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On this episode of the Resistance Library Dave and Sam discuss Joe Biden's stance on the Second Amendment. The one-two punch of the Coronavirus pandemic, and the civil unrest of early 2020, led to an unprecedented growth in firearms ownership in America. All told, there were about two million firearms sold in the month of March 2020 alone. Between March and July, an additional three million were sold, with about half of those happening in the month of June. Ammunition sales have similarly spiked, with record sales occurring on this website. However, gun owners don't need a report to know that there has been a massive surge in demand for ammunition. They need only go down to their local gun store and see that all of the most common rounds are in short supply, sold out or being rationed at the point of sale. But it's not just guns and ammo. There has also been a significant increase in the number of Americans obtaining their concealed carry weapons permit and packing on a daily basis. Forbes magazine estimates that 20 million Americans are now carrying as part of their everyday life. The flipside of this is that Joe Biden's 2020 campaign has been perhaps the most radically anti-Second Amendment campaign on record. Former Vice President Biden is very proud of his role in spiriting the 1994 gun ban into passage. If he's elected, we will see an expansion of the power of the federal government and attacks on the rights of Americans that will not be restricted to the ownership of firearms. As president, Biden would resume the Obama-era attacks on the suburbs ended by President Trump, give citizenship (and voting rights) to nearly 30 million illegal aliens and use the Federal Reserve to address a "racial wealth gap." However, Biden's desire to erode the Second Amendment deserves special attention. It is a radical agenda that will gut the right to bear arms in this country. Does that sound like bluster and hyperbole? It's not. You can read the full article "Joe Biden on Gun Control: Understanding Biden's 2020 Platform and the Second Amendment" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 Helpful Links:

• Joe Biden on Gun Control: Understanding Biden's 2020 Platform and the Second Amendment
• The Biden Plan To End Our Gun Violence Epidemic
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On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam and Dave discuss what a constitutional republic is versus a pure democracy and how the U.S. election process has changed since its founding. Conservatives are generally quick to point out that America is a republic, not a democracy. But what really is the difference, and are they even right? Voting in America has changed considerably since the days of our founding. Back then, the government didn't even print official ballots. Instead, you got ballots from the candidate who wanted your support. Sometimes voting took place in public, so everyone knew who you voted for. And, of course, the franchise was largely restricted to white, male property owners. Now, anyone who turns 18 can vote. And the Democratic Party wants to increase ballot access by automatically registering anyone who gets a driver's license. Democrats even pushed for mail-in ballots for the 2020 election to make voting even easier – and more open to voter fraud. But is any of this a good thing? Indeed, it is worth considering the transformation of the United States from a Constitutional Republic, ruled by law with the input of the people, to a total democracy, where the will of the people dominates all other discussion. You can read the full article "Constitutional Republic vs. Pure Democracy: How the U.S. Election Process Has Changed" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 Helpful Links:

• Constitutional Republic vs. Pure Democracy: How the U.S. Election Process Has Changed
• Battle of Athens: The Forgotten History of the Tennessee Rebellion Against Local Government
• Founding Fathers Quotes on Government, Democracy, and Placing Power in the People
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On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Dave and Sam discuss farm subsidies in the United States. Farm subsidies are perhaps the ultimate, but secret, third rail of American politics. While entitlements are discussed out in the open, farm subsidies are rarely talked about – even though they are the most expensive subsidy Washington doles out. All told, the U.S. government spends $20 billion annually on farm subsidies, with approximately 39 percent of all farms receiving some sort of subsidy. For comparison, the oil industry gets about $4.6 billion annually and annual housing subsidies total another $15 billion. A significant portion of this $20 billion goes not to your local family farm, but to Big Aggie. (Note that this $20 billion annual farm subsidy figure doesn't take into account the 30+ years of ethanol subsidies to the corn industry nor export subsidies to U.S. farmers issued by the USDA.) The government never properly explains why this is. Certainly small farmers are growing their crops at enormous risk. However, it's not clear that agriculture is any different than other high-risk industries – especially because the United States is blessed with some of the most fertile farmland in the world, and a highly skilled labor force. Subsidies don't just cost taxpayers, an expense that might properly be justified by showing a return on investment. Subsidies also provide powerful disincentives against innovation, as well as cost effectiveness and diversification of land use. There is also a strong case to be made that farm subsidies are a major driver of the obesity and cancer epidemic in the United States. Every time Washington interferes in the private sector, they are picking winners and losers. The winners chosen are companies producing food that's high in calories and low in nutritional density – and that helps make Americans sick and fat, because it distorts what food is available at what price. While President Trump has sometimes discussed reducing farm subsidies, the solution to the problem is much more radical – the total elimination of all farm subsidies from the federal budget. You can read the full article "Food Is Freedom: How Washington's Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 Helpful Links:

• Food Is Freedom: How Washington's Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick
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On today's episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam and Dave discuss the current state of America's suburbs and the war against single-family housing. There are few things more synonymous with the American way of life than the suburbs. While certainly not without problems, the suburbs have been home to middle class Americans since the end of World War 2, and even before. But the suburbs are under attack from certain elements of the left as a source of social inequality and (what else?) "white privilege" and "white supremacy." If you are alarmed by this article, that's a good thing. Because these elements of the American left seek nothing more than the total destruction of your way of life, from the people who live in your communities to the types of houses that you live in to the places where you will be allowed to shop and how you get from one place to another. The policy is called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), but beyond this specific HUD policy, there's a philosophical and political attack on suburbs that goes well in excess of any single policy. There is, without mincing words, a War on the Suburbs in America. It is a war not against a geographical location or a type of housing or community, but an attack on a way of life. You can read the full article "War on the Suburbs: How HUD's Housing Policies Became a Weapon for Social Change" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 Helpful Links:

• War on the Suburbs: How HUD's Housing Policies Became a Weapon for Social Change
• Woke Capitalism: How Huge Corporations Demonstrate Status by Endorsing Political Radicalism
• Bowling Alone: How Washington Has Helped Destroy American Civil Society and Family Life
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If you say "September 11" most people automatically think of the attacks on the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. What they probably don't even remember happened on September 11, were the attacks on the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Dave and Sam discuss the two attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Once the Libyan Revolution began in February 2011, the CIA began placing assets in the region, attempting to make contacts within the region. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, whose name and image would soon become synonymous with the Benghazi attacks, was the first liaison between the United States and the rebels. The task before the American intelligence community at that time was securing arms in the country, most notably shoulder-fired missiles, taken from the Libyan military. Eastern Libya and Benghazi were the primary focal points of intelligence-gathering in the country. But there was something else at work here: The CIA was using the country as a base to funnel weapons to anti-Assad forces in Syria, as well as their alleged diplomatic mission. You can read the full article "The Benghazi Attack: The Forgotten History of the 2012 Attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 Helpful Links:

• The Benghazi Attack: The Forgotten History of the 2012 Attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya
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On today's episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Dave joins Sam Jacobs as a new host. They discuss the civil unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s. As the summer of 2020 dawned, left-wing radical groups began rioting and taking over parts of America's cities. While this specific form of left-wing violence is new, left-wing violence itself is far from new in the United States. Indeed, one of the most hidden and concealed parts of recent American history is the extensive left-wing violence that began in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s. At first, one might think that these were isolated incidents of small-scale "protest" or even minor violence. However, upon even brief examination, we find out that the outpouring of leftist violence over this time period was anything but minor. The most likely explanation for why you have never heard of this until now is that the events of these years have been consciously buried by those who would prefer you not know about them. As the left once again ratchets up both its rhetoric and its physical violence, it's time to re-explore this period of American history. What started as a non-violent student movement quickly escalated into a campaign of terrorism against the American people. And while the similarities may not be terribly striking yet, astute readers of this article will quickly see the world in which we live more and more closely resembling the Days of Rage. You can read the full article "America's 'Days of Rage': The Extensive Left-Wing Bombings & Domestic Terrorism of the 1970s" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 Helpful Links:

• America's "Days of Rage": The Extensive Left-Wing Bombings & Domestic Terrorism of the 1970s
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On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Dan and Sam discuss the history of Jim Crow in the American South, which is one the Democratic Party would rather you forget. Black voters have voted en masse for the Democratic Party since the mid-60s and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the social welfare programs of the Great Society. This solidified black voters behind the Democratic Party, but they had been moving there since the New Deal. However, it's a historical anomaly in the United States. The traditional home of the black voter was the Republican Party, due to its historical role in ending slavery and introducing Reconstruction Acts and Amendments to the Constitution. It also did not help that the Democratic Party was the party of Jim Crow, a system of legally enforced segregation present throughout the American South in the aftermath of the Civil War. You can read the full article "Democrats & Jim Crow: A Century of Racist History the Democratic Party Prefers You'd Forget" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 Helpful Links:

• Democrats & Jim Crow: A Century of Racist History the Democratic Party Prefers You'd Forget
• Black America Before LBJ: How the Welfare State Inadvertently Helped Ruin Black Communities
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On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam Jacobs invites Andy Marcantel to the show to discuss gun rights in America.

Andrew Marcantel is a criminal defense attorney with Attorneys for Freedom in Arizona. He identifies as an anarchist and is an experienced defender of Second Amendment rights in the trenches of the American courts. We had him on to talk about both the philosophical and practical aspects of Second Amendment rights in America today.

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• Andrew Marcantel | Attorneys for Freedom
• Andrew Marcantel | Lawyer Profile

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On this episode Sam invites Mark Thornton onto the show. Together they discuss the economics of slavery and the long lasting effects of it on economies.

Mark Thornton is an economic historian and a senior fellow with the Mises Institute. While everyone knows a bit about slavery, few think about the economics of it. It is the contention of Thornton that slavery was not a profitable institution in the antebellum South and that its after effects continue to drive the industrial underdevelopment of the region today.

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• Mark Thornton | Mises Institute
• Mark Thornton Books on Amazon
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On this episode Dan and Sam discuss deplatforming and corporate gun control. Anyone familiar with the Bible is familiar with the Mark of the Beast: Without this mark, no man may buy or sell. Regardless of one's religious faith or lack thereof, there is an illustrative case in this biblical story: When one cannot buy or sell, one is metaphorically up the creek. Short of producing everything one needs oneself, buying and selling are necessary parts of virtually every modern person's life. In our modern world, we can begin to see a sort of Mark of the Beast: While ideas and even objects aren't banned, they are increasingly difficult to come by, not due to government fiat, but due to the machinations of corporations hostile to the American values of freedom. One can be in favor of the free market while recognizing a simple truth: There is no way that America's Founding Fathers would have sat on their hands while five corporations dominated American discourse and commerce. It is hard to imagine, for example, the Founders suffering a single private bank processing most of the payments in the United States and refusing to do business with gun merchants. Alternately, one can scarcely imagine that the Founders would have sat still for three companies – all of them hostile toward American values and the Constitution – dominating political discourse and deplatforming anyone who opposed them. This is the situation in which we find ourselves as a nation today: Guns are not illegal, but private companies will make it increasingly difficult to buy, sell or own them – up to and including pulling your bank account. You have all the freedom of speech you like, but prepare to be deplatformed or have your voice buried by large tech corporations with their thumb on the scale of American discourse. As the American economy has become more corporatist – such that the market is controlled by the interrelation between monolithic mega-corporations, Wall Street and the state – and less capitalistic and dynamic, the American press and economy are now being dominated by forces hostile toward the American public and American values. No less an authority than James Madison warned Americans that the First Amendment alone was not enough to protect free speech. In Federalist No. 47 and Federalist No. 51, he argued that the separation of powers was necessary to protect free speech by preventing one branch of government from accumulating too much power at the expense of the others and, indeed, the rest of society at large. This is an important point to remember when considering the First Amendment implications of Big Tech and its war on free speech and gun freedom. The Founding Fathers did not live in a world where a few large corporations had more power than the (incredibly limited and power impoverished) government had, either at the federal or the state level. It's doubtful that they could have conceived of such a thing. But they did carefully consider the problem of centralized power as it pertained to the rights enshrined in the Constitution. At the end of the day, the Constitution is just a piece of paper with no ability to enforce itself. What's more, if the Founders did not address the notion that the private sector could meaningfully and substantially circumvent rights for all Americans, it was simply because they could not conceive of such a thing, not because they were writing the private sector a blank check. You can read the full article "Deplatformed: How Big Tech Companies & Corporate America Subvert the Second Amendment" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 Helpful Links:

• Deplatformed: How Big Tech Companies & Corporate America Subvert the Second Amendment
• Founding Fathers Quotes on Guns and the Second Amendment's Right to Keep & Bear Arms
• The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights: An Interactive Guide to the Articles and Amendments
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