"Live free or die. Death is not the greatest of evils." —Gen. John Stark July 31st 1809Smith writes about the grit American gun owners will need in the coming weeks and months, perhaps years, if we are to stand up to the gun grabbers in Congress, the Administration, and around us every day. We are a minority, make no mistake about it. While the United States has more guns in the hands of civilians than any other country in the world, there are still "only" 80 or so million of us out of an estimated 325 million.
Americans may mouth the words, but when push comes to shove, too many either really don't care or they are cowards deep down, who will allow the status quo to carry on, no matter how sorry a state of affairs has grown around it; or, their own ignorance is so deep that the God Given nature of our individual rights is beyond their grasp and understanding, and those words in the mouths of the timid, the weak and unsure become mere noises like the squeaking of a mouse eking out an advertising catch-phrase. Their words are empty and void of any sense of duty and obligation to themselves, their families and their country and what one must do to actually maintain a free society.
Today, in astounding fashion, we see a majority of the Democrats and even quite a large number of Republicans bowing to their feelings and the communists and statists withinthe House and the Senate, as the whine over the scourge of "gun violence" reaches a fever pitch. These gun-grabbers personify firearms, as if these inanimate firearms are chaotically running about America slaughtering innocent citizens. And we now hear many Democrats and television network host and pundits asserting "assault weapons ownership is not synonymous with gun ownership."I am one who believes that dead is dead. One is not more "alive" because one has been killed by a hammer blow, or with fists and feet. And it is little consolation to those left behind that one is killed in a car crash. I know people who lost sons and daughters to car crashes, and they are inconsolable 20 years later. The term "gun violence" is a made up term to allow the speaker or writer to focus on guns, as if they were the sole cause of unnatural death. They are not. And each death, whether natural or not, is a tragedy of immense measure. But guns are the most effective means of self defense. That is why police officers carry them. You should too.
Smith is also astounded to see that so many people, both Democrats and Republicans are falling for the myth that somehow they and their loved ones will be safer if guns are taken away from the law abiding. Frankly, I think, perhaps wishfully, that the poll is one of those designed to come up with a particular answer. Surely these numbers of people can not be so ignorant and thoughtless. The Second Amendment absolutely prevents the government from infringing on the rights of Americans to keep and bear arms useful in defense of self, family, and the nation. In today's world, those kinds of arms include. but are not limited to semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and pistols. The reason why is because the Second Amendment protects the other nine, which guarantee our liberty.
Our right to keep and bear arms shouldn't even be up for debate, that time having long passed. No deluge of facts and statistics will change the minds of the Democratic communists and their radical brown shirts, since their true desire is to render the law abiding Americans defenseless and unable to defend our families, our property, our communities and ourselves and stand in the breach in defiance of their numerous depradations and treason, while they reduce everything and everyone to the common denominator of poverty and misery and nothing more than serfs, who are forced to surrender to their socialist super-state, the Leviathan. These radicals absolutely will try to take our weapons.
Noted in the Berkshire Eagle: Thirty-two years after the Battle of Bennington [August 16th 1777], in a letter to Veterans of the War for Independence, General Stark wrote: "They were men who had not learned the art of submission, nor had they been trained to the art of war. But our astonishing success taught the enemies of liberty that undisciplined freemen are superior to veteran slaves".I would also point to further down in Stark's letter where he speaks of foreign influences:
In case of my not being able to attend, you wish my sentiments, — them you shall have as free as the air we breathe. As I was then, I am now — The friend of the equal rights of men, of representative Democracy, of Republicanism, and the Declaration of Independence, the great charter of our National rights: — and of course the friend of the indissoluble union and constitution of the States. I am the enemy of all foreign influence, for all foreign influence is the influence of tyranny. This is the only chosen spot of Liberty, — this is the only Republic on earth.Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and all other collective political theories including Islam are foreign to the United States. They are all, to one degree or another tyrannies that will render free men and citizens mere serfs. Tyrants always want to disarm their citizens because then they can impose any policy upon them, and they will not be able to fight back.
The absence of a Second Amendment does not negate the rights of people to arms. Thus, Australia, and more recently New Zealand were wrong to place mandatory so called "buy backs" of weapons in place. And we can see that England, far from having less violent crime, has more now that the average law abiding citizen can not defend himself. The Second Amendment is merely a guarantee that the right will not be infringed; it does not grant the right, which is pre-existent. Our rights, indeed, the rights of all men, come from Our Creator.
Many expect that if the Democrats take power, that they will be confronted with door to door confiscations, rather in the fashion of "Beto" O'Rourke. O'Rourke is clown. But red flag laws are a more subtle form of confiscation. Someone makes a complaint anonymously to the courts. The courts then hold an ex parte hearing in which they find, surprise, that you should not have guns. No effort is made to determine whether anything in the complaint is truthful. And, of course, the Democrats have already determined that gangbangers won't be red flagged. (Didn't I tell you it would be like this?) The whole idea is to confiscate the guns of the law abiding, one by one so they don't raise any alarm, but slowly they will get them all. In the process, gun owners will be smeared, and it will all be nice'n legal like. You betcha.
Begin preparing if you have not already. And remember General Stark's words: "Live free or die. Death is not the greatest of evils."
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