Editorial

Freedom through Strength.

A free people will be prosperous.  But prosperity invariably attracts greediness from predators.  The Founding Fathers felt gratitude to God for the United States, therefore, they felt a responsibility to defend it.  They knew the country could be forever preserved if it remained a virtuous and adequately armed nation. That is why they made sure the second amendment was part of the constitution.
Benjamin Franklin exclaimed, "One sword often keeps another in its scabbard."
 However, the founders did not intend for the country to go to war for any reason but self-defense.  Thomas Paine wrote,  "Not all the treasure in the world could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder, but if a thief breaks into my house . . . am I to suffer it?"
The Founders passed on to their posterity a policy of peace through strength.  They were peace loving, they were not pacifists.
Just as it was then that Freedom and unalienable rights had to be defended it remains today, our freedom and unalienable rights must be defended.
  The Founders were familiar with these words which had been written 400 years earlier by Scots in their own Declaration after the Wars of Independence:  "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting, but for freedom for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
We need to stand together now and defend our country and our freedom and our second amendment rights to protect ourselves.