 Minuteman Monthly Newsletter Issue 71 June 2007 |
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Welcome to this issue of the Minuteman Monthly Newsletter. This is the monthly communication from my Web site at www.SaveTheGuns.com. Thank you for reading this month's issue and for passing it on to a friend. Have you heard about a young man named Jeff May? If not, I'm not surprised. The media has largely ignored this modern day hero. He was voted Hero of the Year for 2006 by Reader's Digest and their subscribers. Some people estimate that he personally saved as many as twelve lives on March 21,2005, but because what he did was not "politically correct", the media ignored him. Read on... SaveTheGuns.com Quotes of the Month "Whenever government assumes to deliver us
from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are
those of torpor [mental dullness] and imbecility."
"For what avail the plough or sail,
or land or life, if freedom fail?"
"The fifth and last auxiliary right of the subject, that I shall at present mention, is that of having arms for their defense, suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law. Which is also declared by the same statute I W. & M. st.2. c.2. and is indeed a public allowance, under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression."
"... liberty cannot be established without morality,
nor morality without faith."
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
"Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." SaveTheGuns.com Gun Safety Tip of the Month Do not think that you're protecting your children and grandchildren by making firearms a kind of forbidden fruit. Just as Adam and Eve's curiosity was piqued concerning the Tree of Life and the apples that hung from it in the Garden of Eden, if firearms are treated as if they are forbidden fruit, it's likely that your children or grandchildren will seek out the guns when they think nobody is keeping watch over them. I have always taught that it is a much better thing to gun-proof your children than to child-proof your guns. But some degree of a combination of these two things should play a role in your home. Guns locked up in a combination safe, which are unloaded will be of no use in an emergency and having a loaded firearm fully visible on the living room coffee table is not the best approach either. Involve your children, take them to the range if they seem interested. Have them participate in cleaning and oiling the guns as well. Get them a Junior Membership to the National Rifle Association for only $15.00. It might be the best fifteen bucks you've ever spent. Giving a Junior NRA Membership as a gift to a child for $15.00 takes less then ten minutes and here's the convenient link that you need right here! http://membership.nrahq.org/default.asp?campaignid=XR017807
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Minuteman Monthly Newsletter Aiming Point The Reader's Digest made Jeff May Hero of the Year in 2006. He was selected from many deserving individuals by subscribers of the popular magazine. The reason that I'm telling you about him today is for two reasons. First, almost nobody has even heard about him or what he earned Hero of the Year for. Secondly, it's related to the last issue of the Minuteman Monthly Newsletter concerning the horrible and inexcusable shooting at Virginia Tech University in April. On March 21, 2005, almost two years before the Virginia Tech shooting, there was another school shooting that you might recall. It was in Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota. A student by the name of Jeffrey Weise made the pathetically stupid decision to bring two handguns and a shotgun to school and shoot the place up. He planned upon killing himself when he was finished. Obviously the gun-free zones law that Congress passed didn't concern him. Jeff May, our hero, is an Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indian. Jeff is not a school administrator. Jeff was not a law enforcement officer. Jeff was not even an adult. Jeff May was a fifteen year old high school sophomore. The story of Jeff Weise, the shooter, was a tragic one indeed. His father committed suicide in 1997 and his mother was in a nursing home because of a car accident. The shooter Jeff Weise was practically raising himself as some have told. He always wore a black trench coat just like the shooters at Columbine high school. He had been kicked out of school and had not attended school at Red Lake High School for several months. He was a bullied loner and was into horror films, Nazis and zombie movies. He was being raised by his grandfather who was a police officer with the Indian Reservation that they lived on. With nearly no guidance in his short life, the warning signs about this kid were pretty clear. He even made Macromedia Flash animations of mass murders with firearms and posted them on the Web. These videos he created were disturbing at best. In each of the Macromedia Flash animations he created, the shooter committed suicide at the end. The warning signs were numerous to say the least. On that horrible morning of March 21, 2005, Jeff Weise killed his grandfather who was a police officer from the Indian reservation and his female companion. Then he went to Red Lake High School and killed the unarmed security guard posted at the school. After that he killed a teacher and five students. Then he entered the room where our hero, Jeff May was learning math and doing algebra problems at his desk. When he saw what was happening and fully realized the desperate moment as Jeff Weise entered his classroom and began shooting, he took quick and decisive action. He rose from his seat and physically attacked Jeff Weise, who was reportedly quite a big kid for his age. May tried to stab Weise with a pencil that he had been using, but it was halted by the bullet proof vest that Weise was wearing, that belonged to the Indian reservation police department and belonged to his now dead grandfather. Jeff May tried to hold Weise pinned down to the classroom floor, but got shot in the face during the struggle. It was just then that police officers arrived and in a stand-off with police, Weise killed himself with one of the three guns he was carrying. It was estimated by a school official that Jeff May could have prevented an additional twelve victims from getting shot by Weise. But because valiant acts of self defense are ignored by the mainstream media, most Americans only got the story on March 21st that there was another tragic school shooting. Jeff May has endured many months of rehabilitation and surgeries due to being shot in the face by the killer student. Nothing is more American than witnessing a terrible wrong like the one committed by Weise and taking courageous and decisive action to stop it. Now the question to the mainstream media remain... Why did the mainstream media ignore this young man's heroic acts in the presence of such peril? Why does the mainstream media and the entertainment industry continue to completely ignore the estimated 4,000 to 6,000 times a day that Americans defend themselves with firearms? Why in media circles, left-leaning newspapers and liberal controlled television programs, are courageous acts of self defense censored and ignored? What kind of country have we become when students who cower and defecate in their pants at the first sign of a firearm are remembered as heroes, while those who attempted to bring the shooter down and control him are ignored? How great would a prime-time television show be if it focused solely upon the incidents of successful self defense? If you're an NRA member, I know that one of your favorite sections in the magazine is the Armed Citizen section. I know that I always make a point to read them. Self defense is a right of all human beings. Everyone has the G-d-given right to defend themselves when their lives are threatened. When an innocent man or woman successfully defends themselves in the face of mortal danger, it should be celebrated, rather than buried or ignored. It's never a good thing to be forced to kill someone in self defense. But to cover-up and censor stories of self defense is inexcusable in my opinion. Thank God I Had A Gun "There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice; not by instruction but by natural intuition: I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right." Closing Comments Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read the Minuteman Monthly Newsletter. I encourage you to pass it on. You may use this newsletter as you see fit. You may post it, blog it, print it, forward it and publish it. The only thing I ask is that somewhere in your material, make sure the URL www.SaveTheGuns.com appears prominently. Thanks, |
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