Kevin Duffy on national defense

The best, most efficient defense is a strong economy (i.e., must be free and open) and commercial ties (interconnectedness, your neighbors have too much to lose by going to war with you).  Neutrality is also important to avoid entangling alliances.  High gun ownership levels provide a second line of defense.  This is basic Founding Fathers stuff. 

The U.S. also has the enviable position of friendly neighbors to the north and south and oceans to the east and west.  This is probably the most defendable place on earth.  There is no way the U.S. needs to spend 3.5% of GDP on its military, i.e. 40% of the world total with 4% of the world's population. 

The military industrial complex is a problem.  They are not exactly an impartial assessor of global threats.  They're a protection racket that constantly needs to justify their own existence.  Like all government entities, they want to grow.  They can't be trusted and they're constantly creating external enemies and making us less secure.

~ Kevin Duffy, April 20, 2025

Thomas Jefferson on gun control

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

~ Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776 

(Dan Ferris' quote of the week on the Stansberry Investor Hour podcast, 9:30 mark, June 17, 2021)

Thomas Jefferson
1993

Kevin Duffy on trusting authorities

If we want our country back, people are going to have to stop trusting the authorities - government officials, the media, so-called medical "experts." Your best defense is to develop critical thinking. Your last defense is to own a gun.

~ Kevin Duffy, Facebook post, June 4, 2020