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On Arms, Liberty, and the American Covenant

In the year 2024, more than half a million Minnesotans purchased a hunting license. Across this nation, nearly 16 million Americans did the same. In Minnesota alone, nearly four in ten households keep a firearm. In 2025, Minnesota issued 820,140 total background checks for purchases on new firearms. These are not radicals. These are not extremists. These are neighbors. And in an era of obvious government overreach, these figures have protected Us from even greater trauma. For seven decades, the proportion of armed citizens in this country has held remarkably steady. The violence we witness today is not born of the gun. It is born of something older and darker, a moral deterioration that has crept into the spaces where community, faith, and shared purpose once stood. To blame the tool is to absolve the rot. And we cannot afford that luxury any longer. There are those in the halls of corporate power and those in the chambers of government who have grown too comfortable in the belief that their authority is self sustaining. That the consent of the governed is a formality rather than a foundation. That the people exist to serve the institution, rather than the institution existing to serve the people. This is a dangerous comfort. The Second Amendment is not merely a provision for hunters or sportsmen, as worthy as they are. It is a covenant. A covenant between a free people and the republic they created, a permanent and unambiguous declaration that power in this nation flows from the citizen outward, and not from the capital downward. An armed people is not a threat to good governance. It is the very condition that makes good governance necessary. Let those who hold power be reminded quietly, constitutionally, and without hesitation of who placed it in their hands. And let them never forget who can take it back.
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