"Globalize the intifada!"
That's been the battle cry of the Free Palestine types since Israel had the audacity to fight back after the October 7th attacks. Apparently, they were supposed to just shrug and take extermination on the chin, as if they hadn't experienced it before.
For those who are interested in what that whole cry looks like in practice, look to Bondi Beach for the most recent example.
But I don't want to delve super deep into that. I just needed to set the stage for what grabbed my attention on the piece I do want to talk about, because it took that battle cry and turned it on its head.
The headline was simple, "Globalize the Second Amendment," and I couldn't help but smile.
Since 1996, the Land Down Under has gone under when it comes to respecting natural rights. The government enforced a massive gun confiscation program nearly thirty years ago, masquerading as a gun buyback proposal. There was nothing voluntary about it. One mass shooting, and the government induced everyday Aussies to lose their minds, conning them into giving up their guns.
Gun control is not just a bad policy; based on the latest horrific mass shooting, it’s plain evil. Any country, or rather any government that thinks it’s okay to take away a people’s firearms — that government is automatically illegitimate, and our American leaders should not resist stating that fact.
Granted, most thinkers (?) and commentators around the world scoff at the Second Amendment and fear massive gun violence in their countries. Liberal pundits like Piers Morgan excoriated conservatives like Alex Jones and Ben Shapiro over their resistance to gun control and their insistence on maintaining the right to keep and bear arms in the United States. Gun control advocates love to point at the statistics, shooting off the number of gun-related deaths in the United States compared to other countries. Many of the statistics are doctored and distorted, or they fail to indicate that many gun deaths are suicide-related or occur in urban areas with little enforcement of the law. The problem is never the guns, but the people who are misusing the firearms and the government entities that refuse to prosecute criminals.
One can only hope that a horrid mass shooting like what happened in Australia would be just the discharge needed for people around the world to give up their inherent or indoctrinated aversion to firearms.
There’s been a lot of talk about “globalizing the intifada.” Perhaps the United States should use its soft political power and cultural heft to globalize the Second Amendment, and start pressuring Western governments to respect the natural rights of their citizens to keep and bear arms.
It's not a terrible idea.
Of course, that's only going to work when you've got a legitimately pro-gun president in the White House, because no previous administration would likely even consider such a thing. Yes, I'm including Trump's first term in that.
Exporting the right to keep and bear arms, though, is precisely what we should be doing, because natural rights are rights we have by virtue of being free men and women. It's not an American right, but a human one. We should be fighting back against gun control throughout the supposed free world and beyond.
Plus, it would benefit the United States from a national security standpoint.
If China, for example, wants to roll over Australia, I'm sure the Aussie military will put up a fierce fight. However, most of their hope revolves around the United States getting there in time to help.
If their population were properly armed, they could help stem the tide. They might even be able to reverse it with the help of their former enemies, the emus.
Seriously, it would at least help, and then we wouldn't be counted on to do all of the heavy lifting.
The same would be true if Russia got its crap together, rolled over Ukraine, and decided that Finland, Poland, and other Eastern European nations need to be under Russian control as they start a march clear across the continent.
As it stands, every strategy hinges on the United States pushing back. It's why so many European nations have such weak militaries.
If they respected the right to keep and bear arms, then all of Europe would be more like Switzerland, with its militia that can be ready to fight back in short order.
Globalizing the Second Amendment is a great idea, and we most definitely need to start pushing it. It's in our interests and, frankly, our allies'.
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