Protect What Makes Us Strong!
When it comes to fighting for what is right, nothing changes much over time. Fifty years ago, the March 1963 issue of Guns magazine carried an article by James Serven titled "Protect What Makes Us Strong!" The first page of the article displayed a cartoon, by Vaughn Shoemaker, that had appeared in syndication sometime earlier in the decade. The cartoon pictured a Bible alongside a gun; the Bible was labeled "Faith of Our Fathers," and the gun was labeled "Courage of Our Fathers." The title of the cartoon, "WE NEED THEM BOTH."
A half century later, we still do!
Serven began his article with the reminder of an old saying that "you can insure against loss by fire and theft, but you can't insure against loss by legislation." He went on to point out there are, however, steps that can be taken to prevent or mitigate the loss by legislation. One of those steps, an absolutely necessary one, is to learn the truth about the issues, and another is to let our legislators know our opinion on the issues. As Serven pointed out, "Many unwise proposals have been enacted into law because a majority of the lawmakers were misinformed." Who is really to blame for that?
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