asked...answered...long ago as the dangers to myself and family mounted...
theres a point where self defense takes on a tactically different form than is present when confronted by a simple mugger on the street...
ive prayed that it wouldnt come to that, but if it must, my prayer is that it happens on my watch and that my children can be spared from participation...
tyranical blood-lust is a part of our broken human nature, and as such, there will always be another tyrant/bully that wont stop when asked politely...theyll have to face force and destruction...
May God have mercy on us.
Amen.
Ditto that. I've two teenage sons that I've prayed and prayed would be spared having to fight the battle that my generation should've taken up long ago ........
Aye. Given the build-ups we've seen (NSA intel gathering, weapons/ammo-stockpiling, forward-base disbursement [aka "militarization of the police]) and the utter aversion to pursuance of justice (Fast and Furious, Wide Receiver, Benghazi, Obamacare/CGI, Solyndra, etc) I'm thinking only God's hand can prevent bloodshed as the restoration of just governance... and it may be by bloodshed God works (see the book of Esther).
I've prayed that it wouldn't come to that, but if it must, my prayer is that it happens on my watch and that my children can be spared from participation...
I have no children, but that sentiment is one I've always admired; John Adams said something similar in a letter to his wife:
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.