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They say you don’t need one for self-defense, that this no longer is the ‘Wild West,’ and we should leave such things to the police, just sit and wait for them, that would be best. But when seconds count, sitting and waiting will leave a person well and truly screwed, and oh, by the way, the courts say that they have no obligation to protect you. Some would rather you die then fire back, they had so little respect for the one you’ve a natural right to defend your life, so don’t you ever give up your guns. They say don’t worry about your family, it is no longer your job to protect them, delegate that duty off to the state, which you should know is your greatest of friends. And though that friend might not be there the night you have to watch your own daughter be raped, it’s better you don’t kill that ‘troubled soul,’ it’s much more ‘moral’ to let him escape. They would explain away his felony, use his sad upbringing as a bludgeon, only you can defend those close to you, so for God’s sake, don’t give up your guns. They say you will never need such weapons just to go out into the woods for deer, as if the threat of antlered cervids is the type of threat that free people should fear. They expect us to forget the lessons learned back in seventeen seventy-six; that the state is necessary evil, and can become too corrupt to be fixed. Though the mere thought of such a circumstance does not strike any sane person as fun, the option must always be in our hands, so we can’t ever give up our guns. They will laugh and say in the modern day that such notions no longer will work, militaries have become too advanced, it’s big machines that will cause all the hurt. But I think of Vietnam and Iraq, the great trouble that 'mere' guns did cause, and those were people united for evil, not for liberty and the rule of law. Imagine what true patriots can do, and the British, they have seen it done, we must always be armed and ready, so you can never give up your guns... CONCLUDES IN PART II.
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