By Jim Irvine

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

So what does this have to do with your guns? Everything!

When we fight for CCW rights, the hunters don’t help. When we fight to protect hunting dollars, competition shooters don’t help. When we fight to fix transportation problems, those with CHL’s don’t help. When we don’t stand together, we fail separately.

Over 80,000 Ohio CHL’s have been issued.
Over 300,000 Ohio hunting licenses issued last year.
There are 3 million Ohio gun owners.

The media makes great claims about how much the NRA influences politics and legislation, but our screwed up confusing laws in Ohio are NOT the result of the NRA getting its way at every turn. They are the result of Ohio gun owners failing to work together. By working together, we have the numbers to not only influence the process, but to outright control it! That is one reason we are so feared by our enemies.

By John Longenecker

Grab a cup: this one’s a long one. The last in a series of four parts.

What exactly is law-abiding?

A lot of Americans may not want to admit this, but being law-abiding is a very private matter. For many of us, including myself, it is a matter of self respect, a community contribution, a solemnity that is not based on fear of punishment, but of personal values.

In this value, the law-abiding pay the price in tolerating a great deal of abuse and mistake, a great deal of intentional mischaracterization and of being ignored. Many officials fail to understand how the law-abiding keep the populace at peace more than the officials who write the laws.

Many officials go along with unreasonable laws in their inception because they fall for straw arguments of leftists who participate aggressively in the process. Consequently, family court judges fall for the argument that people shouldn’t be at the mercy of their vows, a concept marketed as compassion, or that allegations of violence and ‘controlling husbands’ must be true because of androgen versus estrogen – true enough to punish the husband and children – with below-standard criteria for evidence that would never meet the test in another legal matter.

Yet, we respect the law because, for most of us, it is a solemn value.

Law abiding is to be patient, tolerant and to go along with the law whether we like it or not. It is to believe in it as a solemn way of life – that word again – not a tool for gain. It is to share values of justice, due process, conformity and security in the knowledge that the law will be enforced evenly, fairly and consistently without abuses. And for the survival of the nation.

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