a free polity/commonwealth/republic".
@TheBuster09265 ай бұрын
You don't just have to be Tyrannized by Humans. Without the Ability to Arm one's self, the Common Fox, Coyote, Raccoon, and Skinwalker all become just as dangerous as they have always been throughout all of Human History. Ask the Russians about the Winters in the Villages during WW2 after all of their Arms were Forcefully Donated to the State to fight the Germans. As the Grieving Family's of The UK who are seeing a spike of Abductions of Infants by FOXES. To Limit the Firearms' Purpose to mearly being an Extension of the Voting Block is the Most Immense Poison-Pill. "You cannot defend yourself from our Jets and Tanks" --Joe Biden No, but I sure can Defend myself from Wild Hogs, Rampant Deer, Rabid Raccoons, and the COMMON THUG.
@emberfist83475 ай бұрын
@@jakobroynon-fisher9535 That is kinda OP’s point. Keeping a free state free.
@raymond40945 ай бұрын
I would like to point out that we are not a democracy, we are a Republic!
@paulgroth33455 ай бұрын
My right to bear arms has been infringed
@tsim41395 ай бұрын
Constitutional Republic....
@joedunleavy70665 ай бұрын
He has never read the Federalists Papers or any of the writings of the founding fathers
@ozziecrosby20925 ай бұрын
And they no longer teach it in school. By design
@jasonshults3685 ай бұрын
I'm sure he has. His job is to lie and mislead.
@bobprivate85755 ай бұрын
Or the Journal of Congress, from when the Amendments were being debated. (paraphrasing, it's been a few years) The only way a government serves the people, is if it fears the people. The best way to ensure a government fears the people, is to have the people better armed than the government.
@IAmTheRealBill5 ай бұрын
@@bobprivate8575 We can do it better. That letter he claimed was about the French Revolution? He lied. Here is the full paragraph: Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. -- He very clearly asserts that the government must always fear the people overthrowing it, and specifically in this case, a democratic confederation - not a monarchy.
@alwaysfreedom93545 ай бұрын
@@ozziecrosby2092 Education ended in the US when my World War Two vet teachers retired. That was the 70s. Any young American who does not know FDR had the blood of hundreds of thousands of Jews on his hands is not educated. And FDR did zero about the Democrats' KKK.
@beaucortez10735 ай бұрын
Colion Noor, I'm absolutely 💯 with you
@An2oine5 ай бұрын
It is exactly about overthrowing democracy and maintaining a constitutional republic.
@adamfuller32965 ай бұрын
The framers were absolutely very concerned about democratic tyranny. The Declaration of Independence was just as much directed at Parliament as it was to the king. Literally the entire framework of our governmental design and Bill of Rights was to prevent hostile usurpations of our liberty by democratic institutions, and even then they knew that there would be no perfect system. Clearly the framers wanted revolution to be the last resort but they certainly believed a revolution may one day be necessary.
@jleano6095 ай бұрын
This is absolutely correct. The English Civil War almost a hundred years before had also resulted in a Bill of Rights that included a right to bear arms but because of England's more democratic framework and lack of a firm written constitution it only took fifty years or so for that particular right to be effectively dissolved. The Founding Fathers recognized this, many of them being from the Protestant "Roundhead" background that effectively formed the winning side of the English Civil War that drafter that BoR. They weren't about to allow the same mistake to be made twice.
@axhed5 ай бұрын
of course they were worried about democratic tyranny, it's why they created a republic.
@eugenepearson6665 ай бұрын
James Madison wrote on why they wrote the 2nd.
@noquartergiven778925 күн бұрын
He sure says democracy a lot. Interesting how none of the founding documents mentions the word even once.
@rikashya5 ай бұрын
For the good of the Republic and future of the United States of America we all must stand together United against these tyrants!
@jeffflynn55455 ай бұрын
The irony is that we aren't free because of "democracy", we're free because of the Constitution.
@danielchrysalis65545 ай бұрын
Ask your paycheck if you’re actually free. I bet it replies… “taxes” before the sentence passes your lips.
@PatrickThreewit2 ай бұрын
Any state that has a lot of government control, as do most conservative states, is not free.
@danielchrysalis65542 ай бұрын
@@PatrickThreewit like California? Or NY? Most regulations in the country. Conservative af. Lol
@PatrickThreewit2 ай бұрын
@@danielchrysalis6554 According to conservative think tank, CATO, who every year lists top U.S. states in two areas, economic and personal, the lists of which help prospective corporations decide where to move to, CATO came out with their lists a few months ago. Not being a wealthy CEO I was not interested in the economic list but I was in the personal list. My state, probably what you'd call red, Idaho, was listed as the second least free state. Texas was the least free. And three other states were also listed. Idaho does a lot of government control, one of the main problems is ban on abortion, but I don't like government control and most conservatives say they aren't for that but they think they need to use the power of government to push Biblical morals on the public. Our state is controlled by the biggest industry in the state, the cattle industry. Idaho is mainly an urban rather than a rural state and the urban centers control everything. We in the rural sections have little say. If my neighbor's cows break down the neighbor's fence and the cows then break down my garden fence, I have to build a fence to keep them out. The state says that the cattle owner has no responsibility. That is govt. control. If the state tells a woman what she can and cannot do with her body, that's government control. People are trying to get the government to control public school curriculum so that U.S. history cannot show all history. Government control is on the path to autocracy, which has very little freedom. Just look at the republic without democracy---North Korea.
@misfit4ever01Ай бұрын
@@danielchrysalis6554Patrick is a clown he thinks CATO is conservative 😂
@Dusty-uy3ev5 ай бұрын
“So then I started blasting”
@analogkid45575 ай бұрын
Aparrently he never said the Pledge of Alligance in school. And to the Republic, for which it stands...
@DEPORTMAN5 ай бұрын
It's good that you exposed this clown.
@JuliePascal5 ай бұрын
Wow. "A Republic, if we can keep it." Who said that?
@maynardcarmer31485 ай бұрын
@JuliePascal Benjamin Franklin
@jjnix95175 ай бұрын
A constitutional republic
@elsullo25 ай бұрын
Benjamin Franklin, United States Ambassador to the King Of France, when asked by an aristocratic woman what kind of government he had.............................elsullo
@carycunningham95105 ай бұрын
A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy by definition.
@alwaysfreedom93545 ай бұрын
@@carycunningham9510 Yes. That means you can vote. But there are only two ways they could remove our Second Amendment from our Bill of Rights. The first one was only used once. At our Constitutional Convention. The other is how they got Prohibition in. And how they got a terrible mistake removed. (Prohibition.) It was mostly women and religious leaders who pushed for Prohibition. And, yes, Republicans. They learned from that mistake. The Socialist Democrats never learn. The federal government poisoned many thousands of Americans to try to get them to stop drinking. Many went blind. Not even that worked. The gun crime fueled by drinking control is what prompted them to push for gun laws. Another terrible mistake. But. The Second Amendment is here to stay. And our Supreme Court, for now, is pro-Second Amendment. There are 120 million voting gun owners. They will not vote for more gun laws.
@ThePzrLdr5 ай бұрын
Anyone who actually READ the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers know better.
@i.be.matt.t5 ай бұрын
... and to the REPUBLIC, for which it stands ...
@woodwyrm5 ай бұрын
Anytime someone starts talking about democracy and the USA in the same sentence, you *know* that they want to abolish the republic and replace it with a democracy, Thom Hartmann most definitely included!
@A_friend_of_Aristotle5 ай бұрын
Anyone attempting to do so would quickly learn how impractical Democracy is. It's just not the right government for a nation so large.
@nathanielhill81565 ай бұрын
Exactly, there's a quote that applies “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." “Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” - Ben Franklin We are a Constitutional Republic that guarantees freedom, not a democracy ruled by a mob mentality of public opinion.
@PatrickThreewit4 ай бұрын
He may be a liberal but that doesn't make him bad. My opinion is that conservatives are using this gun culture to divide this country. And people who open carry definitely want to intimidate those fearful of guns just helping to cause more division. If I go walking in the thick woods in my region, I will open carry my little Ruger Blackhawk 41 mag, but I won't carry it in public.
@PatrickThreewit4 ай бұрын
Do you hate people just because they don't like guns? Or because they want background checks or because they think a person should be 21 before they can own an assault rifle like an AR or an AK. Is anyone who likes those ideas trying to take your guns?
@springerworks0023 ай бұрын
One issue. The people don't vote for their representatives in the US. We vote for who will represent the corporations. People don't seem to have representation, it appears as if corporations have representation.
@ThomasHarrison-u8l5 ай бұрын
The American people who are armed is the world’s largest standing army.
@jasonshults3685 ай бұрын
It's not.
@TheDuckofDoom.5 ай бұрын
@@jasonshults368 Where is a larger one?
@Ragnarok1825 ай бұрын
@@jasonshults368 You sure about that?
@kerry-j4m5 ай бұрын
Most have no training with fire-arms or if they faced a military would get roasted.I keep hearing about our government may go rogue,so,we need to be able to bear arms.I don't see this happening,at all.
@TheDuckofDoom.5 ай бұрын
@@kerry-j4m In economics terms, a company that is the only player in a market (apparent monopoly) still faces competition pressures that create a natural cap on their prices. Notably the threat of new entrants due to the high profit margin incentivizing potential competitors to make a startup capital investment. Even if the established player has the competitive advantage to deal with the new entrants it would be better for overal income to cap their own prices and not share the market. Governments are in a similar position, the cost of the conflict is the real threat and an armed population greatly increases the cost and risk. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, even to a tyrant. That isn't even getting into the moral dilemas of individual troops (US officers are sworn to protect the constitution, not the politians.), and indirect economic factors like the sudden breakdown of the tax system that pays for that professional military. (Or the simple fact that shear numbers do matter and many civilians actually have had formal training.)
@user-ie1ij9nr7e5 ай бұрын
America is not a democracy. America is a republic. Two different things.
@carycunningham95105 ай бұрын
Wrong. Please go back to school. A constitutional Republic is a form of representative democracy by definition.
@robertf65235 ай бұрын
@carycunningham9510 You're the one that's wrong and in need of sticking nose in books and other documents. You will NOT find the word DEMOCRACY anywhere in the founding documents. But go reading further and you will find why the founders specifically avoided democracy.
@AndrewGunner5 ай бұрын
@@robertf6523the word democracy doesn't need to be in founding documents for the US to be a representative/indirect democracy
@carycunningham95105 ай бұрын
@@robertf6523"We the People" is all I need. A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy, BY DEFINITION. It's not rational for you to argue this. What, are you itching for the Fourth Reich?
@AndrewGunner5 ай бұрын
@@carycunningham9510 he just doesn't like the word democracy because he thinks being a democracy is related to the Democratic party
@kbcinmedusn5 ай бұрын
Defending against the government and overthrowing a government are two different things.
@bobbywelch60355 ай бұрын
First off, rhe United States of America is not a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic.
@AndrewGunner5 ай бұрын
We're both. The terms are not mutually exclusive.
@Laocoon2835 ай бұрын
Their are republics that elect their representatives and republics that appoint their representatives. The former are called democratic republics. A democracy is any system in which the general population votes for how the country is run which includes voting for people to represent your political will. So we are a democracy. You just have no idea what the word means and have been parroting this catchphrase you have heard thrown around
@carycunningham95105 ай бұрын
Which is a form of representative democracy - go back to school.
@w.p.9585 ай бұрын
We used to be. Now it is an oligarchy pretending to be a Constitutional Republic.
@balasaashti31465 ай бұрын
@@carycunningham9510 Perhaps you should go. Constitutional Republic means two things it is set up underneath a set of code, second it is ruled by appointed officials what our founding father's called better men those who had the right to rule over the population. A democracy is by definition when people rule. We are not supposed to be ran by the people or the popular vote but officials who carry out the will of the set of code that the nation is found on. We do neither of these things now instead we have entirely moved away from a Constitutional Republic and instead are now a full blown Democratic Republic, something we should rip apart.
@martinto1385 ай бұрын
They overthrew a MONARCHY. How uneducated can you be and still talk on a topic.
@conradhawkins14265 ай бұрын
They were so confident is why we have checks and balances.
@HarryPrevost4 ай бұрын
So a politician says we shouldn’t be able to overthrow the politicians??? Must be true guys…🙄🙄🙄
@saw78wilson5 ай бұрын
Colion, bro I really can't thank you enough for standing up against these...! You are a great man. And sooooo many of us are standing right beside you!!!!
@Xxtayce5 ай бұрын
"A Republic... if you can keep it."
@nunyabisnass11415 ай бұрын
Our own founding fathers were cautious of a true democracy, because they knew as their own forefathers knew, that any politician is both an advocate and an enemy to the ppl. Politics has not changed since it was first formed.
@tcorris5 ай бұрын
Democracy: 4 wolfs and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
@MichaelSisley-fw3xr5 ай бұрын
All of the arguments the radio show host makes have been defeated in the SCOTUS. That same dribble was used in the Heller, McDonald, and Bruen cases to date. SCOTUS said, nope, the 2A says what it says.
@jleano6095 ай бұрын
Exactly - all these arguments have been tested in court. Fundamentally it doesn't matter what Jefferson or anyone else thought or was said to have thought. That's highly subjective anyway. What matters is what was WRITTEN DOWN and signed by all of them. That's how the law works.
@keithamdahl39485 ай бұрын
As usual, Colion is correct. I'm glad he is able to stand the ground against these people that want to destroy our rights!
@neighborhoodwatch4705 ай бұрын
The radio host is insane!
@cinemoriahFPV5 ай бұрын
We need to save our constitutional republic from the scurge of democracy.
@nschlaak5 ай бұрын
"But Colin, the radio talk show host has to be right because he has a voice and an audience." Thank you Sir for speaking the truth to combat this Liberal lunacy.
@RapidRedRider5 ай бұрын
I mean at over 2.8M subscribers id say Colion has a pretty good audience too
@breeze680255 ай бұрын
This clown also needs to understand that do not and never have had a democracy. We have always had a Constitutional Republic. The founding fathers knew that Democracies fall to tyranny.
@CD-vb9fi5 ай бұрын
Thank you! I am so tired of hearing the lie of democracy. USA is a very "anti-democracy" Federal Constitutional Republic. The framers made it clear they hated democracy!
@carycunningham95105 ай бұрын
A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy by definition.
@viru520005 ай бұрын
@@carycunningham9510 revisionist history. Democracy is mob rule and the allegory of 3 wolves and a sheep voting for what's for dinner applies. Constitutional Republic is rule of law and doesn't allow such a situation unless it's corrupted.
@firstlast54995 ай бұрын
In a true democracy… better known as mob rule… the rights of any one group can be violated by a majority vote… meaning (50% + 1) of the people can vote away the rights of (50% - 1).
@Lat-YuFrantu5165 ай бұрын
@@carycunningham9510 yes but a constitutional Republic non the less
@rickgrimes9315 ай бұрын
The Founding Fathers HATED democracies....
@WorldvsTruth5 ай бұрын
And so do I. That’s why I left Canada, permanently.
@PatrickThreewit4 ай бұрын
You don't know what they hated. What if I asked, "Were all the Founding Fathers Christians making this country a Christian nation?" Would you know what they thought about religion?
@rickgrimes9314 ай бұрын
@@PatrickThreewit - Because I have read the founding documents and the documentation surrounding them. The left writings; books, pamphlets and essays on various subjects surrounding the mechanics of the founding of the nation. For example: "The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived." John Quincy Adams "Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death." James Madison "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity." Alexander Hamilton "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams So yes, if you bother to educate yourself, you can find out what they hated and even more important, you can find out why.
@PatrickThreewit3 ай бұрын
Lincoln said, Democracy is of the people,by the people, for the people. Do you think Abraham Lincoln was not a patriot or was he a communist like you.
@PatrickThreewit2 ай бұрын
Is that why you hate Abraham Lincoln? Because he said that our democracy is of the people, by the people, and for the people?
@christofonobrown36595 ай бұрын
As always, thank you for your work.
@redanzey5 ай бұрын
The first misstatement occurs in his opening as he refers to us as a democracy. We are not a democracy but we are a republic.
@thomastsunami34225 ай бұрын
After being asked, about what sort of constitution was written, Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it.’ Our responsibility is to keep it.”, acknowledging, that unless guarded, it might not hold, and that it was a form of government that needed to be jealously protected and guarded.
@leonardinghram80605 ай бұрын
my question is are we a democracy today? And whos the best candidate for us to keep us tactical?
@stalwartman80155 ай бұрын
We are a Republic not Democracy
@karlheinzvonkroemann22175 ай бұрын
We're not much of either!
@raevj5 ай бұрын
@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 not anymore, but they definitely didn’t want a mob-rule democracy..
@SovereignStatesman5 ай бұрын
An INTERNATIONAL republic of 50 separate sovereign nations, like the UN or the EU. The 2nd Amendment was to keep the federal government from claiming national union; but Lincoln DENIED this with FAKE HISTORY.
@jchapman82485 ай бұрын
@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Especially so since. The Act of 1871!
@eyesonly16385 ай бұрын
A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting what's for dinner it does not make it right to take someone's stuff just because it's devoted that way
@5.56NATOdreams5 ай бұрын
They can debate it all they want, but there's only 2 ways I'm giving up my firearm, it'll be empty, and they're prying it from my dead hands
@davidruppel12165 ай бұрын
That guy is nuts! We are a Republic!
@OMGEVISCERATE5 ай бұрын
fool, republic is a form of democracy
@clevelandsteve17855 ай бұрын
We may be a Democratic Republic but You, Sir Colion, deserve a Knighthood for your work!
@betornween5 ай бұрын
Democracy is the tree which grows the 5 branches of Authoritarianism: Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Maoism, and Communism. Now you know why democrats are so hellbent on and panicked over protecting Trump's "Threat To Democracy!"
@nicknitro44205 ай бұрын
The Second Amendment does not grant us the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment denies the Government, the AUTHORITY to infringe upon our right to bear arms.
@Q_Tard5 ай бұрын
I really appreciate pointing out this distinction, and I wish it was stated so much more often.
@jrod31515 ай бұрын
Well said! Simple and to the point..
@sprky7775 ай бұрын
So blacks were blocked from becoming full citizens because they would then have the right to keep and bear arms where ever they went? So by implication, citizens have the right to keep and bear arms everywhere? That was their original position? We need to return to our original intended condition where we were free and the government was RESTRAINED by the constitution. The government is not free to do as it pleases. Only what the constitution authorizes, no more.
@Scattaminkey5 ай бұрын
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - Says it right here. Guess they didn't teach reading where you're from
@Q_Tard5 ай бұрын
@@Scattaminkey You just missed the entire point. The bill of rights doesn't grant rights. It's a list of specific rights that just exist, which the government can not deny anyone. The text of the second proves the point. "Shall not be infringed" is a restriction on the government.
@QdMaster5 ай бұрын
This guy is so full of bs I can smell it through my phone!
@YOUTUBE_CHRIS5 ай бұрын
I've never felt like the Government is looking out for our best interests, only its' own
@johnstraub74945 ай бұрын
We are not a Democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic. Drives me nuts when I hear everyone talk about the US being a democracy, It's not.
@xaheroforhireusx5 ай бұрын
A constitutional republic IS a democracy. It's not a DIRECT democracy, like we would often think of when we think Ancient Athens, but it IS a form of democracy. So. There's that.
@stuckgrenadepin.2255 ай бұрын
@@xaheroforhireusxno. You are using modern definitions for historical events. Bastardization of a word doesn’t mean the original definition is wrong, it means you are. There is not a single instance of the word democracy being used in the founding documents. We have a handful of democratic processes where people actually vote on an issue, but the overall process of the government is not democratic. Saying it is a democracy because we have 2-3-4 direct voting processes is like saying a person with cancer IS cancer.
@PBE865 ай бұрын
America IS NOT FREE.
@chavonj46805 ай бұрын
@@stuckgrenadepin.225 sir, so what was the definition of democracy as per 1776? What do you mean “the overall process of the government is not democratic” literally every part of the government is democratic process, every election is democratic. And what is 2-3-4 direct voting processes?
@stuckgrenadepin.2255 ай бұрын
@@chavonj4680 I was talking about republic and I think you know it. It was not synonymous with democracy back then, otherwise the founders, being the educated men of their time, would have included it at least once in the founding documents.
@Scruffyman815 ай бұрын
The tyrannical entity the people need to protect themselves from can be as small as someone breaking into their house. Tyranny exists at many different scales.
@robedmund99485 ай бұрын
The Second Amendment isn't about overthrowing the government. It's purpose is to prevent that necessity.
@PatrickThreewit4 ай бұрын
Sounds like conservatives are trying to make this country a Christian nation. I'm glad it isn't.
@brucelombardo5 ай бұрын
Mister Colton, it gives me great pleasure to know you are in our Lone Star state. Never give up, never surrender!
@jeffreyashman97515 ай бұрын
Not just their right, BUT THEIR DUTY!
@websterri5 ай бұрын
And that duty was abandoned over 100 years ago when the people just did fuck all and let the constitution get violated again and again. We now live in the rotting corpse of what used to be America.
@R-Lee-5 ай бұрын
If they weren't afraid of a tyrannical gov. then why put in the first amendment?
@russ13765 ай бұрын
because your 1st amendment is your right to speak up to your govt and if they don’t listen then step two would be your 2nd Amendment right.
@Michael-ly7vt5 ай бұрын
Excellent work this morning! Thank you. Proud of you
@dwarvenjesus42665 ай бұрын
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon and citizen's firearms are indelibly related. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this land knows firearms, and more than 99 99/100 percent of them by their silence indicate they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. When firearms go, all goes - we need them every hour." President George Washington Address to the Second Session First United States Congress
@siulanainad5 ай бұрын
This gentleman Mr. Thom, would be the perfect Minister of Truth of the government we were warned about. He looks the part, and foaming at the mouth, big eyes. Etc….
@philsechzi84695 ай бұрын
The fact that there are so many people who have little to no understanding of the constitution is both astounding and depressing. #2A4ALL
@alwaysfreedom93545 ай бұрын
And dangerous.
@shadowfox_1175 ай бұрын
I'm impressed with the radio host confidence to make himself sound like a fool on the network.
@leonardskinard69425 ай бұрын
Flat out GOD GAVE US OUR RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES NOT GOVERNMENT
@takingbacktoxic78985 ай бұрын
The FBI and the BATFE are exactly why the founders did not want a standing army.
@emberfist83475 ай бұрын
Except that first they did create a create a Standing Army. The Regular was a full-time Army created in 1798 and exists to this day. And the FBI is something they would agree with existing under the Interstate regulatory powers they gave the Federal Government.
@allanfranklin96155 ай бұрын
All of these armed agencies with arrest powers equate to Hitler's Gestapo and Stalin's secret police, who cane in the middle of the night make the enemies of the state disappear. Sound familiar? 4am raids by ATF and FBI, armed to the teeth, taking people away in their underwear and zip ties, shooting people in their homes...think about it. That's why the 2nd Amendment exists, to keep the government in check once they become tyrannical. We are there now, something is going to happen.
@alwaysfreedom93545 ай бұрын
@@emberfist8347 Many of them argued against a fulltime army. All soldiers must agree to protect our Constitution from ALL enemies! Including the party of slavery. Biden has said many racist things over the years. In front of cameras. Same for his son. Also, many argued against the FBI. Said it was unconstitutional! They promised they would carry no guns and have no power to arrest! The racist who started the FBI kept screaming to be allowed to carry guns. And make arrests.
@aaronkaufman57115 ай бұрын
Well stated Mr. Noir. I too thought that you might call him out on his democracy comment. We are a Republic.