The short answer is, we all lose. No change that comes from war and violence is ever good. Shutting down free speech and restricting open debate on controversial issues leaves us open the the frustration that follows, usually manifested in hatred, division, and violence.
There are millions of ex military and their families who are peaceful, freedom loving Americans, who believe in our system of governance. Add hunters, gun owners, patriots, free speech advocates, Republicans, conservatives, Libertarians, deplorables, honest liberals, law enforcment, and current military, to that list. All of these people can be formidable opponents.
Those on the left who are promoting violence, threats, and intimidation toward these people are foolish. These people are by and large peace loving people, but if they feel threatened; beware. They will defend themselves and their freedoms.
Good people can agree to disagree. Do not listen to the haters and dividers among us. When they preach violence between Americans, they have gone too far, and do not deserve to be followed.
Watch – Rand Paul’s Wife: I Sleep with a Loaded Gun Thanks to Leftists’ Threats
Kelley Paul, the wife of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), described her increasing concerns for the safety of herself and her family amidst increasing calls from Democrats and the broader left to amplify politically motivated hostility towards Republicans. She offered her remarks in a Friday interview with Breitbart News Deputy Political Director Amanda House.
“We’ve updated all of our security systems at home. I sleep with a loaded gun by my bed. I’m home alone a lot, obviously when Rand is [in Washington, DC], and so I’ve got deadbolts all around my house so that if someone’s in my house when I go to bed I’m deadbolted in three different levels,” Paul told House.
“It’s bizarre. I’ve never been like this in my whole life. … We used to never even lock our doors, and now that has all changed. Even going out to dinner in D.C., last night, you worry. You hope that people aren’t going to come up and just start screaming at you.”
Paul recalled a neighbor assaulting her husband outside their home in Bowling Green, KY, describing what she said is an increasingly politically polarized America. Her husband suffered broken ribs as a result of the attack, and the attacker was sentenced to 30 days of incarceration.
“Words do matter, and there are so many, quite frankly, unhinged [and] unstable people out there, and when they hear someone on their side telling them, ‘Get up in their face,’ they take that literally, and they think that gives them a license to be very aggressive, be harassing, throw people out of restaurants, and I don’t think anybody wants to live in a country like that,” Paul continued.
Paul’s op-ed was prefaced with the clause describing it as an “open letter” to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who she said had encouraged his political supporters to threaten and intimidate Republican politicians.
In June, Booker urged his supporters to “get up in the face of congresspeople.” Booker’s communications director later described his boss’s statement as “an appeal for political activism that seeks common ground” illustrative of an “enduring commitment to decency.”
In 2017, a left-wing supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attempted a mass murder of Republican politicians, opening fire at a baseball practice in Alexandria, VA. Rand Paul, who was present at the event, later said “nobody would have survived … it would have been a massacre [if not for the Capitol Police].”
Mrs. Paul expressed fear of a future violent attack being inspired by Democrats’ calls for hostility towards Republicans.
“It is very threatening, and it’s very frightening, frankly, to feel like you are under assault, and that your own home address is being released for the purposes of intimidating [or] threatening you in some way,” Paul said.
“Because of the violence that Rand has experienced in the last year, it does scare me that there is going to be somebody that is really unstable that takes that message a step further and that something terrible happens to someone in this toxic and highly polarized environment.”
House asked Paul if her family considered withdrawal from politics in light of left-wing threats directed against them.
Paul replied that her husband is committed to serving his Kentuckian constituents, “even though this last year has been frightening and hard.”
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At a historic summit between leaders Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-in, the neighbouring countries agreed they would work towards peace on the peninsula with a formal end to the conflict set to be announced later this year.
The pair agreed to bring the two countries together and establish a “peace zone” on the contested border.
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The war began in 1950 and most fighting came to an end with an armistice three years later. But peace was never officially declared and the two countries have been officially at war ever since.
At their first summit in more than a decade, the two sides announced they would seek an agreement to establish “permanent” and “solid” peace on the peninsula.
“The two leaders declare before our people of 80 million and the entire world there will be no more war on the Korean peninsula and a new age of peace has begun,” the official declaration said.
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The statement included promises to pursue military arms reduction, cease “hostile acts,” turn their fortified border into a “peace zone,” and seek multilateral talks with other countries, such as the United States.
North Korean leader Mr Kim and South Korean President Moon announced after their summit on Friday that the Koreas would push for three-way talks including Washington or four-way talks that also include Beijing on converting the armistice into a peace treaty and establishing permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula.
The Koreas said they hope the parties will be able to declare an official end to the war by the end of this year. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in to visit Pyongyang sometime this autumn, though it is not clear whether that event will include the official end of the war.
While President Donald Trump has given his “blessing” for the Koreas to discuss an end to the war, there can be no real solution without the involvement of Washington and other parties that fought in the war because South Korea wasn’t a direct signatory to the armistice that stopped the fighting.
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