{"id":726,"date":"2013-02-25T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?page_id=726"},"modified":"2013-12-02T01:53:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T08:53:11","slug":"defense-of-the-2nd-amendment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?page_id=726","title":{"rendered":"Defense of 2nd Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">&#8220;A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Here are some of the many, positive news items in reaction to the Obama Administration Assault on our God-given Right to Self-Defense guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>On Breitbart Big Government: <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kerry Picket, 15 Feb 2013<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;Six gun companies have announced plans to stop selling any of their products to any government agency in states that severely limit the rights of private gun ownership.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;&#8230;the companies&#8211;composed of firearm manufacturers, gunsmiths, and sporting goods retailers&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Their various statements emphasize that such laws create a class of government employees with rights and a class of citizens without rights. Thus, they refuse to aid the enforcement of such inequality&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/02\/15\/Gun-Companies-To-State-Governments-With-Strict-Gun-Laws-No-Guns-For-You\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-<wbr \/>Government\/2013\/02\/15\/Gun-<wbr \/>Companies-To-State-<wbr \/>Governments-With-Strict-Gun-<wbr \/>Laws-No-Guns-For-You<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Former Secret Service Agent, Daniel Bongino, recent candidate for the U. S. Senate from Maryland, is one of the many Constitutional Conservatives rising to take a stand in the Battle for Our Liberty, Under God!\u00a0 The first link includes the video provided below, of his speech at a &#8220;<span style=\"color: #025278;\">Guns Across America Rally<\/span>&#8221; in Annapolis, Maryland, on January 19, 2013.\u00a0 He begins with,<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s no such thing as Gun Control.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t co-opt their language.\u00a0 There&#8217;s only People Control, and I can prove it to you.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bongino.com\"><strong>http:\/\/www.bongino.com<\/strong><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>; [<span style=\"color: #800000;\">June 22, 2013:<\/span> This Home Page does not have as much information now, but, y<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ou can navigate to other pages at the site.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>..<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>He is still active and in the News.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Itasca<\/em>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dan Bongino @ Guns Across America Rally in Annapolis, MD\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R8WLXhahw_A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The second link is to his background, but the video is no longer there.\u00a0 The other two pages on the site are a blog and &#8220;issues.<\/strong><\/span>&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bongino.com\/about\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.bongino.com\/about\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inspiring Speech by US Senate Candidate Dan Bongino\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vf78iOXx1wY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The third link takes you to a blog the 16-year, <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Former <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Secret Service Agent, wrote, in answer to the Maryland governor&#8217;s plan to limit bullets in gun magazines.\u00a0 The same mentality that produced New York&#8217;s new law limiting magazines to seven bullets.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The blog appeared on &#8220;WATCHDOGWIRE&#8221;, on January 22, 2013.\u00a0 Here is an excerpt, with the link:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Maryland Governor\u2019s New Proposal Targets Bullet Limits<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>An Outlook from a Former Secret Service Agent<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I remember from my childhood a song lyric that read, <span style=\"color: #025278;\">\u201cOnce you trade magic for fact there are no trade-backs.\u201d<\/span> \u00a0Have we now entered a point in our political evolution where the reverse has happened and we are now trading fact for magic? In my home state of Maryland, a state where a Democratic\u00a0super-majority\u00a0in the state legislature and a Democratic governor have unfettered political control, law-making is seemingly guided by an allegiance to magic. \u00a0I want to highlight <span style=\"color: #000000;\">a new proposal<\/span> on Governor O\u2019Malley\u2019s agenda: a gun-control measure in the form of a bullet limit regulation on magazines&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><br \/>\n&#8230;I single out magazine size because in my sixteen-years-plus of experience with firearms as a Secret Service agent, I have <em>never<\/em> come into contact with a criminal who felt that magazine regulations on the number of permissible bullets was a barrier to him; it is only the legal gun-owner who now is limited in his ability to defend himself&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/watchdogwire.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/maryland-governors-new-proposal-targets-bullet-limits\/\">http:\/\/watchdogwire.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/maryland-governors-new-proposal-targets-bullet-limits\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Last, but, assuredly NOT least, is the link to an excellent Power Point Presentation by John Santanen, in support of Liberty, the Second Amendment and our Right to Self-Defense.\u00a0 After a rousing rendition of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, in the ensuing silence, the presentation speaks volumes!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorstream.com\/Presentation\/Simspeed-657992-right-to-bear-arms\/\">http:\/\/www.authorstream.com\/Presentation\/Simspeed-657992-right-to-bear-arms\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Please watch for more, positive updates, as America awakens to say, &#8220;NO MORE!&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>&#8220;Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? 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