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Introduction to World Thinking, by Phil Shiflett

As homo sapiens-sapiens has subdued Terra with ever advancing technology, it has continually used government to murder and enslave its own kind.  No organization in history has used firearms to kill more innocent people than government.

It would seem strange then that many would allow only governments to have firearms.

Why are we faced with this irrational concept?

If you or I were to Murder, we would be deprived of firearms for life by law.  Yet we find the US Government, an organization that has supported slavery, theft of land and outright murder of it's indigenous population still allowed by its citizens to keep arms.

One would think that by now we'd have learned that government is the one organization that is too dangerous to be armed.  Certainly the people that founded this country realized this.  George Washington in his writings advised against the keeping of a standing army and Eisenhower in more recent times iterated in his warning on the hazards the Military-Industrial complex.  

On the other hand, it is a dangerous world, and as long as government exists anywhere, we'll probably be faced with it in the US as a counter to external mischief.  It would seem then not just our duty but in our best interests to find out how to best govern ourselves and keep our freedom from being abused by those who hate it.

So, this portion of the site is dedicated to educating people on the past, present and future of how governments try to abridge the individual's right to keep and bear arms.

The site opens with a quote and a poem, the former by a mass murderer and the latter from gentle soul.  Both men realized that the firearm is a means to an end. It is up to us to determine which philosophy will triumph, that of the Individual or that of the State.

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."  Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China.

"Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938), Selected Works,  Vol. II, p. 224.

The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, or leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.

                                                            Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United nations does not recognize an individual's right to keep and bear arms.

Of the rights outlined by the declaration, ...Article 29, clause 3, says it all on the subject of world power.

Article 29,  (3) "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."

UN Web Site

Safety is not just the  Number One Issue, It is THE  MORAL ISSUE!

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