Have you been watching TV lately? You’d have to be living under a rock not to observe an ever-spiraling series of events that threaten to overwhelm the most steadfast among us. You hear it everywhere: domestic and foreign events are as kinetic and dynamic as they’ve been since the end of WWII. From internal unrest to war in Europe and one of America’s major adversaries in open revolt against the Mullahs, what should we take away?
Three Places, One Pattern: The State’s Claim to Exclusive Force:-
Let’s connect events in NYC, Minneapolis, and Iran that have in common—the desire by the State to reserve access to firearms for themselves. Seemingly disparate events with no connections become blindly clear when you shift your focus. First, let’s lay out the events that we will connect:
- Iran is the easiest to understand. Some of the best analysts advised that Iran’s totalitarian government, as well as the state security apparatus, meant Iran was not ready to be toppled. Contrary to what many thought, Iran is now in play, and depending on what Trump does in the next few days or weeks, Iran’s Mullahs may be on the way out. Iranians canown guns, but only under very strict, state-controlled conditions, leading to few people actually owning a firearm and virtually no ordinary citizens.
- In his inauguration speech as New York City Mayor, Mamdanideclared—We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Mamdani and members of his administration don’t believe in a right to own a gun and have warned that they have designs on your private property and wealth.
- In Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Freyand Governor Tim Walz exhibit the kind of chutzpah usually reserved for comedians or certifiably insane people when they contemporaneously run, or are responsible for, one of the largest frauds in American history and scream at us how caring they are for their “Neighbors”—code for illegal aliens that they come right out and say it, aren’t required to follow American laws. Minneapolis is another rapidly anti-gun city.There’s a particular rhetorical pattern that both Frey and Tim Walz use (as well as other sanctuary jurisdictions) when talking about people who are in the U.S. unlawfully. They don’t deny that immigration violations exist — but they consistently frame the issue so the conversation is no longer about lawbreaking but about public safety, community trust, and federal responsibility. Subterfuge in service of their messaging: they can pick and choose which laws they will comply with!
Iran, Mamdani, Frey, and Walz are collectivists. Each named actor displays policies or institutional features that align with collectivist principles: Iran’s state ideology centers on collective governance (State centered ideology, institutionalized collective authority, and policy priorities that subordinate individual market choice to regime and social goals); Mamdani champions public-oriented, shared-resource policies; Frey emphasizes expanded public services and municipal coordination; Walz has pursued large-scale state programs and redistributive policies that closely resemble a criminal conspiracy masquerading as collectivism on multiple fronts.
Collectivist projects ultimately depend on coercive force because large-scale redistribution and centralized coordination routinely conflict with entrenched private interests and individual autonomy, so states or institutions must use legal force, incentives, and enforcement mechanisms to implement and sustain collective policies.
All three of the above issues rely on the threat of, or use of, force to ensure that the government, in this case New York City, Tehran, and Minneapolis, exercises exclusive authority to decide when to use it and how to characterize it. In Iran, New York City, and Minneapolis, the ability to fight the government is limited by the government’s near monopoly on firearms ownership, which effectively empowers it and ultimately encourages it to violate our God-given and Constitutional rights. Notably, every Sanctuary City is also an anti-gun enclave with commensurate higher crime statistics. The top 20 largest cities share in common: high crime rates, mostly sanctuary-city status, and Democrat-run.
The Second Amendment: A Check on Power:-
We must value our Second Amendment as our most important right, as it guarantees all our other rights. The Second Amendment ensures that, regardless of government fiat, we have the means to resist unconstitutional government intrusion. A government that overreaches its constitutional mandate should rightfully be afraid of a lawfully armed populace. When the day comes that Americans can no longer resist their government, politicians, and demi-gods like Mamdani, the Ayatollah Ali Khamene, and yes, people like Jacob Frey and Tim Walz, we will have lost our ability to protect ourselves. We will no longer be free men, but serfs in service to the collective.
Take what is happening on the streets in Iran as a cautionary tale of what happens when tyrants subjugate an unarmed populace, whether they are Mullahs or Mayors, makes no difference. Firearms ownership has long been understood as more than a matter of personal defense; it functions as a structural check on how far a government can intrude into the private lives of its citizens. Political theorists from multiple traditions—liberal, republican, and even some progressive schools—treat an armed populace as a signal that authority must govern through consent rather than coercion. When ordinary people possess the means to resist, the State is pushed toward persuasion, transparency, and lawful procedures rather than intimidation or unilateral force.
Conclusion:-
We either live by the law or we die by it. Iran today, New York City tomorrow, as they come to take your wealth or your home, and in Minnesota, where a governor can decide which laws he supports and which he demigogues, all while at least condoning the theft of billions of your tax dollars.
Is that what we want?
God Bless America!
Allan J. Feifer—Patriot
Author, Businessman, Thinker, and Strategist. Read more about Allan, his background, and his ideas to create a better tomorrow at www.1plus1equals2.com. Read additional great writers here.
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