Art: Brad Walker
When in the course of American events, it becomes necessary for an electorate to decline to reelect a president who has failed in his civic responsibilities small and great, and thereby to peaceably reassume the vital liberties to which the laws of nature entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the political separation.
We still hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The history of the present president of the United States—Joe Biden—is a history of repeated animosity toward such rights, having in particular object the infringement or outright abolition of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
• He has ignored the will of the people, seeking to impose his designs upon them through executive orders and legislative actions, thereby circumventing the constitutional processes of governance.
• He has boasted of having "taken more executive actions" to restrict the Second Amendment "than any other president during their first year in office," and of having issued "dozens of executive actions … more than any of [his] predecessors at this point in their presidencies."
• He has been chastised repeatedly by the nation's courts for his illegal attempts to change the definition of the term "firearm" and the laws governing pistol braces in ways that the U.S. Code patently does not permit. .....