On the Right to Bear Arms & Gun Control

 

 

 

Early American settlers felt it was important to have the right to bear arms for several reasons including deterring tyrannical government and facilitating a natural right to self defense. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right of the people to bear arms and it was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights. In 2008 and in 2010 the Supreme Court, in landmark decisions, declared that this right is unconnected to service in a militia. There were, and are those today, who attempt to claim that the only purpose of the 2nd Amendment, and the right to bear arms, was for militia purposes. They are wrong.

The Founding Fathers were also very strong in their statements concerning the right to bear arms. George Washington said: "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." Thomas Jefferson stated :"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." He went on further to say: "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"....and..."No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

Today people in the United States are buying guns in record numbers. Why do you think that is the case? Yes, for self protection, but increasingly people today DO have a fear of the tyranny of our own government. They see our freedoms threatened and increasing over control by our federal government into every aspect of our lives. They see the government invading our privacy and actually spying on our own people in many forms, in violation to the Constitution. They see an irresponsible Congress and government that are pushing us further and further into debt. They see our sovereignty being threatened as a nation, being given up to the UN and other international organizations. They see our Constitution being not only circumvented, by actually violated. People fear the tyranny of our own government. They know that one of the first things that is done in a dictatorship is take the guns our of the hands of the people, so they can be more easily controlled. All these reasons are why people are buying guns in record numbers...let's be honest about it.

We have had terrible tragedies in the United Sates in recent times, most recently in Newtown, Connecticut. Gun control advocates, and many in our government, shamelessly seize on this as an opportunity, not even allowing the grief of the tragedy to begin to subside. They use it as an opportunity. Yet we all know that criminals, those who have a propensity toward violence, will always have access to weapons through various underground, or black market, sources. Our own government sold weapons to known Mexican criminals! Our own government routinely provides for the distribution of weapons to those forces who are seemingly friendly to our cause. (And in many cases turn out not to be.)

With the "gun control" that is now being sought, criminals and those who have a tendency toward violence will find guns and weapons. Law abiding citizens who want self protection and actually do fear the tyranny of government will be the ones who will be hurt. Thomas Jefferson said: "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."

There is a reason for the 2nd Amendment and it had been very well thought through at the time in the forming of our great country by some pretty amazing people.

 

 

 

Christmas & Holidays - A Time to Reflect on God

 

 

The underlying problem with America is not the economy, jobs, the debt, the threat of terrorism, or other frequently mentioned problems. The problem is the increasing absence of God from our nation. Throughout history it has been proven, time and time again, that a nation's moral condition and its character are key to its survival. Nations, as well as individuals, are subject to God's moral laws. It is said that we should learn from history. Yet one only needs to look at history and the ruination of empires and nations of the past...the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and in more recent times Nazi Germany, and Communist Russia. The common thread is that God was removed in favor of the emperor, the dictator, the ruler, and / or the state. The fact is that they cannot co-exist. Loyalty to God interferes with loyalty to the ruler and the state. In effect, the ruler and the state become God.

Our Founding Fathers believed that God was important to both the founding and survival of our nation. Some modern day historians have tried to bury and ignore this very important part of our heritage. They want us to believe that the Founding Fathers were mainly Deists or Agnostics. Yet most of them were devout Christians and even those who weren't believed that God was critical to the survival of our nation. The proof of this is through their writings and speeches, our history is laced with their references to God.

Today, there is an ongoing distortion of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting the establishment of religion and impeding the free exercise of religion. Yet we have several groups today in our country that have twisted this toward actual violation of the Amendment by specifically preventing the free exercise of religion. The underlying motive is to take God out of every aspect of American life. It is a real and ongoing battle, and for the most part they are succeeding.

We see the bad fruits of eliminating God from our country. This starts with the destruction of marriage and the family, the very cornerstone of society. It extends to rampant immorality, the deterioration of our education system, the dumbing up of our population through wide spread drug use, crime, political and corporate corruption, the lack of respect for life, the use of propaganda in order to fool people...and even brainwashing in our schools. We see signs of it all around us. This is what always happens when God is removed from a nation, from a society.

As we approach the Christmas and Holiday season, we should all reflect on what God means to us individually and as a nation. Facts and history have shown that removing God from our lives, and from our nation, will result in ruination. Conversely, by placing God strongly in our lives and recognizing Him to be foundational to our nation will result in both personal success, and the lasting success of our nation. We WILL solve our problems, one by one.

 

 

Forewarning on New Major Economic Crisis in America

 

 

The "fiscal cliff" will be far overshadowed by the next looming financial crisis in America. The burst of the inflation bubble will be an economic catastrophe for America. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the monthly Consumer Price Index, that represents the "reported" inflation rate in our country. In 2009 the inflation rate was reported as flat, and even went negative for a few months! In 2012 it is running about 2%, or less. Yet those of us who buy food and all the necessities to live by, and pay for energy costs, gasoline, health insurance, increasing taxes and fees, etc. realize that REAL inflation is running from 10 to 15%...much higher than reported.

Generally, under normal times, keeping interest rates low is a good thing since it stimulates investments and eases debt burden. But these are far from normal times. Interest rates on savings have been artificially suppressed, actually squashed down, for over 3 years now to levels typically well under 1%. This has a tremendous negative impact on seniors who place a good amount of their life savings into conservative investments such as savings and CD accounts, but get practically nothing in return. It also affects the middle class and the poor since they are unable to improve their financial state through savings. Further, with interest rates artificially so low much less money goes into the economy through spending. Even worse, money that is in savings and CD accounts is worth less and less since real inflation is quite high and the value of the dollar is decreasing.

The final nail in the coffin comes from the Federal Reserve printing paper money, flooding the economy with nothing to back it up, to the tune of $40 billion per month, or $480 billion per year! The result of this is that the dollar is worth less and less.

 The result of real inflation being already high + interest rates squashed artificially low + the value of the dollar being lowered by printing an enormous amount of paper money = an economic disaster for America.

The inflation bubble will burst, causing prices / inflation to skyrocket. Prices of food and needed goods to live by will be staggeringly high. Millions, upon millions of Americans will be driven into a state of poverty and dependency. It will become a seemingly different America almost overnight.

It seems that all the economists and the "financial experts" have their head in the sand on this. We are headed toward a very major economic crisis in America that will overshadow anything that has happened so far. It will hit us in 2013, or at the latest in the first quarter of 2014. This is a forewarning.