Posted yesterday in the Professional Soldiers website:
"We are current or former Army Reserve, National Guard, and active duty US Army
Special Forces soldiers (Green Berets). We have all taken an oath to “...support
and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and
domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.…” The
Constitution of the United States is without a doubt the single greatest
document in the history of mankind, codifying the fundamental principle of
governmental power and authority being derived from and granted through the
consent of the governed. Our Constitution established a system of governance
that preserves, protects, and holds sacrosanct the individual rights and primacy
of the governed as well as providing for the explicit protection of the governed
from governmental tyranny and/or oppression. We have witnessed the insidious and
iniquitous effects of tyranny and oppression on people all over the world. We
and our forebears have embodied and personified our organizational motto, De
Oppresso Liber [To Free the Oppressed], for more than a half century as we have
fought, shed blood, and died in the pursuit of freedom for the
oppressed.
Like you, we are also loving and caring fathers and
grandfathers. Like you, we have been stunned, horrified, and angered by the
tragedies of Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Fort Hood, and Sandy Hook; and
like you, we are searching for solutions to the problem of gun-related crimes in
our society. Many of us are educators in our second careers and have a special
interest to find a solution to this problem. However, unlike much of the current
vox populi reactions to this tragedy, we offer a different perspective."
Read the rest, it is very well worth it.
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