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A Diabolic Gun Control StrategyBy Chuck BaldwinMay 4, 2023(To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.)My good friend Michael Hoffman recently wrote an outstanding thesis on the subject of the growing efforts of Democrats (and some Republicans) to push the anti-Second Amendment envelope as far as possible. I borrowed the title of Michael’s thesis for the title of this column.For instance, right now Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee is calling a special session of the legislature—probably convening in July—to take up a Red Flag gun confiscation bill. But Lee’s proposal goes further than any previous Red Flag law: It actually includes many prescription drugs that a person is taking as a cause to confiscate their guns.The proposed Tennessee Red Flag gun confiscation bill is a MONSTER!Here is a short list of some of the medical disorders that could disqualify a Tennessee citizen from exercising their right to keep and bear arms, depending on the medication they take:• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (which targets veterans, of course)• Anorexia• Premenstrual Syndrome• Eating Disorders• Nerve Pain• Male Sexual Problems• Insomnia• Postpartum Depression• Fibromyalgia• Hypochondria• Chronic Headaches• Attention Deficit Disorder• Sleep Disorders• Personality Disorders• ObesityUnder Governor Lee’s proposed gun confiscation bill, laws protecting medical privacy, such as HIPPA and others, would be suspended, and physicians or pharmacists would be required by law to report the use of medications used to treat the above disorders to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation—which could trigger the confiscation of the person’s firearms.I hope the people of Tennessee are paying attention, because if they don’t rise up en masse against this communist gun confiscation grab, the Second Amendment will die a methodical death of attrition in The Volunteer State. And that would force every other State in the country to have to deal with this monstrosity.And, of course, the State of Washington just passed a so-called Assault Weapons ban, as did the State of Illinois. (A federal judge has temporarily blocked the ban in The Prairie State.) And several other Democrat-controlled states are in the process of proposing similar gun bans.All of these communist gun confiscation proposals are doubtless destined to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court, where hopefully they will crash and burn.Now, to Hoffman’s awesome article:April 19 marks the 248th anniversary of the day on which 700 agents of the lawfully constituted government of Massachusetts approached the town of Lexington intent on seizing the guns of the area’s farmers. Eight farmers were gunned down on Lexington Green, after which the uniformed gun confiscators “came under attack by thousands of swarming” farmers organized as “the Minutemen,” a citizen militia armed with the same weapons as the government’s forces. On the day of “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World” in Massachusetts, these United States were founded.The battle of Lexington and Concord which marked the start of the civil war known as the American Revolution, is too often presented in books and lectures as between “foreign troops” and “Americans.” In order to disguise what was a police action by the royal governor acting on the order of the Commander in Chief (King George), the event is presented in terms of “foreign troops” invading New England, the equivalent in our day of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army landing in Seattle and disarming the local citizens.By framing Lexington and Concord as Americans vs. aliens, the role of the loyalist American government is overlooked, as is the fact that this was a police action by troops charged with enforcing the la