Who are the real "haters"?

We have some real dumb creatures in Congress, folks, and it is time we came to realize that they have been up there so long, they have completely lost touch with reality. Unfortunately, and embarrasingly, however, we have no-one to blame but OURSELVES! For some reason, we have become so stupid that we follow along with these morons leadership like lemmings following the lead lemming off the cliff to their deaths!

I am a conservative, Christian, heterosexual, pro-life, pro-religion, pro-gun male. That makes me, according to the U.S. Congress part of so many “hate” groups that I cannot count that high. Who defines a hate group, though? How do they know we hate anything? Facts be know, I do not hate anyone, even those crazy lunatics in Congress that call me a hater. I think down deep, many of them are probably decent people, except maybe Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, who I happen to believe are maniacal Hitler wanna-be's. But I do not even hate them; I pity them, but I absolute DISPISE their actions, per Jesus's instructions to “...love the sinner, hate the sin.”

Most Christians do not hate people, because Christians have a conscience; it is called the Holy Spirit that lives inside us. We believe the founders, who were almost to a man, God-fearing, God-loving Christians of varying denominations. We believe they understood that America's freedoms were due to blessings and protections from God, and not of our own works. We believe they understood that for America's freedoms to perpetuate and grow, that God's laws needed to be the foundations for the laws of the land, and that is why they wanted the Bible taught in public schools, why before almost every major decision was made regarding the content of the Constitution, the delegates prayed together and separately before the vote.

I believe that America was victorious in both World Wars because we understood and still held to the views of our founders, and we appealed as a nation to God for the protection and victories so that our freedoms could be ongoing, and we believe God answered those prayers. But since World War II, liberals, who believe the Constitution is an outdated, irrelevant document that needs to be rewritten to make it more relevant to today's world, have done the deal-level best to slowly and surely re-write history to make their visions of America come to pass; a nation where God is constrained to the inside of houses of worship and unwelcome anywhere else.

Liberals DO hate. They hate conservatives; they hate anyone and anything that does not think like they do, and that resists their efforts to change America. They hate democracy; they hate Christianity because it stands for everything they stand against. They hate pro-life people, and refuse to recognize that a fetus is a human, even though if no pro-active actions are taken, that fetus will be born alive and a human being. They believe if someone kills a woman who is pregnant, that the killer is guilty of two murders, but on the other hand, they think it is perfectly OK to commit partial birth abortions by sticking a pair of scissors into the brains of a partially born infant and scramble its brains to kill it, and they call that protecting a woman's right to privacy over her body. REALLY?

No, folks, the real “haters” are liberals. They hate anyone and anything that stands in their way of turning America into a socialist, agnostic, secular, utopian, nanny state. They hate the Constitution because the founders knew that eventually, power-crazy politicians would do everything they could to steal our God-given rights and turn them into rights given by the Government, which can then, at the Government's whelm, be taken away by that government. They hate guns, because guns are the only real protection that the American citizens have against a power-crazy bunch of politicians like we now have forcefully turning us into a nation of cowering pawns controlled by these power crazy politicians. They hate the founders because they know the founders knew what they were going to try to do sooner or later, and created the 2^nd Amendment to the Constitution to protect the citizens' rights to bear arms (any kind of Arms we feel like owning), so that if needed, the citizens could rise up against the Government and forcefully throw them out if they go too crazy!

Liberals hate the truth, and they hate facts.  Confronted with the facts that the ten-year ban on assault weapons started under the Clinton Administration did nothing, when these mass shooting happened, what did they do?  They climbed right back on that dead horse and now are advocating even stronger controls!  What a bunch of idiots!  There are so many analogies that could be made, but just to quote one, blaming guns for these mass shootings is like blaming the airplanes for the 9/11 attacks.  Both make about as much sense!  They are such ideologues that they refuse to acknowledge that virtually every demogogue government over the last century got its start by dearming the citizenry (Hitler, Stalin, Mousselini, Mao, North Korea, Cuba, just to name a few.  They refuse to acknowledge that every situation where the citizens have been disarmed, violent crime rates and the overall crime rates have risen.  It leave the citizens helpless against criminals who care less about the law and will get a gun by theft or by buying them on the black market.  GUN BANS are Unconstitutional, and THEY DO NOT WORK!  Liberals, get that through your thick skulls!

Did anyone blame the airplanes?  No?  Has anyone done anything to try and restrict airplane flights to stop things like this from happening?  No?  But they want to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, they want to restrict how much ammunition, how many rounds can go in a magazine on our weapons, and want to stop the manufacturers from manufacturing assault weapons or even weapons that are "ugly".  If we follow that analogy, then we probably need to make airplane manufacturers stop manufacturing airplanes bigger than a piper cub so they cannot bring down sky-scrapers.  They should suggest we ground all the airplanes that hold enough fuel to cause fires like those that brought down the World Trade Centers.

Their idea of "fixing" things is always to restrict American's rights.  They are ideologues that absolutely have no concept that it is not the tools that are evil, it is not the tool makers that are evil, it is people who use the tools that do bad things.  But can they admit that?  No, because then they would have to admit that their social experiments where they have removed morality, God, discipline, and punishment from the schools, prisons, government buildings and organizations has failed.  They would have to acknowledge that America is an undisciplined, immoral, agnostic, heathen nation, led by undisciplined, selfish, immoral, agnostic, heathen bunch of liberals and that is the reason you have such crazy, unthinkable situations like Newtown, Columbine, Aurora, and on and on and on is the list of unspeakable crimes committed by seriously ill, mentally ill individuals that were never disciplined because the "system" did not want to say that they were unfit for society.   So...the liberals in our government just look for other reasons and other actions that they can take which further their agenda, regardless of the truths that slap them in the face.  It frankly is time for a good house cleaning and a return to the path that the founders envisioned for America.

We are just about there, America. We have some people with a serious God-complex trying to take our guns, run rough-shod over our religious principles, and use fancy words and lies to try and convince us all that wrong is right, black is white, and good is evil, and sadly, a majority of us seem to be falling for it. Why would I say we are falling for it? Because about fifty two percent of the voters in this last election re-elected a man who had done absolutely nothing constructive in four years in office, had increased our debt by 50% in four years, squandered over a trillion dollars on ponzi schemes to reward contributors, backed union thugs in armed confrontation with law-abiding citizens trying to keep states from going bankrupt, cowed down to Muslims, prayed with Muslims but refused to lead the country on its recognized day of prayer, and purposely divided our nation, committed character assassination on one of America's finest families and business leaders, and refused to take any action which got four Americans killed in Bengazi, Lybia, then lied to the nation about who committed those crimes, and stone-walled Congress investigating how our ATF provided guns to Mexican drug cartels, which ended up being used to kill an American border guard.

Who are the haters? The Liberals, and a self-centered, greedy, self-gratifying bunch of gullible Americans were foolish enough to believe the garbage the man spit out and re-elect the lying piece of trash for four more years.

Do I sound like I hate? I confess, I do. But I do not hate people, just the ideas that they try to shove down the rest of our throats that go against everything that the Constitution, the faith of our founders, and the country's history stood for prior to 1947. I do NOT hate the President, I do not hate liberals. I absolutely detest their actions, however. I detest their lies, their manipulation of the facts, their judgmental ways of looking at God fearing Americans, and the way they lie and enslave millions of gullible people by giving them just enough to get buy on and destroying their self-esteem, their self-confidence, and their self-discipline. I DO hate their actions, I DO condemn their actions, and I DO NOT intend to become one of those idiots or victims that they bully or cow-down. I will fight them tooth and nail, toe-to-toe, face-to-face with the truth, and at the same time pray for their souls.

Open Letter & Caution to President Obama

Dear Mr. President,
I am more scared for my country now that I have ever been in my life, because I feel like my President is a treasonous, underhanded liar that is intentionally doing things that he believes will destroy the nation that has been the United States of America since 1776.
You come from somewhere, we cannot be sure of where, because every piece of supposed proof of your U.S. Birth, has been brought into serious question as to its authentisity.  You got grants to attend college where you claimed to be a foreign student from Kenya.  You attended Muslim schools, you pray with Muslims, but refuse to lead the nation in prayer on the National Day of Prayer.  But besides these, there are actions that you have taken that, if looked at with independent eyes, tell of a person who is intent on destroying the United States economically:
You have nearly doubled the entire debt of this nation from where it was after the first 236 years of our nation in only four years.  That caused our nation's credit rating to be lowered for the first time in its history.  Your proposed budgets would push our debt up another twenty-five percent in the next four years, putting us in the same category as near-bankrupt nations like Greece, France, and Italy.  Your healthcare plan is going to push American's healthcare into another government-controlled, single-source healthcare system similar to what England, France, Greece, and other European Community nations now have, which statistics prove is a sub-standard healthcare system by any measure as compared to what America has.  An now, you make the dumbest statement I have ever heard when you state that America does NOT have a spending problem.  Really?  You confirmed your stupidity when you made the staement, and telegraph your intentions to keep spending borrowing forty cents of every dollar you spend, driving the nation into bankruptsy.
Now, you are attempting to institute some type of gun-control, your first-step in what everyone with half-a-brain knows will lead eventually to some type of gun seizure plan.  Now you are saying that you will bypass Congress and use an executive order to raise the debt ceiling by relying on a sentence or two in the 14th Amendment to our Constitution, which, under the broadest of interpretations could NEVER have been interpreted giving you the right to by-pass Congress (except by liberals like you who just interpret it any fashion that supports your liberal agenda).
It is obvious from previous comments by you and other liberals that you think the Constitution is antiquated and needs to be "re-interpreted according to today's societial standards.  WRONG!  You do not have that right.  The founders instituted inside the Constitution what the process was to change the Constitution.  You are attempting sedition, and that is dispicable.  It is my firm belief that your intent is to destroy the Constitution, destroy this nation, then re-shape it according to your Socialist, liberal agenda.
Mr. President, that would be a very grave mistake for many reasons:

1. The soldiers of this nation take an oath of office to defend that Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.  They do not take an oath of office to defend traitors or individuals trying to destroy the Constitution.  It is my absolute belief, as a retired veteran of two military campaigns, (Vietnam and Desert Storm), that I, my fellow retirees, and most of the active-duty soldiers of today would view your actions as treasonous and an attempt to overthrow the Constitution and establish a dictatorship should you make such an attempt.  Frankly, Mr. President, most of us do not like you.  We think you are a coward, anti-American in your root beliefs, and a coward.  We believe you sacrifice four brave Americans at Bengazi just so you could win an election by sustaining the lie that Al Qaeda is no longer a power.  I and my fellow soldiers believe you betrayed us and sacrificed those men for your political power play.
2. There are approximately three hundred million guns in this nation, owned by law-abiding citizens.  Your announced intentions to institute some type of gun control are uniting us more than you will every understand.  Do you really think that you can convince us to give up anything to an administration like yours, one that we do not trust as far as we could throw an M-1 Abrahams tank?  If you really believe that, Mr. President, you are a damn fool.  Nothing would unite us more than if you tried that, and I sincerely think, Mr. President, that your actions would end up in an armed insurrection that would overthrow your government.  After all, Mr. President, ninety percent of us believe Congress is inept and unable to accomplish anything.  Most of us believe that you are a liar, a closet-Muslim, and a socialist with the intention of destroying this nation.  Actions like trying to sieze guns or restrict our ability to get the guns we want would only solidify that image and our resistance to you.
3. If push came to shove, Mr. President, I believe our military would not be willing to fire on its own people who are doing nothing to instigate a conflict, and are only attempting to do what the Constitution says we are entitled to do.  As many of the military that cannot stand you, you would have a mexican stand-off of gargantuian proportions, and you would lose, because EVERY legitimate gun owner in the nation would be against you, and like me, many of them would be willing to fight any attempt to sieze our guns to the death.

So there you have it, Mr. President.  You do not undersand it, but you are in a no-win situation.  No matter what you decide, you lose.  Your choice is to lose peacefully and live within the intent of the founders as they wrote this Constitution, or possibly die by attempting to destroy it or circumvent it and forcing several hundred million gun-owners to take a stand against you, one that there is no way you can win.

Your choice, Mr. President.  I just hope you are not that stupid.

The Federal Government is after your guns! Be certain of it!

 America is in a very dangerous frame of mind right now.  We are all sad about the killings of the 20 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticutt. We want to find a way to keep tragedies like that from happening.  In the rush to try and stop those senseless acts of violence from reoccurring, we are opening ourselves up to letting politicians who are really only concerned with one thing...securing their power positions in government, by strengthening government's control over our lives and weakening the citizen's powers to force Government into a weaker, less controlling role in our lives. 

The ideal of controlling guns is as old as leaders realizing that if the people they are trying to control do not have weapons at all or weapons that are inferior in quality and quantity as the government has, that they can control the people.  That is how Hitler did it, how Tojo did it, and innumerable other leaders in this world's history.  It is a proven fact throughout history that when the citizens private weapons were confiscated, the governments eventually became despotic and abusive governments. 
There is a misconception among the citizenry that our founders put the Second Amendment to the Constitution in place in order to give the citizens the ability to protect themselves from criminals, foreign enemies, hostile indians, and wild animals.  While these are true statements, that is not the main reason that the Amendment was put in place; and the actual motivation for that Amendment being put in place is exactly what America is facing right now.  Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and many of the other founders had, from their experiences witnessed what happened to an unarmed citizenry in Europe.  They knew that the natural tendency of big government was to gradually and with absolute certainty, was to take away the citizens' freedoms and replace them with more autocratic, authoritarian, and evil forms of government.  Our founders knew that the real reason the citizenry needed to be armed was to protect itself against a government stealing their freedoms and enslaving them under abusive, evil forms of government.  Here is what many of them had to say about the need for the citizens to protect themselves against the Government:

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." 

- Samuel Adams 

”The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.”
~Thomas Jefferson

”Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.”
~Benjamin Franklin


"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788

"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrence's and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
George Washington First President of the United States

"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
Thomas Paine

"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 American Statesman, 1788

"The great object is that every man be armed." and "Everyone who is able may have a gun."
Patrick Henry American Patriot

"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States 

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that … it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; … "
Thomas Jefferson letter to Justice John Cartwright, June 5, 1824. ME 16:45.

"The best we can help for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
Alexander Hamilton The Federalist Papers at 184-8

"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria) 

"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense."
- John Adams

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
- Patrick Henry

"I hope, therefore, a bill of rights will be formed to guard the people against the Federal government as they are already guarded against their State governments, in most instances." Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."Thomas Jefferson

 "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
Thomas Jefferson  Letter to George Washington, 1796

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President.  Source: Eighth Annual Message, November 8, 1808

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army.  To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
Thomas Jefferson 1803

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.  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 (attributed without source)

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.  Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."Thomas Jefferson's advice to his 15 year-old nephew Peter Carr 1785

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure."

Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787; “The Works of Thomas Jefferson,” Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5) Vol. 5

"The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."

Samuel Adams of Massachusetts -- U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788

"A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression."
James Madison  (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government."

Alexander Hamilton Federalist #28

"A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies."
George Washington First Annual Message to Congress  January 8, 1790

"Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia is put in the hands of Congress?" 

Patrick Henry (1736-1799), 3 Elliot Debates 48.

"They tell us that we are weak—unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Three million people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us."  

Patrick Henry (1736-1799), 1775

Our founders knew that it is the natural evolution of big government to evolve into a Government of tyranny and to try its best to disarm the citizenry, which would remove that ultimate defender of individual freedoms, the armed citizen standing in opposition to tyranny. That is exactly what our present Federal Government is doing.  They have maneuvered themselves into positions of power, and they know that because of their ineptness, the only way they can maintain and grow their power sphere is to take freedoms away from the citizens and place it into their hands. If America is foolish enough to allow this to happen, then we have set ourselves up to eventually be enslaved similar to what has happened throughout Eastern Europe and to every nation where the people have been forced to give up the means by which they can protect themselves and their property from thieves, despots, and oppressive governments.

America is in a very dangerous frame of mind right now.  We are all sad about the killings of the 20 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticutt. We want to find a way to keep tragedies like that from happening.  In the rush to try and stop those senseless acts of violence from reoccurring, we are opening ourselves up to letting politicians who are really only concerned with one thing...securing their power positions in government, by strengthening government's control over our lives and weakening the citizen's powers to force Government into a weaker, less controlling role in our lives. 
The ideal of controlling guns is as old as leaders realizing that if the people they are trying to control do not have weapons at all or weapons that are inferior in quality and quantity as the government has, that they can control the people.  That is how Hitler did it, how Tojo did it, and innumerable other leaders in this world's history.  It is a proven fact throughout history that when the citizens private weapons were confiscated, the governments eventually became despotic and abusive governments. 
There is a misconception among the citizenry that our founders put the Second Amendment to the Constitution in place in order to give the citizens the ability to protect themselves from criminals, foreign enemies, hostile indians, and wild animals.  While these are true statements, that is not the main reason that the Amendment was put in place; and the actual motivation for that Amendment being put in place is exactly what America is facing right now.  Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and many of the other founders had, from their experiences witnessed what happened to an unarmed citizenry in Europe.  They knew that the natural tendency of big government was to gradually and with absolute certainty, was to take away the citizens' freedoms and replace them with more autocratic, authoritarian, and evil forms of government.  Our founders knew that the real reason the citizenry needed to be armed was to protect itself against a government stealing their freedoms and enslaving them under abusive, evil forms of government.  Here is what many of them had to say about the need for the citizens to protect themselves against the Government:

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." 

- Samuel Adams 

”The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.”
~Thomas Jefferson

”Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.”
~Benjamin Franklin


"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788

"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrence's and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
George Washington First President of the United States

"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
Thomas Paine

"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 American Statesman, 1788

"The great object is that every man be armed." and "Everyone who is able may have a gun."
Patrick Henry American Patriot

"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States 

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that … it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; … "
Thomas Jefferson letter to Justice John Cartwright, June 5, 1824. ME 16:45.

"The best we can help for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
Alexander Hamilton The Federalist Papers at 184-8

"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria) 

"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense."
- John Adams

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
- Patrick Henry

"I hope, therefore, a bill of rights will be formed to guard the people against the Federal government as they are already guarded against their State governments, in most instances." Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."Thomas Jefferson

 "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
Thomas Jefferson  Letter to George Washington, 1796

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President.  Source: Eighth Annual Message, November 8, 1808

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army.  To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
Thomas Jefferson 1803

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.  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 (attributed without source)

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.  Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."Thomas Jefferson's advice to his 15 year-old nephew Peter Carr 1785

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure."

Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787; “The Works of Thomas Jefferson,” Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5) Vol. 5

"The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."

Samuel Adams of Massachusetts -- U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788

"A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression."
James Madison  (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government."

Alexander Hamilton Federalist #28

"A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies."
George Washington First Annual Message to Congress  January 8, 1790

"Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia is put in the hands of Congress?" 

Patrick Henry (1736-1799), 3 Elliot Debates 48.

"They tell us that we are weak—unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Three million people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us."  

Patrick Henry (1736-1799), 1775

Our founders knew that it is the natural evolution of big government to evolve into a Government of tyranny and to try its best to disarm the citizenry, which would remove that ultimate defender of individual freedoms, the armed citizen standing in opposition to tyranny. That is exactly what our present Federal Government is doing.  They have maneuvered themselves into positions of power, and they know that because of their ineptness, the only way they can maintain and grow their power sphere is to take freedoms away from the citizens and place it into their hands. If America is foolish enough to allow this to happen, then we have set ourselves up to eventually be enslaved similar to what has happened throughout Eastern Europe and to every nation where the people have been forced to give up the means by which they can protect themselves and their property from thieves, despots, and oppressive governments.

Now is the time to stop these Washington despots from taking the power of self-protection away from the citizens. First, they will define the type of gun the individual should own, then after they have done that, they will make owners who have guns with the wrong type of clip, the wrong physical look (assault weapons), or the wrong caliber turn in those weapons, then they will get the individual pistols, hunting rifles, shotguns. If you are foolish enough to believe this is not their ultimate goal, then you are indeed, naive and have your head stuck in the sand to avoid the truth.