Why I carry a gun & a little history on gun control.

English: CZ-2075D Rami pistol (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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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 scare people; I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid; I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I'm evil; I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I hate the government; I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

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 men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they 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 protection is an oxymoron: Free citizens must protect themselves, because police do not protect you from crime, they just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

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

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You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.

With guns, we are 'citizens'; without them, we are 'subjects'.

SWITZERLAND ISSUES A GUN TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD!

SWITZERLAND'S GOVERNMENT ISSUES AND TRAINS EVERY ADULT IN THE USE OF A RIFLE.

SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!

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Freedom is NOT Free…

Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In my lifetime the United States has had many good presidents, a couple of great presidents, a couple of not so good presidents and one TERRIBLE president…

The following video is by one of the great presidents… Every American should view it and all of ISIS should cower.

This is a "Must Watch" video this weekend. In addition, you should do something in remembrance of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.  

Click here to view this great video. It’s only 3 ½ minutes long…

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Shores of Tripoli

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Here’s a pretty important bit of history

from our Nation’s early years,

and it’s directly applicable to what is happening
to us -  TODAY!
 

Americans are unaware of the fact

that over two hundred years ago,

the United States had declared war on Islam,

and Thomas Jefferson led  the charge!

At the height of the eighteenth century,
Muslim pirates were the terror of the
Mediterranean and a large area of the

North Atlantic.
              
               
They attacked every ship in sight,

and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms.

Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment

and wrote heart breaking letters home, begging

their government and family members to pay whatever

their Mohammedan captors demanded.
              
               
These extortionists of the high seas represented the Islamic nations of Tripoli,  Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers –
collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast –

and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat

to the new American Republic.
              
               
Before the Revolutionary War, U.S.merchant ships

had been  under the protection of Great Britain.

When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war,

the ships of the United States were protected by France.

However, once the war was won, America had to protect  its own fleets.
              
               
Thus, the birth of the U.S.Navy.Beginning in 1784,

seventeen years before he would become president,

Thomas Jefferson became America’s Minister to France.

That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its

Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States,

rather than engaging them in war.
              
               
In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships,

and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard ransom of $60,000.  It was a plain and simple case of extortion,

and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments. Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace.  A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.
              
               
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli’s
ambassador to Great Britain to ask bywhat right his nation
attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens,

and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America,

a nation with which they had no previouscontacts.
             
               
The two future  presidents reported that
Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered 

that Islam"was founded on the Laws of their Prophet,

that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners,

that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners,  and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."
              
               
Despite of this stunning admission of premeditated violence

on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, 

who warned that caving in was both wrong  and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years,

the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars

for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over twenty percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.
              
               
Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in

as the third President of the United States in 1801,

the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding

the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming.  That changed everything.
              
              
Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms,

what he could do with his demand.  The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate

and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit. Jefferson, until now,

had been against America  raising a naval force

for anything beyond coastal defense, but having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thugery for long enough,

decided that is was finally time to meet force with force.

              
He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean

and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson

he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S.ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli  and to “cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify.”

                              
When Algiers and Tunis,  who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the might to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli.

The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years,

and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line “to the shores of Tripoli”
in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as “leathernecks”  for the leather collars of their uniforms,

designed to prevent their heads from being cut off

by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships.
              
               
Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing
in the name of their prophet and their god,

disturbed Jefferson quite deeply.  America had a tradition of religious tolerance, the fact that Jefferson, himself,

had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom,

but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion

the world had ever seen. A religion based on supremacism,

whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers was unacceptable to him.  His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.
              
               
This should bother every American. That Muslims have brought about women-only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians,Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim 

defendants are being judged, Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities.  Ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah,  public schools are pulling pork from their menus, on and on in the newspapers….
              
               
It’s death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch  as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America. By not fighting back,

by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening,

and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our own culture,

the United States is cutting its own throat with a  politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists agenda. 

Sadly, it appears that today’s America would rather be politically correct  than victorious.
              
               
Any doubts,

just Google: Thomas Jefferson vs the Muslim World

I don't know who wrote this piece, but I found it to be very interesting. Not much has changed, has it?

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An Interesting Comparison...

Barack Obama addressing a joint session of Congress (State of the Union-like) on the night of February 24, 2009. Standing in front of Vice President Joe Biden (left) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (right). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Crash Position

The pilot was locked out of the cockpit. 

That phrase finally revealed the full horror of the crash of Germanwings flight 9525. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz waited for the pilot to leave the cockpit, then locked the door to prevent his re-entry. 

After which Lubitz, for reasons unknown and perhaps unknowable, deliberately steered the jet into a harrowing 8 minute plunge ending in an explosive 434 mph impact with a rocky mountainside. 150 men, women and children met an immediate, unthinkably violent death. 

Lubitz, in his single-minded madness, couldn't be stopped because anyone who could change the jet's disastrous course was locked out. 

It's hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that the passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed up to meet them. Hard - but not impossible. 

Because America is in trouble. We feel the descent in the pits of our stomachs. We hear the shake and rattle of structures stressed beyond their limits. We don't know where we're going anymore, but do know it isn't good. And above all, we feel helpless because Barack Obama has locked us out. 

He locked the American people out of his decision to seize the national healthcare system. Locked us out when we wanted to know why the IRS was attacking conservatives. He locked us out of having a say in his decision to tear up our immigration laws, and to give over a trillion dollars in benefits to those who broke those laws.

Obama locked out those who advised against premature troop withdrawals. He locked out the truth on Bengahzi.  Locked out the intelligence agencies who issued warnings about the growing threat of ISIS. He locked out anyone who could have interfered with his release of five Taliban terror chiefs in return for one U.S. military deserter.  He locked out Israel, our only real ally in the Middle East. 

And of course, Barack Obama has now locked out Congress, the American people, and our allies as he strikes a secret deal with Iran to determine the timeline (not prevention) of their acquisition of nuclear weapons. 

Was Andreas Lubitz depressed, insane, or abysmally evil when he decided to lock that cockpit door and listen to no voices other than those in his head? Did he somehow believe himself to be doing the right thing? 

The voice recordings from the doomed aircraft reveal that as the jet began its rapid descent, the passengers were quiet. There was probably some nervous laughter, confusion, a bit of comforting chatter with seatmates, followed by a brief period in which anxiety had not yet metastasized into terror. 

It was only near the end of the 8 minute plunge that everyone finally understood what was really happening. Only near the end when they began to scream. 

Like those passengers, a growing number of Americans feel a helpless dread as they come to the inescapable conclusion that our nation's decline is an act of choice rather than of chance. The choice of one man who is in full control of our 8 year plunge. 

A man who has locked everyone out.

 

- Author unknown

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