Signing Petitions

"I'm in a quandary about signing anti gun control petitions, because if I had any guns, I wouldn't want anybody to even suspect I had any, and the more violently you object to gun control, the more likely they are to suspect you have guns!

Any petition you sign will (probably instantaneously) put you on all of the gov's suspect lists."

So read the Email from a friend today. Someone who I've been trying to get on board with standing up for his rights as an American. Not only his Second Amendment rights, but all Ten of them. Starting with the First. Our right to disagree with, petition to, and even- at time- agree with, are bound in the First and protected by the Second- as any who understand our Founding Fathers knows that they put the Second Amendment in to protect our right to all of them. As well as to make any necessary drastic changes needed to the government they were initiating.

"Standing up for his rights as an American."

No other country on the planet has so much freedom, so much choice, so much power, relegated to its citizens. (Too bad so few practice those rights!)

"WOW! That is poetry! You MUST put that on your blog! If you don't, I will put it on mine." His response to my answer to his quandary.

My response, such as it is and has been reported here at other times as well on many Constitution oriented blogs...

"That's not a quandary as I see it.

I'm not concerned with them knowing I have guns- I want them to know it. The more people they know have weapons they are willing to use to defend the Constitution and this country, the less willing they will be to attempt at 1) disarming us, 2) starting a war they know they cannot win, 3) less likely for the U.N. or other foreign invaders to think they can just come in and sweep through us.
You have to understand that we Constitutional, Bible-believing gun owners are NOT interested in starting a war, but we WILL finish it. Also, you need to know that I am too old and too damned tired to run any more. If they want me, they can come get me- but I'm NOT going peacefully. I will take at least as many of them as they take of me.
Honestly, Tom- this is a really BIG issue with millions of Americans who believe in God, the Bible, the Constitution and a Free Republic, for which we stand.
We are so very tired of compromise and giving in and losing ground to the damn communists and liberal assholes who want to turn this country into a Socialist/Marxist country.
It isn't that we want to start a war, are interested in it or desiring of one, because we are not. But we will no longer be backed up: every gun owner in America has to decide where they will draw the line in the sand and tell the liberal dotgov they are not allowed to cross that line, and we will defend that line. And, if you read anything beyond what the MSM puts out- such as laws that are now before the Houses of dotgov- you will see they are so willing and trying very hard to cross that line. The only thing keeping them from doing so is the myriad American Patriots who own guns they will begrudgingly use.
Look, I'm sorry if I rag on you about this, but my Country- America- is my last stand. I will not be moved. God- my God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit- is my God. I will not have them relegated to a position behind Allah or any Muslim creation. Nor will I back up and run because the Muslim world says they will kill me if I don't join them. I will not join, period. Nor will I allow my dotgov to denigrate the Words of my God or put Him and His people- Christians and Israeli- into a status lower than worms.
This country is where I live, what I love, and I will not see it turned into a Marxist-anti-capitalist state run by the fedgov when the Law of the Land clearly states we are a nation "Of the People, By the People, For the People". Not the fed.
Should I be killed because of my beliefs and love of God and my Country and its Constitution, then so be it. God is in control.
Besides- I've been on every black list they've got for forty years, no way am I getting off it."

I'd like to take this opportunity to enlarge that thought... not that it needs it for any who love this country, but because I feel the desire.
This country was founded upon People's Rights. Human Rights, if you will. The right to pursue our dreams- succeed or fail, the dreams were in our hands, not the fedgov. The right to personal protection- both our physical selves and our property. Our Founding Fathers knew the fedgov/dotgov has no right to inoculate (pun intended) any unwilling person: invasion of privacy, security in person and home is inviolate, in spite of the programs being initiated now by the Dark Lord's henchmen. Our Founding Fathers knew the Republic they were establishing was going to become an evil and scurrilous bastard child, so they incorporated the means for the believers in Freedom to restrain that beast in the Second Amendment.
That our Founders understood People to be more important than government is obvious in their placement of the Human Rights Amendments ahead of the rights of the government. It's people who are governed, but should be only mildly so to do as their God and our Founders knew was right: live peacefully and in harmony with each other and God, to grow as a nation the entire world could look to and see how it is supposed to be done.

"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

That was their Line in the Sand.
Where have you drawn yours?
Bless God, God bless-
Shy III