Navigating the maze of life demands focus, perspective, & kung fu
What will we choose - bowing down to the terrorists who would reject the states' authority to protect the public from COVID-19, or standing up to them even if that means using the National Guard to do so?
"No mask, no service" is only controversial because the people affected by it are used to being on the giving end of such restrictions, not the receiving end.
Gun-rights activists love to claim that they're members of the unorganized militia until you point out to them that the Constitution doesn't make any distinction between the organized and unorganized militia and that Article I, Section 8 explicitly grants Congress the right to organize, arm, and discipline the militia.
Backdating continues to confound Colorado COVID-19 data to the point that we still can't justify the relaxation of the statewide stay-at-home order.
There comes a point when the people demand the government do something. When the majority is large enough, that's not tyranny anymore - it's representative democracy in action. At that point, if the government fails to do what the people demand, that's tyranny.
The only people calling to relax the lockdowns are whites who are among the least likely to die from it. That's white privilege and selfishness.
No COVID-19 data from the last week should be used to make any irreversible decisions about COVID-19 policy in the state of Colorado, and based on the analysis below, data from as far as two weeks ago should be considered suspect.
Never forget that exercising your rights means you must also exercise them responsibly. Your right to "live free or die" ends when it infringes on the rights of others.
Amending the Constitution is intentionally difficult, requiring 2/3rds of the House and Senate to pass an amendment and ¾ of the states to ratify it. Amending the Second Amendment would require an overwhelming supermajority of Americans and a tectonic shift in public opinion about guns.
