Why the political arguments used by conservatives to twist the Second Amendment are a public fraud

For decades, conservatives in America have shouted that the Second Amendment exists to protect citizens from government tyranny.

They have armed themselves to the teeth, wrapping violence in the U.S. flag and sanctifying the rifle as a symbol of “freedom.” They said guns were the only thing standing between liberty and dictatorship. That armed patriots would rise up if the government ever turned on its own people.

Now the government under Donald Trump has done exactly that, and these so-called defenders of liberty are nowhere to be found.

What we are witnessing today is not theoretical tyranny. It is real. The federal government, under the Trump regime, has used militarized federal forces and ICE agents like a personal Gestapo. Peaceful demonstrators have been assaulted, journalists det