Media Threats

Chaos is at our Door: Why a dangerous world is closing in. (Part 4 of 5)

When you consider all the threats encroaching on our country, one fact is clear: We live in an age when preparing to survive whatever comes our way is a simple fact of life (or death). It’s simply the most prudent way to survive. Prudent leaders prepare their nation. Prudent people prepare themselves.

And millions of NRA members and gun owners know the truth: The police can’t always be there to protect you. The government can’t, or won’t, protect you, either. Only you can protect you.

And nothing provides individual citizens more immediate, undeniable and irreplaceable protection than the Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms. It’s the one freedom that guarantees our lives and our freedoms with force. It’s the one thing we can count on to protect ourselves when nothing else will or even can.

Now, you can bet the media will pounce upon and ridicule gun owners for talking about these dangers and preparing for the worst. They’ll call us paranoid, fear-mongering, reckless and ill-advised. They did the same thing after Sandy Hook, when the NRA said that shielding our schools with police or certified trained armed security was the only proven method to protect them.

Since then, schools everywhere have done exactly what we suggested. They’re giving their kids the first deterrent and last failsafe defense against armed madmen who murder without fear. Because they understand, as we all understand, that there are surely more madmen out there, planning their attacks on the most vulnerable among us, even now.

We were right, history proves it, and the American people know it. Men and women who care about their safety will never let themselves be shamed, ridiculed or accused of being “unreasonable” for defending their God-given right to defend life and limb.

We’ve proven it over and over again, and we’ll do it again on Election Day. So let this be a declaration to America’s leaders: You have no right, no reason and no authority to deny us the protection that the Second Amendment alone guarantees.

We will not be left defenseless. We will not give up our freedoms. We will not surrender our safety to the lies of leaders who promise everything and deliver nothing. We will defend our right to defend ourselves because we have no other choice. We will vote our guns! We will vote our freedom! And we will prevail!