A good series from David Codrea. I’ve posted the lead-in for both:
Part One: Time enough for love
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” —Patrick Henry, Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 5, 1788
We the People, by and large, have given up that force, abdicating it through ignorance, laziness and apathy. And that includes most members of that citizen militia the Founders deemed “necessary to the security of a free State.”
Henry’s contemporary, and in many ways, ideological opposite, would not have been surprised.
“The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious,” Alexander Hamilton warned in Federalist 29.
via The enemy within – National gun rights | Examiner.com.
“Who will plant this wheat?”—Paul Galdone, The Little Red Hen
There are an estimated 80 million gun owners in the United States. Only five percent of those are concerned enough about the Second Amendment to join the biggest of the “gun lobby” groups, the National Rifle Association. The numbers drop considerably for smaller organizations, such as Gun Owners of America, and many memberships overlap, with joiners pulling double (or more) duty.
Of this small minority claiming the mantle of “activist” gun owners, how many actually roll up their sleeves and put in time and effort working on freedom-related activities—on top of renewing memberships and reading the magazine?
via The enemy within part 2 – National Gun Rights Examiner.com
Truth, Lies and In Between 