E Pluribus Bang ( In Guns We Trust )

Ah a subject very near & dear to me. I love guns, I love the history, the great men associated with firearms design, Iconic names like Gatling, Maxim, Colt, Stoner, Thompson and saving the best for last Browning. John Moses Browning designed some of the greatest guns ever made, The .50 Browning Machine gun a.k.a the Ma Deuce, The Browning Automatic Rifle which was loved by US Troops in WWII and gangsters in the years before the war. And the best handgun EVER made, the 1911 .45 cal. pistol. Now a hundred yrs old and still the same basic design, a few more bells & whistles but the 1911 I carry is no different than the one Browning designed in 1906. Everything about firearms has fascinated me since my youth. Now a days kids cant even play with a cap gun unless it's bright pink, shoots rainbows and has a picture of a fuzzy bunny or some crap on it. This is a big part of the wimpifacation ( yes its a word because I say it is ) of the USA.

Gun Culture
You may ask how this could possibly be on the subject of the 2nd Revolution in which we are currently fighting, well it's simple, Guns are a HUGE part of this nations heritage, it's a part the leftist are out to steal from you. How many of you grew up watching movies where the hero
gunned down the bad guy and saved the day? All of us did. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Jimmy Stewart made some of the greatest westerns ever made. They chose to fight when it was the only option, they carried guns for defense of themselves and the general populous, defenders of the faith. The Lone Ranger, Brett Maverick, Roy Rogers all on TV every weekend, righting the wrongs and punishing evil, all with their trusty revolvers. One of the best westerns ever made is Quigley Down Under starring Tom Seleck, who by the way is a great friend of the 2nd admendment. There have been other action stars, Bruce Willis, Arnie, Mel Gibson in recent years, but most were just in it for the money, their policital views usually go against the characters they play, on screen they are rough & tough cops, shooting up the town and saving the day , while off screen they speak out against your 2A rights. All about the money.

Media Propaganda
In these topsy turvy times we are in now the gun has been vilified by the mainstream media. The gun, a simple object devoid of life, it has no soul or conscious, it is only a tool. The true evil is in the heart of the user. Yet every news report you here is about the gun. the MSM also plays the nomenclature game. A few years back there was a shooting at a high school basketball game here in K.C., the weapons used were very small caliber handguns, one a .32 acp pistol. These weapons are deadly for sure but, they are small, very limited range and very limited power, yet the news report on TV called these "Assault Weapons" which instantly puts the image of AK47's or M16's into the minds of the viewers. This is done clearly to demonize these weapons, then when congress or a president drags out some bill banning "assault weapons", the public jumps on board. As a whole the general public is ignorant to firearms. Terms like machine gun, assault rifle
automatic pistol are used by the media to play on this ignorance and scare people. I'm not saying the public is stupid, ignorant means they have not been properly instructed on firearms, the use of, the terminology etc.. This is a huge problem that did not exist in the past, the "Gun Culture" as the MSM calls it WAS the culture of a nation not so long ago, and it needs to be again.

How things change
In the colonial days, before America was America, puritan men were required to bring their
firearms with them everywhere...even church, twice a week. These laws stayed in affect in some places into the post civil war era. If a man was found to not have his musket, sufficient powder, ball or wad....a fine was imposed. In the earliest days of America, all households were required to keep a firearm, and to respond to an invasion and defend the homeland. Now a days the govt.
wants the citizens to be completely unarmed. Sure things are different now, we have a standing army, we have police forces and national guard......are any of these defense forces in your home every night? Are they in the car with you every minute of the day? Are they in the mall at every turn to defend you from harm? NO NO NO NO NO! This is why we as Americans cling to the 2nd Amendment. It was a right the forefathers knew was important no matter how the country changed. Every American has the right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, well there are bad people in the world who wish to take my life and liberty....they way to stop them is with the privately owned firearm.

Those who fail to learn from History...Are Doomed to Repeat It
Never have truer words been spoken. An Armed man is a citizen...an Unarmed man is a subject. Our forefathers knew this, and our govt. knows it now. Lets take a look at gun control thru 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.

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

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

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

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

These are just a few examples of what happens when the Govt. strips a god given right of self defense from the people. When you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. You need only look at the present, Australia and the U.K, crime is off the chart after those countries put into place outright bans on citizens owning any firearms. The British police now carry guns, for the first time since the early 1800's. Citizens basically cocoon in their homes at night, afraid to even peer out the door. A glimpse of your neighborhood in just a few short years.

Of Sheepdogs, Sheeple and Wolves
I was asked once why I carry a gun, which I do every day...legally of course thanks to the Kansas Family Protection Act, I responded to the question with the answer, " Because a cop is too heavy". The police, god bless em', are spread too thin due to budget cuts and rising call rates, they just cant be everywhere but, my sidearm can. Hundreds of thousands, maybe even up to millions of Americans now legally open or conceal carry a firearm every day. They choose to take their own safety, and the safety of those around them into their own hands. They are sheepdogs in a sea of wolves. In my county alone there are 5000+ who carry on legal permits, That's 1 in 12 people have a gun on em in public, allot of people get uneasy with that thought, I get a slightly
safer sense. These are honest, law abiding citizens with the training the law requires, they know the rules of if and when they should draw or fire their weapons. There are mad men walking the streets of your town right now, they maybe terrorist, they maybe thugs, they maybe rapist or pedophiles looking to nab your kid, no matter what they are, they ARE out there and they are banking on the fact that you are unarmed and unable to stop them.

Armed society is polite society
That's what they....and it's true! In the old west, and the 1800's in general, citizens walked freely with sidearm and rifle in plain view, everyone knew ya had a gun and that ya probably knew how to use it. Only a fool would attempt to rob ya or try to harm your family. Were there still fools that tried, sure...and most paid dearly. The gunfights at noon in the street are myths
dreamed up by movie producers and early authors. It makes for great reading but, it never happened. there are only 2 known actual gunfights of historical fact where the two sides squared
off against each other, one is the famous OK Coral, the other happening in New Mexico. When the legal carrying of guns crept back into America in the late 1980's, the public pissed their pants, loud arguments about high noon show downs and people carrying machine guns into football games were heard from coast to coast. Well to date....only 1 crime has been committed by someone holding a carry permit, and this was a case where the sheriff had given a permit to a man with a history of mental illness and should have never gotten the permit. That's hundreds of thousands of legal guns on the hips of citizens every day...yet no show downs, no crimes, yet the media refuses to report on the thousands of crimes STOPPED by citizens who carry every year. Go to Youtube and search for yourself....there are hundreds of stories that do get reported, and for every one that does get reported, there are another hundred that don't. In the
early 1990's car jacking of tourist in Florida was a national story....everyday some poor family was getting jacked, some people were killed. Florida instituted a CCW law and even allowed tourist to carry while in the state, the jacking stop almost instantly. The thugs knew they stood a good chance of taking a bullet, and as most criminals are cowards who pick their targets based on probability of victory, they stopped jacking and went back to their pathetic lives of shoplifting
and chain snatching. Florida is proof that armed society is polite society.

The Time is Now
We are at a pivotal point. Our gun rights have came under fire before, with the failed Clinton
Assault Weps Ban. This ban did not reduce crime or shootings at all, ATF and FBI stats. say the the ban reduced crime by a whopping %.08. Wow...was it worth the millions of dollars in govt. legal fee's from the court cases? Was it worth putting small gun shops out of business? Nope, in fact it wasn't even a real ban, it was all about the cosmetics of the rifle. You could still own an AK47, just not one with a pistol grip and flash hider...oh you could you have one or the other but not both. the ban did NOTHING to change the function or availability of the rifles. Clinton was an idiot. Bush let the ban sunset during his presidency and things got better with our 2A rights, The Heller case finally got a straight answer out of the supreme court, SCOTUS ruled that the 2A IS an Individual Right. Now with Obama in the White House, and his new appointee to the SCOTUS, our rights are more in danger than ever. With a commie and true socialist Czars running the administration, it's only a matter of time before an all out ban on firearms is coming.

In Closing
If you own a gun, great, buy another! If ya don't own a gun, buy one! If you shoot, take a friend or loved one who doesn't, teach em, teach em the history, teach em the why of the gun.
Teach em to defend themselves. Since the election results came in and the days since the inauguration...gun sales are thru the roof. Even people who swore they would NEVER own firearms are now buying them in droves. Allot of bad things loom on the horizon, terror threats,
loss of basic services, riots, civil unrest, natural disaster are just a few of the reasons to be prepared. Water food medical supplies blankets batteries tools etc etc etc.....all great things to store....they mean nothing with no way to defend them.

Good Day and God Bless America