Our right to defend ourselves
What (if anything) should restrict our God-given right to defend ourselves? To keep and bear arms? The US Constitution seeks to protect this God-given right (and power) for individuals by telling us that Congress shall make no law infringing on that fundamental liberty.
Most States have similar clauses in their State Constitutions.
Some of them even pay attention to it. Sadly, the FedGov – that is, Congress and the Executive Branch and even the Courts – does NOT pay much attention to it.
One major example of that is the tyrannical denial to people age 18, 19, and 20 that fundamental right.
Is that changing? As reported in Breitbart, the US Fifth Circuit court has said that 18-20-year-olds are full citizens who can keep and bear arms. And that federal (and State law) that prohibits them from buying and owning and carrying firearms are unconstitutional.
She continued, “In sum…[statues which ‘prohibit Federal Firearms Licensees]…from selling or delivering handguns to adults under the age of twenty-one. and their attendant regulations are unconstitutional in light of our Nation’s historic tradition of firearm regulation.”
Despite this (and many other warnings) more and more States and localities seem to be trying to deny even more people their God-given right to keep and carry arms for the defense of themselves, their families, communities, properties and liberties. (Yes, in recent years many States and the Federal courts have recognized and restored protection, but the battle is far from over.)
Examples: the State of Colorado’s General Assembly has sent a number of bills to take away more liberty to the governor. That perverted, smooth-talking thug foolishly elected by the people will undoubtedly sign it. After a suitable mellerdrama show of “forcing” the legislature to back off a little bit on some of the provisions. Among other things, the State will deny those very 18-20 year olds some of the rights that Fifth Circuit has recognized. How? By denying them the ability to buy ammo unless they are in the military or in certain rural areas.
Admittedly, both of these provisions smell very much like unconstitutional discrimination against others. Blatant ones. At least according to the 5th Circuit (which sadly Colorado is not a part of.)
And indeed, people claiming to be libertarians have proposed even more: Citing the (immoral) example of limiting sales of tobacco, alcohol, and spray paint to those over age 21, at least one prominent libertarian in Colorado has openly advocated for a similar age-restriction to be applied to guns and ammunition. Yes, some are that unsure of what liberty means.
The US Constitution, and the State Constitutions, do not try to establish an age at which a person becomes an adult. A wise move. Sadly, the 26th Amendment creates a de facto age for adulthood: eighteen. Until that was ratified in 1971, the de facto age of “majority” (adulthood) was 21, because most States (who had the authority to set their own minimum voting ages) gave that age for voting.
However, the 26th Amendment was unnecessary, in the same way that the 19th Amendment (voting rights for women) was unnecessary. And actually stole power from the States and gave it to the FedGov. Prior to 1971, several States (starting with Kentucky and Georgia, nearly 20 years earlier) had already lowered their voting (and defacto adulthood) age to 18. Just as many territories and States had recognized the right of women to vote long before 1920.
In the same way, the individual States could have (and were) lowering the age of voting. Just as they were recognizing the right of women to vote. But this process did not satisfy either the thugs who infest DC – Congress and the White House and the Supreme Court. Nor did it satisfy the Regressives (who call themselves by the false label of Progressives) who wanted to corrupt the system of government and make the United States into the unitary United State. And who have largely succeeded.
Perhaps we are seeing the pendulum swing the other way. But more important, we may be seeing a trend of restoring individual freedom and personal and economic liberty.
Source: https://freedombunker.com/2025/03/24/our-right-to-defend-ourselves/
