Thomas Jefferson-a Close Personal Look

I wish I had originated this. But since this is a blog, and since I am not taking any credit for this other than re-posting it, I am going to do so and state my emphatic agreement with it's content and purpose.

Its content is very pointed; Jefferson was perhaps the smartest of the founding fathers. Its purpose is to relate to everyone that reads it how Jefferson felt about big government...he both feared and hated it. Too bad the buffoons running our Government today are not nearly as smart or wise as Jefferson was.

“This is amazing. There are two parts. Be sure to read the 2nd part ( below in RED).

Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.

At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.

At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.

At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.

At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.

At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

At 23, started his own law practice.

At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America? And retired from his law practice.

At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence .

At 33, took three years to revise Virginia's legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress for two years.

At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.

A t 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.

At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.

At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .

At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.

At 61, was elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired to Monticello .

At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.

At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today.. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"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
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

(Author Unknown to me!)

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.

AMERICA, ESPECIALLY OHIO! Do the Right Thing for an old soldier...Vote ROMNEY!

I am a retired U.S. Army Major. As a retiree, I certainly am concerned about this economy. Being on pretty much of a fixed income, and as someone that has reached the age where nobody wants to hire someone of my age, I am looking at a very uncertain future. Yet, as I look at this election, I really get more concerned when I hear everyone saying the economy is the main thing that they are worried about. I think that is a very selfish, very short-range view of what America's real problems are, and that scares the you-know-what out of me.

I spent twenty years serving this nation. The military does something to a person that a non-military person cannot understand. People like Michael Moore, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and, in general, the left-wing liberals of the Democratic Party have no real idea what true love of country is like a soldier feels it. Every soldier, whether he is a front-line combat soldier or a rear-area logistic or personnel clerk understands that as a member of the military, in the time of national crisis, we may be called on to lay down his or her life to preserve this nation's freedoms. Politicians and liberals, on the other hand, look at this nation as a great evil monster, and have a mindset that they are going to be the saviors of our nation by transforming it into a politically correct, socialist, nanny state where the rich are persecuted and taxed into mediocrity, where the poor are continually enslaved by the government through social programs that redistribute income from the rich to the poor in turn for the votes of the poor.

There is a consistent pattern from President Obama and his administration that is extremely dangerous to the future viability of America's future. Obama's dismantling of the military, his outright antagonistic treatment of the Christian foundations of this nation, his statements that “America is no longer a Christian nation”, his refusal to attend a national day of prayer, but his praying with the Muslims on a Muslim day of prayer in Washington, D.C., his refusal to place his hand over his heart during the national anthem, and his disastrous handling of the economy and his government takeover of the national health care system are killing America. Now, his handling of the Libyan ambassador's pleas for help on 9/11 and the ensuing lies and cover-up of the handling of that attack which resulted in the death of the Ambassador and three other Americans are absolutely criminal.

As a student of the connection between this nation's history as a Christian nation [yes...that is what I said, and the beliefs and writings of our nation's founders confirm the assertion that America was founded as a Christian nation]. Our founders fled Europe and England and came to the new world hoping for a life where their economic and religious freedoms to worship God could be expressed according to their own wills, and not dictated by a monarchy or a dictator. They were NOT seeking the absence of religious practice, but the freedom to practice their form of Christianity without persecution.

The writings of the founders repeatedly confessed their belief that the future of this nation's growth, prosperity and freedom from tyranny was dependent upon its reliance upon the mercies and blessing of God. As they declared their freedom, they did so openly confessing that for them to gain and hold their freedom, God would have to sustain and empower them against the attacks of England and other enemies that would seek to enslave them and strip them of their freedoms to pursue their dreams of prosperity through their own hard work and their ability to determine their own form of government and how that government would function. Here are three examples of statements from our leaders stating their belief that following the guidelines outlined in the Bible had to be the basis of our nation's guiding principles, or the nation would not endure:

George Washington said… “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible”
Andrew Jackson said… “That book, sir, is the rock on which the republic rests.”
Daniel Webster said …”If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”

President Obama is a man on a mission, and that mission is to move America towards membership in a one world form of government; a huge nanny state that restricts the individual's ability to be whatever he wants to be and earn whatever he is willing to takes the risks and put out the efforts to do. Instead, he wants to allow individuals to earn only as much as this one world government deems is proper, then take the rest away and distribute it as this one world government sees fit in order to...give everyone a fair share and level the playing field. He is a pathological liar, as are most all liberal politicians. They tell the people what they want them to believe, then will lie looking them straight in the face and do all they can to cover up the truth so that their lies will not be uncovered and exposed.

Most politicians are liars today. Their big trick is to “spin” things so that they can twist the facts around and make it seem as though their way of looking at things is the only proper way to view them. That is the very reason that the First Amendment to the Constitution was written, so that there would always be a free press out there and that free press would be the watchdog for the citizens of this great nation against a government trying to lie and manipulate them.

President Obama is a master manipulator. We see it in what is happening with regards to their debacle in Benghazi, Libya. There, the President and his administration's failure to act caused the death of four brave Americans. Then, instead of telling the truth about what happened, the President and his cohorts have gone into full stone-walling and cover-up mode, trying to put the blame on some independent film casting a bad light on the Muslim prophet Mohammad, instead of recognizing the event as a well-planned, coordinated attack by Muslim extremist groups to cause more harm to America's image on the 11^th anniversary of 9/11/2001. As the evidence continues to come in, the President and his cohorts are only digging their holes deeper as they stone-wall and refuse to discuss the issue at all, and the liberal press are barely mentioning it for fear it might cause the President to lose his re-election bid.

This is a man that needs to be stopped. He and his entire administration need to be run out of Washington D.C. on a rail. He is un-American, he is a economic fool, an incompetent and gutless commander in chief, and he WILL destroy America. It is time for Americans to realize that there is really something more important than their own pocketbooks. We need to be Americans first in this election. We need to protect America first, and stop this fool before he has another four years to dismantle the America that our founding founders created.

To the people of America, and especially those in Ohio...I beg you to look beyond this temporary economic situation. America is a resilient nation of brave, industrious people, and this nation will recover from the economic recession in the long run. Instead of wasting your worries on the temporal things like the economy, look at a bigger picture of America's future; that of its destiny as ordained by our founders and by God. America was formed as a nation where people were free to be all that they could make themselves to be. We were a nation whose foundations were structured around Christian principles; a nation that feared God, yet understood that by putting God first, our nation's future would be bright and the freedoms that the nation was founded to provide would endure. If you want our nation to endure and prosper, you must turn aside from this socialist, this anti-Christian, closet Muslim, and this evil, diabolical, despicable excuse of a politician and leader that lied and bamboozled himself into the Presidency and elect a man that has shown true moral, religious, and ethical strength, and has experience in creating success, rather than failure.

If you respect our military, I can tell you that virtually every military person that has been involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is NOT supporting Obama. We think that he is a joke, a HORRIBLE leader, a fool, and a dangerous lunatic. We felt the same way about President Clinton. We still believe that Islamic militants are a serious threat to American citizens. We love America, have made the commitment that if required, we are willing to lay down our lives to protect American freedoms, but we do NOT want to die if we are being treated like political cannon fodder to protect a nut-case's fear of offending people who want to kill us. I care NOTHING about offending people who want to kill us; I want to kill them BEFORE they kill us, and unless you vote this sorry excuse of a Commander in Chief out of office, I can promise you that it is not a matter of IF, but only a matter of WHEN his weakness against the Islamic militants will result in another disaster like 9/11 happening here in America, but probably with more disastrous results than the first one. It is only by the grace of God that the number of deaths on 9/11 was not in the twenty to thirty THOUSAND, instead of the 3,000+ that occurred in the first attacks.

I appeal to your love of country, your belief in the military, and your sense of national security to NOT vote for Obama, but to vote for Romney. Obama is a loser; he is a con-artist, a liar, and a fool. He is an American hater, a socialist, and a closet Muslim, and we cannot stand another four years of this.

Do the right thing, Ohio. Vote Obama out of office; vote for Romney.