“It is the right and duty of the citizen to be at all times armed”
Good enough for the Founders is good enough for me.
Indians and wild beasts then - Urban Ferals infesting the ‘Concrete Jungle” now.
And,thanks to enviro-socialist based wildlife programs, wild beasts in our natural jungle.
A thank you to President Bush for signing the law allowing guns in national parks. Once again, we can walk in the woods without being stripped of our Second Amendment Rights by the Armed & Rangerous.
I would say we should try to get him to testify before difi and the other anti clowns but, then again, they don’t give a sh$t. Asshats.
This tract in the Southern Tier of New York is my home country -- born in Olean, lived many years in Allegany County -- divorced from County Court in Belmont, and won custody of my children there.
In the adjoining counties, Steuben, Allegany, and Cattaraugus I learned the meaning of arms-bought liberty, continued by proper use of both. But the quote above, purported to be Santayana's, was originated by the Irish-born Anglican Edmund Burke (1729-1797), worthy of closer examination; a contemporary , co-religionist, and supporter of George Washington; and IMHO a greater man than the one who claimed that they were in those "... times that try men's souls ..." (Thomas Paine).
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A few of Burke's quotes:
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.
When bad men combine, the good must associate;
else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice
in a contemptible struggle.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?
It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is
folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Let us be like-minded, now; and persuade others as did Burke.