Our children are murdered at a rate early Americans couldn’t have imagined.Our Constitution holds that Domestic Tranquility, Common Defense and The General Welfare are non-negotiable goals.

A docile, limp-dick surrender to unregulated gun violence isn’t mentioned.

A school shooter with AR-15 technology can fire more rounds in a minute than a colonial minuteman could muster in a hour.

The Founders trusted us with the power to change outdated laws that threaten our lives and those of our children — we’ve amended our Constitution twenty-seven times.

They prayed we would inherit their Yankee ingenuity, and that we’d show the gumption a free republic needs to survive. Unfortunately those virtues seem to have skipped a generation or two.

Our children will do better.

Pat Shiplett

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