Government Officials Who Violate the Second Amendment Must Pay a Legal Price

We must end lawfare against the 2nd Amendment and hold those who violate it accountable.

Minuteman Statue, 2001 Photo: (Aldaron, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0)

This article is the fourth in a four-part series discussing various issues related to preserving, defending, and reinvigorating the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Whenever government officials fail to respect our Second Amendment (2A) rights, the DOJ must finally begin holding them accountable for violating peaceable American gun owners’ right to self-defense—and to life.

Recent Marx-Dem administrations have sicced their DOJ on fake civil rights violations. This includes the numerous local law enforcement agencies (like mine) on which they inflicted bogus consent decrees.

I hope President Donald J. Trump’s DOJ AG pick, the formidable Pam Bondi, tasks an equally impressive, nominated, Assistant AG for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon (who will replace the deplorable, woke cultural Marxist Kristen Clarke) to go after blue legislatures and other local and state officials across the U.S for actual civil rights violations—of the 2A. There must finally be consequences for officials who so blatantly violate Americans’ civil rights, like the 2A, or it will continue.

Let’s start by re-declaring that we have a God-given, unalienable right to life, to self-defense to preserve that life, and to keep and bear the most practical means to that defense, a firearm.

Gun-stupid folks may find the lack of asterisks and footnotes in the Declaration and Bill of Rights inconvenient, but there are none. Any exceptions to the 2A are limited to legitimate criminality, significant mental disabilities, and some non-citizenship issues.

Just because gun-stupid government executives, legislators, and judges have gotten away with infringing on Americans’ self-defense rights—civil rights—so often, for so long, doesn’t make it right or mean those illegal, immoral laws should stand. Instead, it makes it necessary to restore the 2A to equal status among all 10 Amendments by striking down those illegal, immoral laws.

Go to law school or a police academy, and you’ll quickly learn how nit picky the legal system can be about how laws are written, legislated, implemented, enforced, and adjudicated with every i dotted and every t crossed, or a case can go bust. For example, if a cop violates the 4^th Amendment’s “unreasonable search and seizure” prohibition and your case will likely be tossed.

But what happens when laws and people are treated inconsistently within the legal system such as when the law is turned into lawfare? The law can lose its moral authority. Even worse, Americans can lose their respect for and confidence in the law itself and even the entire legal system.

Just look at the national wobble FJB’s recent broad ranging presidential pardons or commutations of the sentences of his son Hunter and over a thousand others—so far—including child and cop-killers—knocked the country into. Americans are struggling mightily with their faith in the justice system. Let the restoration of confidence begin on Monday, January 20^th, 2025.

If FJB’s commutations of murders was a “moral stance,” as some suggest, he would have pardoned everyone on federal death row, but he didn’t. He pardoned 37 out of 40. The three remaining human vermin were too politically damaging to the Marx-Dems for even FJB to pardon. Political expediency over morality.

What about passing a constitutional amendment to repeal the 2A? The evil of amending the Constitution in this way would not erase a human being’s right to life and self-defense (unalienable, remember?). But the effort would at least follow the constitutional protocol. Fortunately, any effort would likely fail, at least, anytime soon—just as the Framers intended.

The National Rifle Association (NRA), founded in 1871, states, “The [NRA] is America’s longest-standing civil rights organization.” They initially formed to advance marksmanship because some Union Army generals lamented that many Civil War soldiers lacked proper shooting skills.

Later, in 1903, the NRA added teaching marksmanship to America’s youth, establishing “rifle clubs in major colleges, universities and military academies.”

In the beginning, they focused on marksmanship and gun handling, not gun rights because Americans considered gun rights a given protected by the Second Amendment. Fighting for “gun rights” wasn’t necessary because our rights were supposedly unalienable.

However, according to far-left Salon.com, they argue the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is correctly America’s oldest civil rights organization.

Founded in 1909, they say that even though the NRA’s founding precedes the NAACP by nearly 4 decades, they argue the NRA, established in 1871, didn’t form specifically for the purposes of fighting for civil rights. Salon asserts the NRA “did not actively begin lobbying for gun rights until nearly six decades later in 1934….”

There’s a good reason for that. It wasn’t until 1934 that the People’s 2A rights came under threat. After ‘34 the NRA recognized the need to fight for Americans’ civil rights “in response to repeated attacks on the Second Amendment Rights.”

But this “which is oldest” argument is rendered moot when you understand that an organization established to encourage better practices regarding the use of firearms, protected by the 2A, would have logically defended the People’s constitutional rights to self-defense and firearms because they did just that immediately when it became necessary.

The fact that the NRA’s “official” pro-2A legal activism didn’t start until it was needed, emerging organically in response to the oppression, doesn’t make the organization any less America’s oldest civil rights organization. The NRA logically adjusted its focus as the 2A oppression increased.

Besides, over recent decades, one can make an even better argument that the NAACP has become the National Association for the Advancement of (Liberal Democrat) Colored People.

So, since the NAA(LD)CP no longer focuses on the civil rights of the millions of black libertarians, conservatives, Republicans, and independents, according to Salon’s criteria, hasn’t the NAACP done the opposite of the NRA?

While the NAACP began as a civil rights organization, representing all black Americans, it has become a far-left, Democrat activist, lobbying organization.

Now, the NRA may not have started specifically as a civil rights organization, it has become that, defending the civil rights of 100 percent of peaceable gun owners all across America.

And plenty of great 2A-supporting organizations have joined them in the fight for this essential, civil, unalienable human right.

Should we continue to pretend that this crucial civil right, the 2A, is somehow lesser than our other natural and God-given unalienable rights? How about we return to treating the 2A as if it means what it says, just as we most often do with the other nine Amendments?

And, while we’re at it, let’s make sure the people who constantly violate our 2A rights, engaging in constitutional lawfare, make sure there is a high legal price to be paid for infringing on Americans’ right to life.