Liberty Maven

Sometimes a video comes along that must be shared. This is one of those videos. The Reverand Ken Blanchard delivers a sermon on freedom, liberty, and the 2nd amendment in a Youtube video. As a new gun owner I can’t describe the feeling you get while exercising your 2nd Amendment rights, even in the safe environs of a shooting range. The best way I can come close to describing it is that you feel empowered. Empowered to protect yourself, family, friends, and strangers if the situation calls for it.

While I practiced and preached my own right to not own a gun for most of my life, recently I became a new gun owner. As I become more acquainted with firearms I’m starting to believe that owning and knowing how to operate a gun is a political declaration. The open carry of a firearm is like holding up a sign in public that reads: I demand to be free. Of course, many self defense experts will preach using concealment as the preferred method of carrying a self-defense weapon. With concealment you have the element of surprise and you are not advertising yourself as a “first target” for a would-be attacker. Still others argue that openly displaying a firearm can be a deterrent in itself. I suppose it all depends on the attacker’s state of mind.

Enough of my yammering… watch the excellent Rev. Blanchard below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o86JTxJ9myU