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Wisdom From RONALD REAGAN
Author: Mark Shean
{” We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the law breaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions”}. Ronald Reagan
Note; Soon Obama will blame crime in Mexico on our Second Amendment rights, as a scheme to disarm only the law abiding citizen, pay attention.
M. Shean www.mafirearmsafety.com submitted 4-29-2009
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{” Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty”}. JFK
Note; One of the last Democrats in office I ever respected.
M. Shean, author of GUN SENSE on Amazon
submitted 4-29-2009
{“We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution”}..
Note; A vote for term limits if I ever heard one.
M. Shean www.mafirearmsafety.com submitted 4-29-2009
{” Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”}
Note; Obama will be asking for Americans to do just that soon, reject the notion under any pretense.
M. Shean www.mafirearmsafety.com submitted 4-28-2009
{“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.–
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpation’s, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security“.}
NOTE; definitions, (Hath: archaic form of have). (Usurpation’s: wrongful seizures). (Evinces: openly displays). (Unalienable: alternate spelling for inalienable, incapable of being surrendered or transferred). (Despotism: rule by unlimited and oppressive power). (Tyranny: abusive exercise of unrestrained power).
In this excerpt are real fighting words from our Founding Fathers. M. Shean
www.mafirearmsafety.com submitted 4-28-2009
This is part of George Washington’s address to the second session of the First U.S. Congress:
{“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon and citizen’s firearms are indelibly related. From the hour the pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that, to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this land knows firearms, and more than 99 and 99/100 percent of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil influence. They deserve a place of honor with all that’s good. When firearms go, all goes. We need them every hour.”}
NOTE; Leadership under fire, battle after battle, perseverance through seemingly insermountable odds, the knowledge that if he lost he would be hung along with every signer of the Declaration of Independance. He knew, had it not been for armed citizens flocking to the banner of freedom, independance would never have been realized.
Exactly what is it that empty suits, loosely called ‘representatives’ misunderstand about American freedom? Not only the right, but the reason to keep and bear arms? Maybe they do not like to read, stimulas bills or anything else. They should be made to recite these words of George Washington on the floor of the House! They are as relevant today as the day he spoke them.
M. Shean www.mafirearmsafety.com submitted 4-24-2009
“The power of the sword, say the minority of Pennsylvania, is in the hands of Congress.
My friends, it is not so, for the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from 16 to 60. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible.
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people” Tench Coxe-
Note; I find that everything I read from the Founding Fathers, that their meaning of ‘militia’ and ‘people’ is irrefutably synonymous.
M. Shean www.mafirearmsafety.com
{“Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”} Richard Henry Lee
NOTE; There is that word “people” again, I am not confused about the Founding Fathers meaning. Why are today’s ‘enlightened politicians’ confused?
M. Shean www.mafirearmsafety.com
{“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 of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops”} Noah Webster
Note; There is that pesky word “people” again.
M. Shean www.mafirearmsafety.com
{” The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”} Thomas Jefferson also wrote in an early draft of the Virginia constitution: {“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms in his own lands”} Thomas Jefferson
Note; He was specific about the right of the “people” would’nt you say?
M.Shean www.mafirearmsafety.com