“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? … If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”

–Patrick Henry

I had a jumpseat rider on our recent flight from KLIT to KATL – he had to share this sign with me & I thought I’d pass it along!

Pastor Earl Blackburn pastors an ARBCA church in Shreveport – I love his comment to the press!

Church Security Incident-Three Men Bust Into Church and Disrupt Services

Church Security Incident-Three men burst into two seperate churches this past Sunday yelling, “God is dead!” The incident caused a disruption and they were escorted out by church members.

It was a situation that caused fear for church members.

Shreveport Police say the man first ran into the Heritage Baptist Church at Kirby Street and Creswell Avenue, yelling ‘God is dead,’ and a few other things, before getting escorted out.

“I thought it was humorous in the sense that if there’s no God why spend so much of your time trying to disprove that which doesn’t exist,” said Heritage Baptist Church Pastor Earl Blackburn.

The suspects repeated the offense again just a mile away at First Baptist Church of Shreveport.

“It was right in the middle of service. He just came in and started screaming about God isn’t real and it’s all fake, it’s all a lie,” said church member Michael Morales.

from http://churchsecuritymember.com/

By the way, do you know that in Georgia it is not legal for lawful gun owners to have a gun in church? Criminals and other disturbed individuals know this but usually don’t care much for the law!

Sep 4, 9:51 PM (ET)

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania history buff who recreates firearms
from old wars accidentally fired a 2-pound cannonball through the wall of
his neighbor’s home. William Maser, 54, fired a cannonball Wednesday evening
outside his home in Georges Township that ricocheted and hit a house 400
yards away. The cannonball, about two inches in diameter, smashed through a
window and a wall before landing in a closet. Authorities said nobody was
hurt.

State police charged Maser with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and
disorderly conduct.

No one answered the phone Friday at Maser’s home. He told WPXI-TV recreating
19th century cannons is a longtime hobby. He said he is sorry and he will
stop shooting them on his property, about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

“We will always remember.

We will always be proud.

We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.”

D-Day Commemoration in Normandy, France, June 6, 1984

-Excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s speech

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.

It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,

or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children

what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, March 30, 1961

-excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s speech