(1) Shady characters who openly identify themselves as the enemies of individual liberty and of Western Civilization have long wanted to deprive the American people of their unalienable, Constitutional right to own and carry weapons—so they could do things to us that they couldn't do if we were armed.

The late, unlamented Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, that 1960s' doyen of gun control—if not a card-carrying communist himself, then the legal mouthpiece for communists—used to tell reporters "off the record" that he didn't give a damn about safety or reducing crime, all he wanted was to see the Productive Class disarmed. Metzenbaum regarded "gun control" as an instrument of class-warfare, a purely Marxist concept. The reporters, at the time, who failed to tell the public about Metzenbaum's secret objective were our enemies, as well, and remain so to this day. Concerned Americans since then have been engaged in continuous warfare against new restrictions on our Second Amendment rights, as a web-work of crippling Jim Crow-like laws and regulations grows up around us.

(2) Now exactly the same political vermin are demanding that violent criminals be released from jail by the tens of thousands—using Public Health as the excuse of the moment—so that they are free to rape and rob and murder decent human beings again and again, sometimes only hours after they are let go.