Category: 2nd Amendment

I don’t carry a gun to kill people; I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to be macho; I carry a gun not to be so.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil; I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see that evil in the World exist.

I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government; I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government, the tyranny and repression it can represent.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry; I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone; I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man; I carry a gun because I know how to take care of my self and the ones I love.

I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate; I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don’t carry a gun because I love it; I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me. Police “To Protect and Serve” is an oxymoron: Free citizens must protect themselves because city, county, state and federal law enforcement do not protect you from crime; they just investigate the crime after it happens, then call someone in to clean up the mess. 

Personally, 

I carry a gun because I’m too young to die. 

I carry a gun, and in my prayers, that I never am required to use it.  

I carry a gun because not having one is when I will need it.

I carry a gun because it is my God Given Right to be a free human being. 

I carry a gun because I am responsible and accountable for my actions.

I carry a gun in case my family, myself, a citizen’s harm can be avoided.

A LITTLE GUN HISTORY PLEASE DON’T THINK FOR A MOMENT, THAT THIS COULDN’T HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY ALSO  !!!!!!

  In  1929, the Soviet Union established gun control: From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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  In 1911, Turkey established gun control: From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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  Germany established gun control in 1938:From 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

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  China established gun control in 1935: From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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  Guatemala established gun control in 1964: From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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  Uganda established gun control in 1970:From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Cambodia established gun control in 1956: From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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56 million defenseless people were rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control.

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England & Australia instituted gun control. Home invasion, armed robbery, muggings and crime in general skyrocketed. 

Gun control affects the law-abiding citizen. With guns, we are ‘citizens’; without them, we are ‘subjects’. During WW II, the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!

Gun owners in the USA are the largest armed forces in the World!  If you value your freedom.

Drugs and guns, there is a connection folks!!!!!!!

Interesting Facts About Gun Control:

There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed.   U.S. population 324,059,091 as of Wednesday, June 22, 2016. 

Do the math:   0.000000925% of the population die from gun related actions each year.   Statistically speaking, this is insignificant!

What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:

•    65% of those deaths are by suicide which would never be prevented by gun laws

•    15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified

•    17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – gun violence

•    3% are accidental discharge deaths

So technically, “gun violence” is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100.  Still too many?  Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across the nation?

•    480 homicides (9.4%)  were in Chicago

•    344 homicides (6.7%)  were in Baltimore

•    333 homicides (6.5%)  were in Detroit

•    119 homicides (2.3%)  were in Washington D.C.  (a 54% increase over prior years)

So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities.   All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.

This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation  –  or about 75 deaths per state.  That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others.

For example, California had 1,169  – and Alabama had 1.

Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far?   California, of course, but understand, so it is not guns causing this.  It is a crime rate spawned by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and states.   So if all cities and states are not created equally, then there must be something other than the tool causing the gun deaths.

Are 5,100 deaths per year horrific?   How about in comparison to other deaths?  All death is sad and especially so when it is in the commission of a crime but that is the nature of crime.  Robbery, death, rape, assault – all are done by criminals and thinking that criminals will obey laws is ludicrous.  That’s why they are criminals.

But what about other deaths each year?

•  40,000+ die from a drug overdose – THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THAT!

•  36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the criminal gun deaths

•  34,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities (exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide) 

Now it gets good:

•  200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from preventable medical errors.    You are safer in Chicago than when you are in a hospital!

•  710,000 people die per year from heart disease.   It’s time to stop the double cheeseburgers! 

So what is the point?   If Obama and the anti-gun movement focused their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.).   A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides  ……  Simple, easily preventable 10% reductions!

So you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things, why the focus on guns?   It’s pretty simple.  Taking away guns gives control to governments.

The founders of this nation knew that regardless of the form of government, those in power may become corrupt and seek to rule as the British did by trying to disarm the populace of the colonies.    It is not difficult to understand that a disarmed populace is a controlled populace.

Thus, the second amendment was proudly and boldly included in the U.S. Constitution.   It must be preserved at all costs. 

So the next time someone tries to tell you that gun control is about saving lives, look at these facts and remember these words from Noah Webster:  “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.   The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.    A military force at the command of Congress can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power.” 

Remember, when it comes to “gun control”, the important word is “control”, not “gun”. 

Surprisingly, these are not the statistics you hear about from the media or from the White House………..ever wonder why??

Seriously.  Conservatives own 270+ million guns and 12 trillion rounds of ammunition.  If we were violent, you’d know it.