by Jen Shroder 1/16/13
It was 2
a.m., raining hard and my Dolphin motorhome was leaking. I was a
college kid with 18 hour days of school, work and racquetball, so it
made sense to live in a motor home. It worked out well until the
dripping began, so I found shelter at a strangely lit, abandoned gas
station. I climbed on top of my motorhome equipped with a tube of
silicone to fix the leak. There was a busy street in the distance, I
felt safe to think I was visible to passing motorists but I grabbed my
grandpa’s old Remington handgun just the same. Half way through my
repair, a man appeared under the light below me and approached my
ladder with a menacing look in his eye. I told him to back off but he
kept coming. I pulled out my gun, aimed right at him and repeated my
orders. He froze and then quickly slinked off into the dark.
I read an article claiming weapons are rarely used in
defense. On the contrary, it happens all the time. Was my story
newsworthy? Would the camera crews roll up, microphones in hand? Did
the world want to know exactly how close he came, how I held my gun
and the puddle he left behind? Oh what a fascinating puddle, let’s
splash THAT all over the six o’clock news. No, my story is common, no
blood, no headlines, but without God and my gun, I’m fairly certain
I’d be just another missing person or dead body turning up. How many
women were spared such an ending but didn’t report it?
Another time I found myself walking a dark street,
alone in a big city late at night, looking for a restaurant to catch
up with my buddies. We were all unfamiliar with the area as we played
racquetball tournaments all over the state. My last match went late
into the night so I was trying to catch up to friends. Directions were
hasty, the road was closed for construction, but I could see the
restaurant a block away so I parked and walked past the equipment. A
couple of men came out of the shadows and started trailing me. I stuck
my hand in my purse and gripped the handle of my gun, was about to
pull it but they seemed to read the move and suddenly stopped,
muttered to each other and turned around. Criminals seem to be very
astute at measuring their prey.
Is this newsworthy? No, but just because it’s not
sensational doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. We live in a dangerous
world with a false sense of security. The news will highlight ONE case
of a missing person when there are tens of thousands missing under
criminal or suspicious circumstances. Home invasions seem to be on the
rise, but how would we know if we depend on the news?
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and
bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against
tyranny in government" -- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson
Papers, 334
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is
inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at
all times armed." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. ME
16:45
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that
they be properly armed." -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist
Papers at 184-188
As this is our forefather’s intent, then we should be
able to attain as much artillery as our military! As our legislators
argue over what new restrictions to impose, I demand LESS! Taking guns
away from law-abiding citizens is only going to VICTIMIZE law abiding
citizens. When someone is shooting at you, you do not throw down your
guns!
Anti-gun politicians naively ask, "What does anyone
need automatic guns for?" Do they really not realize the affront our
government has become? The 2nd Amendment is already
infringed, Pelosi laughs at the thought of adhering to the
Constitution, Obama calls it a "negative charter of liberties" as he
positions his executive pen, and an awakening America remembers what
happens in emerging communist countries after people’s guns are taken
away.
If we don’t need ID to vote, why do we need ID to
purchase guns? If $6 to provide proof of citizenship impedes a
person’s right to vote, then why doesn’t gun fees and licenses impede
their right to bear arms? In fact, if we MUST provide Sandra Fluke her
condoms, then I demand our government provide my ammo!
And yet.
I urge you, America, do not fight. We may have every
legal reason to pick up arms and fight, but be at peace. When our
founding fathers prayed and beseeched God for help, there was a future
for America, a purpose. For generations we have been a Light on the
hill, we have blanketed the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. No
other nation has sent out as many missionaries and charities in His
name as America has. God had a purpose for us and gave us the
opportunity to serve His Kingdom. But what has America become? For
what purpose are we asking to be blessed? That Christians in other
nations would continue to be brutally slaughtered as we fawn over Kim
Kardashian? Slave markets, torture, the blood of the saints
continually spilled while we, in America, care nothing except for our
own pleasure? We are told to tolerate, our schools write in their
standards to teach our children to compromise on everything, that
there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, we throw down all
understanding of God’s heavenly Kingdom to trample it with secular
humanism, applauding multiculturalists like Karen Armstrong who writes
that "religion is manmade" in our textbooks and has set out to prove
conclusively that Christianity is "bonkers" while applauding Islam. We
pollute our children with made up fantasies that we evolved from
primordial goo randomly, insist they repeat it as fact, warp their
minds to atheist beliefs and then ask that the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob bless our cause to regain this perversion called freedom?
That modern America can continue on this path of inflicting the
butcher of the unborn worldwide? That we can continue to spread
pornography, homosexuality, Christian persecution in all four
directions around the globe? What America has become in the past ten
or twenty years, is that what we are asking God to uphold?
God told us through the prophets what is to come that
we would believe and many of us have recognized the slow turn of the
wheels which have begun. I believe we are being divided by the angels
as they separate the wheat from the tares or weeds, indeed as they
bundle the weeds for (future tense) burning (Matthew
13:30), but as is common in the Bible, it happens much more slowly
than we expect. Did you wonder how we all seem to be so blind and deaf
to each other’s point of view, wonder how the other side cannot see
what is obvious? I contend, this is why! They are being blinded as
their time runs out, the separation is becoming distinct, depraved
minds are falling deeper into their own depravity and they can’t even
comprehend they are falling.
And so our nation has fallen into decline. It is like
we are all in a boat and certain ones among us insisted on boring
holes in the bottom of that boat. We will all pay the consequences as
we sink but God will not forget His own. When hunger comes, when chaos
and thieving and unmitigated murder begins, we are to defend our
families, our guns will be of use in the face of chaos, we are to have
a sword! But just as there was a purpose for Christ laying down His
life, when the law against Christians becomes the law of the land, we
are to survive the chaos that we can then lay down our lives and give
glory to God. For that we will be persecuted and killed. Some will
wonder, "Where is God" but God is right here! Submit! Not to evil, but
to God! Recognize that the end times are and will be upside down, that
evil will be called good and good, evil; that much of what God told us
is happening slowly. But have faith! Let not your heart be troubled
for we were told of these things!
We will not win America back. Our choices will be: will we pick up our
cross and follow Him or will we pick up arms and attempt to fight for
a continuation of the liberal perversion of freedom, leaving a trail
of blood behind us? Will we lay down our lives in the name of Christ?
Saints, I think America has run it’s course, and praise God for His
blessing upon our nation that has brought so many worldwide to His
Kingdom. Many of us are not ready to stop fighting for the cause, but
I urge you, consider what that cause today truly is.
I will not fight to finance worldwide abortion
mills, homosexuality, pedophilia, pornography, child slavery and
everything that evil men have twisted "freedom" to mean. We have
been corrupted from within and a darkness is coming, evil will
appear to prevail but it will not succeed. We cannot fight this one
world government that has already been laid out. We need to realize
that it was foretold and keep faith. Hold your lamp high that all
around you can see because your neighbors will need help in the
coming days.
