Happy 4th of July, Independence Day!
Remembering Their Sacrifice for You!
The road we have walked as Americans has rarely
been smooth or straight. We have been challenged and tested many times in
many ways – by wars, natural disasters, disease, economic chaos, political
strife, and yet the underlying documents that bind us have prevailed until
now.
Today, we stand at crossroads facing a new
kind of enemy, more insidious, and in numerous ways, more deadly than any
we have ever known. The enemy is among us, having insinuated its way into
the highest offices of the land, threatening our liberty and the very
foundations that made this nation.
There have been times past when our
patriotism has waxed and waned, when the pedestrian burdens that life
imposes have distracted us, when we have become complacent in the
assumption that all we enjoy is the normal human condition, but it is not.
Our liberty was hard won, and we must fight to maintain it!
We are reminded, today, of an immigrant to
these shores - Mr. Thomas Paine, a man of modest means who became an
anonymous pamphleteer, in a role we well know. Mr. Paine cloaked himself in
anonymity to avoid the hangman’s noose. Not all of the brave signers of the
Declaration of Independence were equally fortunate to survive the
Revolution without having to wear the necktie of death. We at C O M M
O N S E N S E are similarly anonymous, but for reasons that we wish
only our ideas to be challenged, and this is best accomplished without the
publication of persona.
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish
history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the
fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy
is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form
of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that
voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the
public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the
candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the
result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy,
(which is) always followed by a dictatorship." The average age of
the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been
about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed
through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from
spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to
abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; From
apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.
What does it take? Three Percent is
the number of colonists who took the field to actively fight against King
George III. Three Percent is the number of America’s armed citizenry
today who can be counted on to actively resist any future restrictions on
firearms, or indeed, any more attacks on the God-given natural liberties
which are codified in the Constitution.
There are, give or take, a hundred million
firearms owners in this country. Three percent of that number is three
million. So when we speak of the Three Percent, we are talking about three
million firearms owners who are politically active, but no longer count on
politics alone to defend their liberties. These three million have watched
as our traditional right to arms has been attacked and diminished on the
federal level for more than 75 years since the National Firearms Act of
1934. In that time, in almost every instance when a new firearm restriction
has been proposed, we have lost the political argument and being
law-abiding we have allowed ourselves to be shoved back, grumbling. The
Three Percent are simply saying, "No more.” One more restriction on
our natural liberties -- the liberties the Founders did their best to
secure -- and we will resist.
If our right to peaceably assemble with
other law-abiding citizens is restricted we will fight back and dare the
authorities to do anything about it! We can only be oppressed
with our consent, for we are armed. And WE DO NOT CONSENT.
How will they react? They will shoot
you or arrest you. Yes, they must. “It is what they do. That’s the
ultimate threat behind every governmental infringement. ‘Do this or we will
shoot you.‘ But THEY must fire first. Do we need a
revolution? No, we need a RESTORATION. There must be no Fort Sumter(s). THEY must cede the moral
high ground.”
We are the Three Percent.
We will not disarm.
You cannot convince us.
You cannot intimidate us.
You can try to kill us, if you think you
can.
But remember, we will shoot back.
We are not going away.
We are not backing up another inch.
And there are THREE MILLION OF US.
Your move, Mr. Wannabe Tyrant.
Your move.
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