Change Has Come to America

Our government, to whom we were loyal, was changing. It was becoming increasingly oppressive of us, the governed.

Some of us lived in a city on the coast. One day, they tricked those of us there out of our arms -- and then their elite troops emerged from that city to seize the arms from the rest of us.

We knew that, once we were disarmed, there would be no end to their tyranny. So, reluctantly and apprehensively, yet with indignation and righteous anger, we picked up our arms, determined that our weapons would not be taken from us while we were still able to use them.

That decisive day, a series of events was set in motion, the results of which reverberate around the world, even to this day, now well more than two centuries later.

In the aftermath of the struggle that began that day, a new nation was born -- a nation that was conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the ideal that we are all created equal in the eyes of Him Who created us, and that we should all be equal before the law.

Our ideal, summarized in the document in which we declared our Independence from our oppressors, soon became codified in a new document, which was to be the supreme law of our great land.

While preserving our right to keep and bear arms, with an eye to defending all our rights against future tyrannies, our new Constitution was written by those who had endured struggle and oppression, and it was written to ensure that future struggles would be as peaceful as possible; so, our rights to freedom of speech and of assembly, our rights to be secure in our persons and our properties against unreasonable searches and seizures, our rights to participate democratically in a Republican form of government which is charged to guarantee those rights to all of our citizens -- these rights are backed up by one more right: the right to alter or abolish any government that becomes destructive of these, our rights, which were assigned to us by our Creator, and not by any earthly power.