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Excerpt from Nation of Cowards
By Jeff Snyder
If you believe it reprehensible to
possess the means and will to use lethal force to repel a criminal assault, how
can you call upon another to do so for you?
A weapon that really sends shivers down a rapist's
spine, the portable cellular phone.
Law enforcement continues to advise not to resist an
attacker, give him what he wants. Crime is rampant because the law abiding
condones, encourages, permits and submits to it because we do not fight back
immediately when it happens. Crime is rampant because the defect is in our
character.
One who values his life takes his responsibilities and
to his family to possess the means of fighting back and not be content to rely
solely on others for his safety.
We must carry arms because we value our lives and do
not live at the pleasure of the lawless. Criminals have no respect for our lives
when we ourselves do not value our lives enough to assume the responsibility to
defend them.
To own a firearm is to affirm that freedom and liberty
are not gifts from the state.
Implicit in calls for the repeal of the Second
Amendment is the assumption that our First Amendment rights are sufficient to
preserve our liberty.
One who believes it wrong to arm himself against
criminal violence shows contempt of God's gift of life and does not properly
value himself or live up to his responsibilities to his family and becomes an
accomplice of violent criminal acts by others.
Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the
government is the master, not the servant, of the people.
"You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead
hands." While liberals take this statement as evidence that gun owners are
violent in nature we hope that liberals hold equally strong sentiments about
their printing presses, word processors and television.
We are often warned about taking the law into our own
hands but we live under a government of laws. We all take the law into our own
hands, we all act in accordance with and carry out the law. The police are not
the law, and we are not the law... so , what's the basis for the privileged
status of the police? Why are we told that we cannot do things that they can?
A people who will renounce the responsibility to defend their own lives-arguably the most fundamental of all responsibilities- and the right to possess and use the means necessary to fulfill that responsibility, have by that very act declared and proved themselves to be irresponsible, fundamentally irresponsible, and thereby justify their treatment by the government as suspect, as people whose worthiness and qualification for rights and privileges must be tested and assured before granted by government.
If a people will renounce, and cede to their government the very responsibility to protect their own lives, and by extension, those of their loved ones, and the right to own and use the means necessary to fulfill that obligation, then there is nothing, nothing, that they will not cede to the government.
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