What an interesting and challenging year 2020 has been and continues to be. Life definitely doesn’t look the way it did this time last year. There is so much uncertainty right now, there is no way of telling how long we will be adjusting our ways of life going forward. America has always been resilient and right now, we need to be mindful of the fact that, throughout our history, the American citizen has always paved the way and set the example for everyone else.
Tim Schmidt, the president and editor of a gun rights organization and its magazine, and his colleagues write, “The outlaw didn’t make this nation:he hindered its development. It was not the outlaw who tilled the land or felled the timber or plumber the cities. it was not the outlaw who rang the school bells, or manned the fire brigades or paved the streets. It was not the outlaw who healed the sick or raised the children.
It was the responsible women and men of this country - who often had to go about armed in defense against the outlaw - who made this country what it is today, and in that sense little has changed. In the face of those who did nothing but victimize and take, the responsible woman and man protected and gave. The fundamentally civilized rose up against and responded to the fundamentally uncivilized.
Never forget that we, The United States of America, are a unique, civilized nation of law-abiding individuals.”
indeed, we are.
I BELIEVE
I believe that most people are inherently good.
I believe, when given a chance, most people will do the right thing.
I believe that most Americans will do anything for their family.
I believe that true Americans love their country.
I believe in GOD
I believe that opportunity is usually disguised as hard work.
I believe that the free enterprise system is a gift from God.
I believe that the ability to forgive and forget will set you free.
I believe that the harder you work, the luckier you get.
I believe in Liberty
I believe in choosing to be happy.
I believe in accepting responsibility for everything that happens to me.
I believe that every challenge or obstacle is and opportunity to become a better person.
I believe that life can be tough, but at the end of the day, life is what you make of it.
I believe in my family.
I believe that evil exists, it just does.
I believe it is my responsibility to protect all that is good from all that is bad.
I believe in preparing for the worst while expecting the best.
I believe in the natural-born and inalienable right to self protection.
I believe that the man or woman who shirks his or her duty to defend and protect simply doesn’t understand his or her true responsibility as a God-fearing and freedom-loving American.
I believe in myself
I believe that a gun cannot be good or bad, it is simply a tool.
I believe that the Founders of our country liberated themselves, their families and their country from tyranny with these tools we call guns and thus started the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever seen.
I believe the statistics that tell us responsibly armed, law-abiding Americans use guns every day to defend themselves and their loved ones.
I believe in being peaceful and avoiding conflict at all costs.
But when that conflict comes after me and pushes me into a corner, I believe in fighting as if the lives of my children and loved ones depend on it…because they do.
This is what I believe.
borrowed from Tim Schmidt.