If you can read this, thank a gun owner

Father’s Day.

Mother’s Day.

Gun Owner’s Day??

Why not? Does this Nation not owe it’s very existence to private citizens who owned private firearms? It was from the barrel of a private citizen’s rifle that the “shot heard round the world” was discharged. It is the armed citizen to whom we all, as Americans, owe our very lives. Is there anyone with an IQ greater than their age who thinks Japan would not have invaded these shores if not for the fact that, as General Yamamoto said, “there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass”

What about our own government? Are there any left who are so naive or optimistic who believe that if not for the sheer numbers of privately held arms in this country that “the vote” would still decide who goes to Washington? This is the reason for the 2nd Amendment. To those who call themselves adults who would disagree: Get real. If not for the oft-maligned gun owner, Freedom as we know it (and as diminished as it may now be) would be a fading memory.

It’s time Jane and Joe Public acknowledged that. It’s time they thanked us for their children not growing up under any number of murderous regimes that would likely rise from the ashes of a nation with no more private firearms or private firearm owners. This is the gamble the Utopian Citizen Disarmament crowd won’t tell you about...."get behind citizen disarmament and we’ll all live happily ever after. Promise." Screw that noise.

It’s hard to prove an outcome that thankfully hasn’t happened yet, and may never happen. But in every corner of this world, where the recipe is a disarmed citizenry and an armed government, the cold meal served is Genocide. This is not hyperbole, it is reality.

If you can read this, thank a gun owner.