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	Comments on: Cold Civil War: Many College Students No Longer See the Rule of Law as a Restraint	</title>
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		By: Sam I Am		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam I Am]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When one holds the absolute moral high ground, war cannot harm you; only your opponents. It is what comes from generations of participation trophy awards. Evil denies the righteous their deserved comfort, and that is, like, uuuhhmm, like, unfair.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When one holds the absolute moral high ground, war cannot harm you; only your opponents. It is what comes from generations of participation trophy awards. Evil denies the righteous their deserved comfort, and that is, like, uuuhhmm, like, unfair.</p>
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		By: OldParatrooper		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[OldParatrooper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/cold-civil-war-many-college-students-no-longer-see-the-rule-of-law-as-a-restraint/comment-page-1/#comment-156536&quot;&gt;Wfjag&lt;/a&gt;.

Can you imagine a soi boy standing guard at two in the morning,  forty degrees and steady rain?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/cold-civil-war-many-college-students-no-longer-see-the-rule-of-law-as-a-restraint/comment-page-1/#comment-156536">Wfjag</a>.</p>
<p>Can you imagine a soi boy standing guard at two in the morning,  forty degrees and steady rain?</p>
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		By: OldParatrooper		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[OldParatrooper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/cold-civil-war-many-college-students-no-longer-see-the-rule-of-law-as-a-restraint/comment-page-1/#comment-156248&quot;&gt;Felix&lt;/a&gt;.

Remember,  a government strong enough to give you the necessities of life is also strong enough to take them away.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/cold-civil-war-many-college-students-no-longer-see-the-rule-of-law-as-a-restraint/comment-page-1/#comment-156248">Felix</a>.</p>
<p>Remember,  a government strong enough to give you the necessities of life is also strong enough to take them away.</p>
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		By: Wfjag		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wfjag]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is necessary to water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and traitors.

The first time it took about 80 years to get to that point. It’s been about 170 years since then. U.S. schools stopped teaching American History (and what made America exceptional) and Civics about a generation ago - about the same time the draft was ended. Until then even the sons of privilege could find themselves doing Basic Training next to a farm boy and a boy from The Hood. There was a leveling experience which the current crop of privileged children have never seen or heard of. Ignorance of history leads to repeating mistakes. We may see that happen again - with the same lessons again taught in blood.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes it is necessary to water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and traitors.</p>
<p>The first time it took about 80 years to get to that point. It’s been about 170 years since then. U.S. schools stopped teaching American History (and what made America exceptional) and Civics about a generation ago &#8211; about the same time the draft was ended. Until then even the sons of privilege could find themselves doing Basic Training next to a farm boy and a boy from The Hood. There was a leveling experience which the current crop of privileged children have never seen or heard of. Ignorance of history leads to repeating mistakes. We may see that happen again &#8211; with the same lessons again taught in blood.</p>
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		By: Peter Tripoli		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Tripoli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every one of them considers themself the main character, reinforced by watching movies where a 98 pound woman demolishes a 250 pound male.
It&#039;s not so much the gun skills as the coddling since birth and never taken a punch or fallen out of a tree.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every one of them considers themself the main character, reinforced by watching movies where a 98 pound woman demolishes a 250 pound male.<br />
It&#8217;s not so much the gun skills as the coddling since birth and never taken a punch or fallen out of a tree.</p>
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		By: Shire-man		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shire-man]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why not pick a fight with millions of NRA members? The majority of them are back-the-blue geriatrics who&#039;d shove themselves to the front of the line for a chance to sell their liberty for a 10% bump in Social Security.

The left has demonstrated time and again that they&#039;ll gladly burn, murder and loot for their cause, whatever that may be, while the &quot;legal&quot; system has demonstrated time and again they won&#039;t do shit to punish those rioting lefties and the right has demon time and again they&#039;d prefer to sit on their hands and keep their heads down lest they be called names.

A good starting point is for the right to understand they are being called names while they sit and keep their heads down. Fetal position all you want. They&#039;re just going to keep kicking.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why not pick a fight with millions of NRA members? The majority of them are back-the-blue geriatrics who&#8217;d shove themselves to the front of the line for a chance to sell their liberty for a 10% bump in Social Security.</p>
<p>The left has demonstrated time and again that they&#8217;ll gladly burn, murder and loot for their cause, whatever that may be, while the &#8220;legal&#8221; system has demonstrated time and again they won&#8217;t do shit to punish those rioting lefties and the right has demon time and again they&#8217;d prefer to sit on their hands and keep their heads down lest they be called names.</p>
<p>A good starting point is for the right to understand they are being called names while they sit and keep their heads down. Fetal position all you want. They&#8217;re just going to keep kicking.</p>
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		By: A Question, I Haz		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Question, I Haz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/cold-civil-war-many-college-students-no-longer-see-the-rule-of-law-as-a-restraint/comment-page-1/#comment-156248&quot;&gt;Felix&lt;/a&gt;.

**cough cough** en banc

But yes, to support the spirit of what you&#039;re saying, I present to you our California AB63, enacted in 2016, declared unconstitutional in 2017 by a federal judge, appealed by CA and subsequently declared unconstitutional a second time in 2018 by the Ninth Circuit, believe it or not...appealed again and declared unconstitutional a third time in 2019 by federal Judge Benitez, who permanently enjoined two of the law&#039;s four parts...

...then the Chief Justice of the Ninth took a very rare action by calling for his own en banc review (AB63 had not been appealed again by CA), whipping up a not-surprising mix of 11 judges consisting of 8 Dems and 3 Repubs.  And guess how the ruling went in favor of that &quot;unconstitutional&quot; law this time?...8 Dems in favor, and the 3 Repubs against.  So our statewide ban on the sale/transfer/importation of magazines holding more than 10 rds remains intact ten years later, despite having been properly ruled unconstitutional multiple times.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/cold-civil-war-many-college-students-no-longer-see-the-rule-of-law-as-a-restraint/comment-page-1/#comment-156248">Felix</a>.</p>
<p>**cough cough** en banc</p>
<p>But yes, to support the spirit of what you&#8217;re saying, I present to you our California AB63, enacted in 2016, declared unconstitutional in 2017 by a federal judge, appealed by CA and subsequently declared unconstitutional a second time in 2018 by the Ninth Circuit, believe it or not&#8230;appealed again and declared unconstitutional a third time in 2019 by federal Judge Benitez, who permanently enjoined two of the law&#8217;s four parts&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;then the Chief Justice of the Ninth took a very rare action by calling for his own en banc review (AB63 had not been appealed again by CA), whipping up a not-surprising mix of 11 judges consisting of 8 Dems and 3 Repubs.  And guess how the ruling went in favor of that &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; law this time?&#8230;8 Dems in favor, and the 3 Repubs against.  So our statewide ban on the sale/transfer/importation of magazines holding more than 10 rds remains intact ten years later, despite having been properly ruled unconstitutional multiple times.</p>
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		By: .40 cal Booger		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[.40 cal Booger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Left wing rules:

If you&#039;re conservative, saying men are not women is literal violence and you deserve to be shot in the neck.

If you&#039;re leftist, throwing rocks and bricks at federal agents, trying to run them over with your car, terrorizing churches, setting fires, and beating up and killing conservatives are all forms of peaceful protest, and anyone who tries to stop you is violating your civil rights.

Conservative rules:

Yeah, left wing rules don&#039;t work for us and we are just gonna shoot you and put you out of your misery.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Left wing rules:</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re conservative, saying men are not women is literal violence and you deserve to be shot in the neck.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re leftist, throwing rocks and bricks at federal agents, trying to run them over with your car, terrorizing churches, setting fires, and beating up and killing conservatives are all forms of peaceful protest, and anyone who tries to stop you is violating your civil rights.</p>
<p>Conservative rules:</p>
<p>Yeah, left wing rules don&#8217;t work for us and we are just gonna shoot you and put you out of your misery.</p>
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		By: Geoff PR		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoff PR]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The entire article is worth the read, here&#039;s a little more :

&quot;“Last month, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner issued a statement that would have been unthinkable from a major American law-enforcement official a generation ago. Speaking about federal immigration agents, Krasner declared: ‘In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice.‘”

The students, Abrams notes, are listening.

What is clear from the article, however, is that these young leftists have a very distorted idea what it means to choose violence over the rule of law. I’m hardly the first person to notice that many of the people interfering with ICE are delusionally imagining they can violently confront armed law enforcement agents without any consequences. At least two people have now lost their lives, but the lesson still has not sunk in. The communists and anarchists in the 1930s, and even the 1960s, were certainly depraved and destructive. But they at least possessed a certain realism or worldliness; they knew that violence is a two-way street, that revolutions are bloody, and that they lead to death and destruction on both sides.&quot;

Yes, they have a VERY distorted view of political violence, and they are well on their way to getting a very rude and personal reality check.

On the upside, it will result in easing the housing crisis, with lots of recently-vacant properties up for sale and rent...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The entire article is worth the read, here&#8217;s a little more :</p>
<p>&#8220;“Last month, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner issued a statement that would have been unthinkable from a major American law-enforcement official a generation ago. Speaking about federal immigration agents, Krasner declared: ‘In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice.‘”</p>
<p>The students, Abrams notes, are listening.</p>
<p>What is clear from the article, however, is that these young leftists have a very distorted idea what it means to choose violence over the rule of law. I’m hardly the first person to notice that many of the people interfering with ICE are delusionally imagining they can violently confront armed law enforcement agents without any consequences. At least two people have now lost their lives, but the lesson still has not sunk in. The communists and anarchists in the 1930s, and even the 1960s, were certainly depraved and destructive. But they at least possessed a certain realism or worldliness; they knew that violence is a two-way street, that revolutions are bloody, and that they lead to death and destruction on both sides.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, they have a VERY distorted view of political violence, and they are well on their way to getting a very rude and personal reality check.</p>
<p>On the upside, it will result in easing the housing crisis, with lots of recently-vacant properties up for sale and rent&#8230;</p>
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		By: Felix		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Felix]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Rule of Law means the law is written down so everyone knows ahead of time what is permitted, what is forbidden, and what is mandated.  It also applies to everyone, rich and poor, powerful and weak.

It&#039;s a myth, a fig leaf covering up Rule of Men.  The proof is in how an appeals court can reverse a jury 1-2, reverse themselves en bank 8-7, and the Supreme Court can reverse back again 4-5.  Each step takes a year or two, and the justices have the brightest law clerks, the best law libraries, a pile of amicus briefs telling them how to think, and all the time in the world to debate the issue -- and yet they somehow still differ on what the law means in that particular case.  Men interpret laws, and laws mean only what those men decide, after years of study.  Mere mortals have no hope of guessing what justices will decide years after they committed what they did not think was a crime.

This didn&#039;t matter back when government&#039;s meddling consisted of running the post office, starting wars, and raising revenue through low taxes.

We don&#039;t have that kind of government any more.  The day-to-day meddling really took off after LBJ and Nixon, the EPA, OSHA, vehicle design, CAFE, 55 mph, Prop 65, the War on Poverty, climate change, Jeffrey Epstein, you name it.

That&#039;s why people don&#039;t have faith in the Rule of Law.  It doesn&#039;t apply to everyone, and no one really knows what laws mean.  Remember &quot;We had to pass Obamacare to know what was in it&quot;?  Not even the legislators know what they vote for, and we have a Supreme Court justice, a woman, who doesn&#039;t know what a woman is.

It&#039;s a myth.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Rule of Law means the law is written down so everyone knows ahead of time what is permitted, what is forbidden, and what is mandated.  It also applies to everyone, rich and poor, powerful and weak.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a myth, a fig leaf covering up Rule of Men.  The proof is in how an appeals court can reverse a jury 1-2, reverse themselves en bank 8-7, and the Supreme Court can reverse back again 4-5.  Each step takes a year or two, and the justices have the brightest law clerks, the best law libraries, a pile of amicus briefs telling them how to think, and all the time in the world to debate the issue &#8212; and yet they somehow still differ on what the law means in that particular case.  Men interpret laws, and laws mean only what those men decide, after years of study.  Mere mortals have no hope of guessing what justices will decide years after they committed what they did not think was a crime.</p>
<p>This didn&#8217;t matter back when government&#8217;s meddling consisted of running the post office, starting wars, and raising revenue through low taxes.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t have that kind of government any more.  The day-to-day meddling really took off after LBJ and Nixon, the EPA, OSHA, vehicle design, CAFE, 55 mph, Prop 65, the War on Poverty, climate change, Jeffrey Epstein, you name it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why people don&#8217;t have faith in the Rule of Law.  It doesn&#8217;t apply to everyone, and no one really knows what laws mean.  Remember &#8220;We had to pass Obamacare to know what was in it&#8221;?  Not even the legislators know what they vote for, and we have a Supreme Court justice, a woman, who doesn&#8217;t know what a woman is.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a myth.</p>
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