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Protection is a right

Is it really possible (as it seems) that over half of the elected politicians in this country are out to do away those constitutional laws that limit their authority to suppress the rights of all law-abiding citizens, rights that they swore to uphold in order to get themselves elected?

Rights that begin with: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”? Do these clods not understand that they have no legal authority to make such a course-change without the approval of the majority of the states (not just New York and California)?

In those situations where seconds count and the police are only a few minutes away, what will your last thoughts be if you have allowed these clods to do away with your fundamental right to protect yourself?

These guys who call themselves “honorable” this and that have lots of instant police protection at the very time when they give out their infallible utterances against self-protection.

When the crime-wave rises drastically in our beloved country you can be sure that when we reach the “too late” stage, these honorables will find someone other than themselves to blame it on.

Johnny Vaughn

Nine Mile Falls



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