Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander

according to Jefferson.
    Jefferson also warned us to make sure we maintain our right to bear arms. He said, “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” Jefferson was telling us, “Boys, make sure you keep your guns.” In a democracy, the strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny.
    Jefferson was one of our first presidents, so you’d think the first thing he’d want to do is confiscate everyone’s guns. But he actually said the opposite and believed that if things ever went south, the people were going to need their guns. That’s pretty serious talk, but that’s what Jefferson said. Washington agreed with him and basically said firearms are America’s liberty teeth. In his first message to Congress on the State of the Union on January 8, 1790, Washington said, “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined.” Do you see their point? It’s by the people, for the people, Jack!
    John Adams, our second president, said, “Statesmen . . . may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.” Adams told us that if we don’t have God in our lives and aren’t morally righteous, we’re going to lose it all. That’s where we are now, and I fear that’s what’s fixing to happen.
    Now we can’t figure out what’s wrong with America’s youth. Our children are plagued by violence, alcohol, drug abuse, teenage pregnancies out of wedlock, and high dropout rates. Well, Noah Webster, who is considered the father of American education, basically believed that the Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields. In his History of the United States, Webster wrote, “The most perfect maxims and examples of regulating your social conduct and domestic economy, as well as the best rules of morality and religion, are to be found in the Bible.” Webster must have been a pretty intelligent guy, because I’m still using a Webster’s Dictionary ! But we’re not even allowed to start the school day with a prayer or have a Bible in a classroom. Webster believed you had to vet everything through the Bible. We got away from it and now we’re paying the price. We should have listened to Webster.

    Webster must have been a pretty intelligent guy, because I’m still using a ‘Webster’s Dictionary!’

    What are we going to do with our youth? How are we going to reduce crime? How are we going to prevent our children from having babies? What are we going to do? The only solution our government can come up with nowadays is to pour more money into our problems and research solutions. Webster said what we need to do is put the Bible back where it ought to be. I’m right there with him!
    Without the Bible as a blueprint for living our lives, I’m not surprised to see our country struggling so mightily. Romans 1:28–32 says:
    Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents, they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
    The apostle Paul was writing about the Roman Empire, but he might as well have been talking about present-day America. We fought Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990s, and then we continued to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq for more than a decade to weed out terrorists. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, we lost nearly seven thousand brave soldiers during those wars. But there’s a bigger war going on in America. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over sixteen thousand people were murdered in the United States in 2010. While a good chunk of our firepower was in the Middle East trying to get a handle on terrorism, we werelosing an even bigger war right here in the good ol’ USA. Sadly, our children are the ones doing a lot of the killing.
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