Thread by @sacrebleu141

1st: Civil Rights
See the actions of those who actively tried to deny the Freedom Riders from registering Black Americans from voting

Deacons for Defense and Justice took to arms to protect the young adults and children

#ShallNotBeInfringed
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2nd: See the Sullivan Act of 1911 in NYC was enacted

Specifically to deny newly immigrated Italian, Irish, & Eastern European Americans from exercising their ability of self defense

selected enforcement still occurs today, that law still on the books

#ShallNotBeInfringed
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3rd: Family history

Inlaws were in Czechoslovakia when Soviet tanks rolled through Prague to shut down the Democracy movement in 1968

The citizens had 0 means to defend themselves at all

#ShallNotBeInfringed

As refugees, came to the US specifically for the #2A & Freedom

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4th: Police have No Duty nor Obligation to respond to my or anyone else’s 911 call for help

Even if the Dispatcher says officers are on the way; the officers are under no legal obligation to respond

Numerous SCOTUS rulings, going back over 100 years

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#ShallNotBeInfringed

5th: My Human Rights of Self Determination

If I am to have the full ability to determine my abilities, choices in life, body autonomy:

I must have the means to defend myself from those who would attempt to prey upon me

#ShallNotBeInfringed

and that includes by any means

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6th: to those who claim that it is a public health crisis

Science proves them wrong repeatedly; such manipulation of the general public actively prevents the work needed to address the critical issues leading to the 2 top causes of firearm fatalities

#ShallNotBeInfringed

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7th: No man can be free unless they can defend their life, what they need to survive, and their family from abuse, harm, death.

#ShallNotBeInfringed

This is why I train
This is why I carry

This is why I defend Civil & Human Rights; inclusive w/Right of Self Defense

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