In full agreement with LaPierre
LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson
It is rare to find an analysis with which one can be in total agreement, but I came across one recently and decided to share.
The remarks were made by Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, in the organization’s publication, American Rifleman.
Here they are:
“President Obama’s remaining term may be the most dangerous two years our nation has faced. Over the next 700 days, we face a fight for the soul and survival of America as we know it … .
“With no more elections ahead, Obama is now free to impose his true agenda — as he said, ‘to fundamentally transform the United States.’
“He hasn’t let the law stop him. Even before he had the ‘flexibility’ that he told Russian President Putin his last election would give him, Obama acted above the law.
“He rewrites laws after they’re passed, as he did with health care, to score political advantage. He refuses to enforce laws — for example, by refusing to prosecute armed, violent criminals. When he can’t rewrite laws, he makes up new laws through executive orders that far exceed his authority.
“Now, with no elections ahead to keep Obama in check, God only knows how he plans to complete America’s ‘transformation.’ And he has plenty of allies to help him.
“In the federal courts, Congress, the Washington bureaucracy and many state legislatures, a new political creed is gathering strength. They don’t see our country or Constitution as exceptional. They want to hand over America’s sovereignty, strength, and freedoms to their fantasy of a globalist, collectivist, one-world utopia.
“Instead of wishing other countries were more like America, they want to make us more like the rest of the world. Which means a lesser, weaker America. Less freedom. Less adherence to the principles this country was built upon. Less of everything that makes America the most profound expression of human freedom the world has ever known.
“Instead, they want more of what people come to America to escape — more taxes; more regulations; growing, self-serving government, and all the corruption and abuse that go with it.
“Too many politicians say their ends justify their means. But their means and objectives are exactly what America’s founders intended to reject and prevent.
“So if Obama and his allies succeed even further in their “transformation” over the next two years, the America we know and love may cease to exist.”
There. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Hence, the lengthy quote.
If you want to read all of LaPierre’s article, you can find it on page 50 of the February issue of American Rifleman.
Obviously, I hope you will take time to read it. No one is saying you have to agree with it.
Just process. Fit it into the context of President Obama’s behavior, attitude, decisions, and actions over the last six-plus years. Then tell me LaPierre doesn’t have legitimate concerns.
Oh, I know LaPierre has an ax to grind.
He is an important figure in one of the most essential lobbying organizations in the country, but he and all of us who belong to the NRA fear for the life of the Second Amendment, whose importance is secondary only to such rights as the freedom of press, speech, religion, and the right to collectively gather.
Having failed to gain much ground lately in the expunging of the Second Amendment, Leftist zealots are turning their sights to the states and to international pressures from such organizations as the United Nations.
They pretend their concerns lie with the safety of all, but I assure you their only real concern is political. A nation whose people can’t defend themselves is vulnerable to the excesses of motivated ideologues.
Everyone needs to be aware that when a handful of people seek to eliminate the rights and authority of the many,, there is a reason. The reason is they fear they can’t have the kind of power they thirst for without eliminating the ability to rebel.
The American colonies gained their freedom because they had the means to fight back and people willing to assert control over their own lives.
America was a gift given through sacrifice. It was for us. We have to take care of it.
Around the world today thugs with guns are forcing their will on those who don’t have the right to bear arms as we do. The results are enslavement as we see in areas of Africa and slaughter as we see in the Middle East.
It is sad that to feel safe we must be armed, but the world is what it is. Most social ills stem from the failure of politics, not from citizens with a rifle secured and knowledgeable in its use.
Larry W. Anderson believes this nation’s security depends on an alert citizenry.
