Nick Fuentes
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I'm going to let you in on a big secret.
Did you know the Second Amendment was not about fighting tyranny?
I'm sick of these people who have this like seventh grade American traditionalist view of the Second Amendment where they're like the founding fathers were concerned the government would take over – the government would take over –
but tyrannical government would oppress them, so they needed to be armed at all times.
There was a factor in the Second Amendment of which was the regulars from the crown were trying to take our guns from us, for which we used to protect ourselves, and we said, no.
And if you allow us to take your weapons, you will be oppressed.
But the principal reason for the Second Amendment was not just because they were like, guys, what if we'd overthrow our new government?
In fact, a bunch of the founding fathers were like, we don't wanna give the people guns, they'll overthrow us.
We just want a new government.
The principal issue is the general defense of a free state, which can be interpreted to mean fighting tyrannical government, but typically was about foreign invaders and not having strong standing armies.
That's why the original article, of which I think it would have been Article 4 or 5, actually, before they got rid of the first two and then reduced everything down.
a provision about conscription not being necessary because the actual intent was in a time of war, we need people to be able to defend their communities.
Only one component of that is in the event of tyrannical government.
However, Thomas Jefferson, who famously wrote the letter saying that, you know, what is it, every 200 years, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants, later went to say, yeah, I shouldn't have said that.
And many of the founding fathers actually held the opinion that the crown wasn't necessarily the problem, parliament was, and the king would not come to their aid.
It wasn't this cut and dry thing like the king is bad.
No, it was, we're not being represented in government.
As it stands right now, Ulysses Grant, what he wrote was, you have...