** Watching Connecticut **

Connecticut citizens to turn in guns

This article contains a scanned copy of the letter being received by residents of Connecticut stating that they, personally, did not meet the deadline for registering their "assault weapons and/or large capacity magazines." As a consequence they are now directed to dismantle or in some way make the firearm inoperable and to do the same to the magazines. Or...they can sell the items to a licensed gun dealer or turn them in to their local police. Bottom line...the Governor of the State of Connecticut does not want residents of Connecticut to possess "assault rifles". I put the term in quotes because gun grabbing political figures call a lot of firearms "assault" weapons when what the FBI and the Military define as assault weapons are those that are Fully Automatic...only. Americans Can own fully automatic weapons but they Must apply for a special class 3 permit from the Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms, Alcohol and Explosives which is by no means an easy task to accomplish so..for the rest of us peasants it is Semi Automatic rifles down to single shot. The gun grabbers call any rifle that is decorated with black paint or black plastic accessories an assault weapon per Diane Feinstein or Barbara Boxer. 

Last month pictures were all over the internet of Connecticut residents standing in line to register their guns and America sighed. Today Connecticut residents (more than 90%) have NOT shown up to register nor have they mailed in the form. This is going to be a test of wills between the Government of Connecticut (Governor on down) and the residents of Connecticut as to who will back down first. I believe the Governor will allow Law Enforcement to knock in some doors to scare the rest of the sheep and in some cases bullets may fly. We can hope that cooler heads would prevail but if it doesn't happen here it will happen somewhere else in the near future. Tempers are growing shorter with every passing week we learn of Government mishandling of funds, of projects which negatively impact the people of that state (the unemployed in particular) and more and more talk from the media of how patriotism is bad because of blah blah blah...etc.

This situation is important and I wait to see if the Mainstream media will cover this situation at all or will they talk more about Michelle Obama going off somewhere again to spend millions of our tax dollars on another vacation to get over the fact that hubby did another selfy and posted it to facebook. The media wants to paint us a picture of imaginary things and turn our attention and focus from how our elected leaders are tearing our country and our ability to worship, to live and to grow from our grasp. Only a closed and dead mind would cling to the notion that All of Society must live in a certain way, believe in a certain way and love in a certain way or those who disagree must be re-programmed. I consider them cowards and haters of freedom, liberty and Godly living. Jesus told us already in His own words that He did not come to re-write the Law of God but to fulfill it. He told us He is like a two edged sword splitting bone from marrow. Separating father from son, mother from daughter and on down the family tree - why? - because as human beings each of us individually will at some point in our life decide who we are and how we will live out our existence on this planet, that is the power and purpose of free will. Jesus knew and accepted as we should accept that not all would choose Him and His ways of life. Many of us know family or friends who have many differences from ourselves and we may or may not accept that but when a person chooses differently from the ways of God (listed and noted in the Bible) then they make a choice of eternal consequences. 

I am not for people to be carbon copies of one another but I also believe God gives us room to live out His commandments in different ways but the end result is that we live to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves. A society that chooses to embrace and welcome pedophiles and living in the ways of self gratification and of love of material things has already walked away from God's commandments. The first four of the Ten Commandments outline for us how we are to live out our relationship with God our Father and the six remaining commandments explain how to live out our faithfulness to God with our neighbor (family, friends and strangers). Occasionally we all will fall down on at least one of these commandments and God's law states that to break one commandment is reason for death so what is a person to do? Enter in Jesus who came to accept our faults and failures before God and with us accepting His passion and death as payment for our mistakes (sin ) He has guaranteed for us eternal life with Him and our Heavenly Father for all time. An exchange of sorts that God has allowed and ordained and guaranteed for all eternity if we drop our pride and humble ourselves to ask Him for forgiveness and mercy. I challenge you to consider the ways of this world right now and ask yourself if you can see the separation of society, of culture and morals. If so then you now see the separation Jesus speaks about, this is why family or friends would be torn apart because the ways of the world feed that fleshly mentality and the ways of Jesus, the ways he listened and loved others, the ways he loved God the Father and the extent He went to so as to guarantee our acceptance into God's eternal Kingdom are not about material items or pleasures but more about love, a love that cannot be bought or sold, therefore it will be forever, unchanged.

How does this all fit into what is going on in Connecticut you now ask? Good question and I will give my interpretation: a government that will not allow me a way to defend my life or that of my family does not trust me to do the right thing for the right reason. That government does not have regard for my life or the lives of my family and would rather leave me exposed and vulnerable to the evils that you and I both know exist everywhere in this world. Secondly if a man is not respected enough to allow him to live how he sees fit and to follow God how he believes he should without doing any harm to anyone else, that man is not living in a world where the fact that he was created and exists is not being appreciated and he is not seen as an equal in the sight of God as one of His creation but rather he is seen as a subject or servant who's master(s) have stripped him of his rights as an individual and a complete creation of God. That to me is what the founders of this country were stating in the Declaration of Independence,

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and happiness."


Our founders recognized the importance and necessity of including God in the equation and through the eyes of faith chose to see each and every individual as a single creation of Almighty God and therefore “fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Psalm 139:14

New International Version (NIV)

¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.

I will not debate on the theology of the founders but rather point out they recognized the importance of God in their life and ours and the life of this country.

There is a segment of society growing more every day that has lost sight of this and has chosen to remain blind to it and without this predisposed position of how to view ourselves and each other we are turning into the Republic of China or Russia where the people living there are subjects or slaves, they have no unalienable rights but rather permissions granted them by the person in charge at that moment. The Governor of Connecticut is beginning to view his constituents as subjects and not as fearfully and wonderfully made creations whom are the property of the one who made them…God Almighty. The Governor and his people (team) are losing respect for people and seeing them as sheep and are moving to oppress them to the point of removing their means of self protection, possibly by force which will change Connecticut residents to servants or subjects and not free men and women under God.

 There is a separation coming and we see it before our eyes. It will not be avoided because this is something God The Father and Jesus through the Holy Spirit set in motion over 2000 years ago and what was begun by His hand will be fulfilled. Brace yourselves and choose today which house you will serve, as for me and my house we will serve the Lord God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth and in doing so I recognize my brother and sister of creation as having the unalienable right to defend themselves or their loved ones and not be dependent or enslaved to any government agency for such a thing because the loyalties of that agency can and could change with the shift of the wind leaving people vulnerable and helpless in the face of true evil, that is a heartless way to treat anyone. Jesus reminded the rich man and He reminds us of the two greatest commandments of all; “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.” Let us pray the Governor of Connecticut comes to his senses and chooses to love his constituents instead of ruling over them.