Allen West: Why America has the Second Amendment

It is very disconcerting to me when I see Marxist leftists who have a poor level of reading comprehension. The simplistic words of the Second Amendment of our individual Bill of Rights should not be cause for confusion. Just as a historical reminder, especially as we approach our 250th Independence celebration, the Second Amendment is rooted in the events of 19 April 1775. 

It was on that day that 77 Americans stood on a field in Lexington, Massachusetts, against the greatest military power the world knew at that time. The British regiment was marching inland towards Concord to destroy a weapons manufacturing facility that was supplying the Sons of Liberty. On that day, there was no American Army, Navy, or Marine Corps; matter of fact, there was no America. However, there was an understanding that armed individuals could be free citizens who attain liberty; disarmed individuals can only be subjects.

The militia is every American, not the military. Well-regulated means well-trained, disciplined, and the duty of this well-trained group of citizens is the security of a free State. And what part of “shall not be infringed” is hard to comprehend? Isn’t it rather ironic that the State where armed Americans made a stand against the tyranny of gun control, the beginning of our American Revolution, is now home to the most stringent gun control laws?

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Allen West, November 18, 2025

Just for the record, my parents were registered Democrats, and John Lewis was my Congressional representative growing up. However, my parents raised me with principles and values that are antithetical to the collection of delusional, deranged leftists who now own the political party once known as Democratic. This party has not just fully lurched to the Marxist left, but it is a party of mean girls and petulant, weak boys. It is a political party that is disintegrating into a toxic gas, which seemingly distorts one’s once functional brain and turns it into some jelly-like substance. It is a political gang more than anything else that seeks to punish and harm anyone who stands in its way..  

Shutdown Tantrums 

Let’s take, for example, the almost 45 days of leftists shutting down the federal government, and for what purpose? The insidious narrative was as far-ranging as the Alaskan frontier and as dry as the Sahara. First, it was about restoring Medicaid benefits. But to whom? It turns out that it was for illegal immigrants. Secondly, it became about restoring the $1.7T of government spending that was cut by the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Act, signed into law by President Trump. Yes, the party of mean girls and weak boys wanted to refund NPR and were willing to not pay our military troops. Lastly, and most incompetent, the reason became the furthering of Covid-era Obamacare subsidies, ya know, the Affordable Care Act, which is certainly not affordable. Even the epitome of a weak, petulant leftist boy, Hakeem Jeffries, tried to make the case that this was about solving the Republican healthcare crisis. You do know that Sir Winston Churchill asserted that socialism is the “creed of ignorance.”  

Allen West: A Rendezvous with Destiny

The title of this missive comes from the motto of the 101st Airborne Division, the famed “Screaming Eagles.” The motto comes from a speech given on August 16, 1942, as the 101st Airborne Division was activated at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. Its first Commanding General, Major General William C. Lee, noted that the Division had no history, but that it had a “rendezvous with destiny.” The General also said that the new Division would habitually be called into action when the need was “immediate and extreme” and that it would fall on its enemies like a thunderbolt from the skies.