Happy 4th Of July
I’m going to be busy this holiday down at the lake cabin with my family. I’ve brought down five guns, roughly 400 rounds of ammo and about $800 worth of fireworks.
Because I know what the true meaning of this holiday is. Freedom, and I plan on exercising a lot of that this weekend, so obviously posting will be light.
I’ll leave you with an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, signed on this date 232 years ago, which lays out for us in simple terms what our most basic duty as citizens is: Vigilance, and not just for threats posed by foreign tyrants but threats posed by domestic tyrants who would use the power of government to limit rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
This part of the Declaration, my favorite part in fact, is particularly of interest now in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling on Washington DC vs. Heller which upheld the right to individual possession of firearms. Which is a right our founders invested in we citizens so that we could enforce this particular, forcefully-expressed ideal from the Declaration:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Have a fun holiday, and stay safe.
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