Member in Good Standing, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy...

To UPHOLD, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, SO HELP ME GOD...

This, I have sworn; this, I WILL do.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

"Republic... I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober; however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat. The same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step, or when his first baby shaves, or makes his first sound like a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. Republic is one of those words." -John Wayne, "The Alamo"

The Second Amendment - Live, Eat, Breathe, Sleep it. Without THAT, the rest of the Constitution is merely words on paper. Self-defense is THE MOST BASIC HUMAN, CIVIL, AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. REFUSE to give it up.

"The rifle? Wouldn't go out naked without a rifle. When shoes and clothes and food, when even hope is gone, we'll have the rifle." --John Steinbeck (1902-1968),_The Grapes of Wrath_

"What is a handgun for? A handgun is for fighting your way BACK to your Battle Rifle, which you shouldn't have left behind in the first place. A handgun will defend your life; but only a Battle Rifle will defend your LIBERTY." - Boston T. Party

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career. I mean to do this with absolute disregard of personal consequences. What are personal consequences? What is the individual man, with all the good or evil that may betide him, in comparison with the good or evil which may befall a great country, and in the midst of great transactions which concern that country's fate?
Let the consequences be what they will, I am careless. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer, or if he fall, in the defense of the Liberties and Constitution of his country. Daniel Webster, "An American Without Reserve"

"Fight, and you may die... Run, and you'll live -- at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that for ONE chance, just ONE chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... our FREEDOM!" -Braveheart

People DIED for this right. Many of us will not give it up lightly.

Quotes from Some Great Americans

In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it -- for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. - Thomas Jefferson -"Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms", July 1776

"This is a party-- this Republican party is a party for free men. Not for blind followers and not for conformists. Back in 1858 Abraham Lincoln said this of the Republican party-and I quote him because he probably could have said it during the last week or so-it was composed of strained, discordant, and even hostile elements. End of the quote, in 1958 [sic]. Yet all of these elements agreed on paramount objective: to arrest the progress of slavery, and place it in the course of ultimate extinction. Today, as then, but more urgently and more broadly than then, the task of preserving and enlarging freedom at home and safeguarding it from the forces of tyranny abroad is great,enough to challenge all our resources and to require all our strength. Anyone who joins us in all sincerity, we welcome. Those, those who do not care for our cause, we don"t expect to enter our ranks, in any case. And let our Republicanism so focused and so dedicated not be made fuzzy and futile by unthinking and stupid labels. I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! -Barry Goldwater

“So it appears that the “home of the brave” includes citizens who may be intimidated by the presence of a plastic knife! One may only be terrorized if he allows himself to be. “Terror” is a bad word and should be abandoned. Apparently, we are living in an age when word usage may be dictated by the timid, the cowardly and the dishonorable. Let us turn that around and set up proper English usage to suit people who are worthy of it. Just as you cannot be enslaved against your will, you cannot be terrorized against your will. We inherit a noble tradition. Let us now resolve to live up to it...”
-Col. Jeff Cooper (Rest in Peace, Colonel. Semper Fi)

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.”
-John Adams

“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say ‘what should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
-Sam Adams

“It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”
-Patrick Henry

“Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”
- Patrick Henry

“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.”
- Patrick Henry

“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”
- Ronald Reagan

“Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.”
-Ronald Reagan

“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
-John Adams

Gun control organizations are to gun owners like the Ku Klux Klan is to black people. There’s really only one difference: Where the KKK has generally been known to exert its own violence against its victims, anti-gunners get the police to do their dirty work.
-Angel Shamaya, KeepAndBearArms.com

“Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak.”
— George Orwell

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.
— Thomas Jefferson in a letter to William S. Smith in 1787. Taken from Jefferson, On Democracy p. 20, S. Padover ed., 1939

I am tired of seeing people get attacked for speaking the truth and
the hecklers not being able to prove their point other than scorn or
ridicule. Liberals can’t refute the truth so all liberals instead
attempt to make the truth bearer into a buffoon hoping to draw the
public’s attention away from the message! I will tell you a secret
and I hope that you learn from it! If I hear something being debated
pertaining to a subject that I am not cognizant of, therefore impartial,
I examine the manner of the debate and conduct. I know who is telling
the truth and who is lying by the tactics employed - the liar always
attacks the opposing person and the truth teller always attacks the
opposing premise! What great person or debater has ever proven their
point by ridiculing people? Did Jesus use this method? Who has ever
used ridicule other than those who can’t refute the truth, such as what
the Pharisees did to Jesus? Truth is never defended with ridicule. Facts
speak for themselves. — “Doc” Tavish