In the tradition of Labor Day, which I consider to be an illegitimate federal holiday since it is originally a socialist holiday, I went out shooting. I regard the right to keep and bear arms something worthy of veneration on a federal holiday. Despite a stiff wind and strong sun, I was able to test out some new ammunition and reaffirm my skill with my Winchester 94 in .357 Magnum. When I can hit a clear glass bottle at 75 meters on the second shot with fixed sights, I think I'm doing well. You see, I'm a Minute Man, ready to resist with my rifle what my pen and phone do not allow me to resist.
People should not be afraid of their governments. People of patriotism should say, I have a pen and a phone too, and I'm not going to do this. We're not going to follow a lawless, illegal, action by a prior president. Precedence does not mean we have to continue to do something that is wrong. In the officer oath for US Servicemen, it does not obligate officers to follow the Commander in Chief, and moreover it requires them to refuse any illegal and immoral order given by a superior.
I think that every red blooded American citizen should learn how to use, keep, and handle a firearm. Those able to afford it and comfortable with keeping one should own one or two or ten. An armed citizenry is the best bulwark against an oppressive state. It's why Switzerland has never been invaded. It's why Britain failed to subjugate us in 1776. Thomas Paine said it best "Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of Liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us." If we want to be ready, we must be armed. God will not let us sit on our thrones and deliver us if we are unable to lay anything on the altar of freedom. That is our labor- Freedom. I pray that you will always be ready to work and ready to live what you believe and worthy of that for which our progenitors so nobly sacrificed.
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