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My Reasons...

There are any number of reasons that I go armed. On occasion I have been asked about it, so I thought I might set forth just a few of those reasons.

First, I go armed, because it is my God-given, unalienable right as a man. The Scriptures confirm the right of self-defense time and again. In particular, our Lord instructed His disciples to arm themselves. It was such a priority that He told them to sell their coats, if need be, to procure those arms.

Luke 22:36 
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Second, I go armed because it is my duty as a husband, a father and a grandfather to protect my family to the utmost of my ability.

1 Timothy 5:8  
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

According to Strong, the word translated provide, literally means: “to consider in advance, that is, look out for beforehand.”

This includes more than just financial provision, by necessity it includes their security, safety and general well-being.

My wife, my grown children and my grandchildren see me go armed almost all of the time. They know that I am doing all that I can to guard them and our well-being. I have considered “in advance” what might be necessary for their protection and have made provision for it.

Third, and partially an outgrowth of the previous point, I go armed as an example and encouragement to others.

I want to encourage my family, our church members, and my friends and acquaintances to go armed, not only by my words, but by my actions.

Philippians 3:16-17  
Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

Fourth, I go armed because there are evil men that would do me or mine harm.

Mark 3:27  
No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.

Can anyone read the paper or watch the news and not realize that we live in a wicked and sin-cursed world. We must be prepared to face wicked men.

Most of you may remember the August 15, 2012 incident that occurred at the Family Research Council in Washington, DC. According to the tagline on their web site header, the Council stands for “the advancement of faith, family and freedom.”

Recently the shooter in that incident pled guilty to the charges brought against him and the FRC made the following news release that pretty much speaks for itself:

Shooter Used Southern Poverty Law Center's Website to Identify FRC as Target

FRC's Tony Perkins again calls on SPLC to Stop Reckless Labeling of Christian Organizations

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Earlier today, Floyd Lee Corkins, II, pleaded guilty to three charges including a District of Columbia charge of committing an act of terrorism. The charges stem from the August 15, 2012 shooting at the Family Research Council's headquarters.

Today's hearing also revealed that in the interview with the FBI right after the shooting, the shooter admitted his guilt, which was captured on video.  He said he intended to "kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims' faces, and kill the guard." The prosecutor said they reviewed the family computer and found that he identified his targets on the Southern Poverty Law Center's web site. 

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins offered the following reaction:

"The day after Floyd Corkins came into the FRC headquarters and opened fire wounding one of our team members, I stated that while Corkins was responsible for the shooting, he had been given a license to perpetrate this act of violence by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center which has systematically and recklessly labeled every organization with which they disagree as a 'hate group.' 

"Today both assertions were validated in court as Corkins plead guilty to multiple criminal charges, including terrorism.

"The Southern Poverty Law Center can no longer say that it is not a source for those bent on committing acts of violence.  Only by ending its hate labeling practices will the SPLC send a message that it no longer wishes to be a source for those who would commit acts of violence that are only designed to intimidate and silence Christians and others who support natural marriage and traditional morality. 

"Once again, I call on the SPLC to put an immediate stop to its practice of labeling organizations that oppose their promotion of homosexuality. 

"Whether the SPLC continues to demonize those who hold to biblical morality or not, the Family Research Council will remain unequivocally committed to our mission of advancing faith, family and freedom," concluded Perkins.

Now, let me get into some specifics here.

Whatever the FRC may be in the liberty movement, the League, and our local church are in spades.

Whatever things the advocates of political correctness and collectivism and liberalism find to hate in the FRC, they will find multiple times over in our local church.

Should a Floyd Corkins decide that he wishes to take revenge against someone on the SPLC’s Hate Map, I plan to be prepared to deal with him.

Fifth, I go armed to confirm my own mindset of resistance to criminality and to tyranny and to openly manifest it to others.

I am prepared spiritually, mentally and physically to confront evil men who would harm my family or who would seek to destroy our way of life, be they petty criminals, deranged psychopaths or governmental tyrants. (Yes, I realize that those three categories often coincide with one another).

I stand with my Baptist forefathers, who during the First War for American Independence took as their mottos: “Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God” and “No King, but Jesus.”

Sixth, I go armed to demonstrate to would be tyrants that I will not comply with their dictats to register my firearms or to surrender them to government bureaucrats.

I stand with the Spartans of 480BC, with our ancestors at the beginning of the First War for Independence, with the Texans of Gonzales in1835, and with many other brave souls through the years. I say to the tyrants, if you want my arms: Molon Labe -- “Come and Take Them.”

Click the two Confederate flags   and listen to a 45 minute message 
on a nation turning from God to a one world godless government!

"Fear the Government that Fears an Armed Population"

Don't Furl the Flag! I have, on occasion, been called upon to defend our use of the Confederate flags and other Confederate symbolism. I make no apologies for their use. The following article, which appeared in The Charleston News and Courier on April 27, 1979, explains our position as good as any. It was written by W. Earl Douglas in response to a movement that was then underway to ban the official use of the Confederate Battle Flag. Some argued that the flag offended blacks, reminding them of slavery. Mr. Douglas, himself a black man, first addressed the heartburn that the proposed ban brought to the descendants of Confederate soldiers, such as myself. He then proceeded to set forth his own position in the following words. Pastor Del W. Wray Victory Bible Baptist Church Don’t Furl the Flag By W. Earl Douglas Alas, it has also brought heartburn to this black writer, who cannot buy the socialist philosophy of the Garrisons and Sumner’s of yesterday or today, and would rather wave a Confederate battle flag as a symbol of striving for independence than a food stamp or welfare check, which symbolize the hell of defeat more pronounced than that received in any war. I cannot be convinced that Southern independence meant only the perpetuation of slavery, because history of the truthful kind tells me otherwise. The Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederacy forbade the importation of slaves. How then was slavery the motivating force behind the thrust for Southern independence? How did black and white slave owners exist side by side in this region, which was painted by abolitionists as one of black and white hostility? Why were there always more free Negroes in the slave South than in the so-called free North of the abolitionists? Such questions remain unanswered . . . Whites and blacks were partners in the destiny of the South and not (as the Uncle Tom’s Cabin mentality of the abolitionists would have had us believe) only as master and slave. Today over a century since that much heralded emancipation, it is here in the land of the unfurled Confederate battle flag where Negro progress stands above that achieved in any other region of the country. For it is here, in the heartland of the old Confederacy, where over 70 percent of all black-owned housing is to be found and where this nation’s only viable black economic middle class exists—the Southern black farmer. . . . The real tragedy of the Confederate battle flag is that Southerners, white and black, have permitted it to be driven between them like a wedge, separating them from a common goal. The racism so evident in this controversy is not the flying of the flag but that we’ve permitted it to be designated as pro-white and anti-black. I am reminded that it was my grandfather and grandmother who kept the home fires burning while the Confederacy waged its war. Which is why I cannot view loyalty to the South or the desire for independence as being monopolized by either race. . . . If hate had been the prevailing emotion between the races, then it is a safe bet that the Confederacy never would have been born. Fortunately, there was love, understanding and compassion. And the two greatest lies ever perpetrated by history [are] that the South instigated the war and that it was fought by the North for the purpose of freeing slaves. The Negro was merely used as the excuse for that war, while the real reason for it is reflected in every area of our lives, where the tentacles of government form the bars of a new slavery. No! Don’t furl that Confederate battle flag. Let it wave all across the South to remind Americans that there exists here a yearning for liberty, freedom and independence that will not be denied. Let it fly as a testimonial to real men and real women who would rather work and fight than shed tears and beg for government charity. Finally, let it act as a cohesive force, drawing all Southerners together in the cause of freedom.” The Confederate flag stands for individual and state’s rights, for volunteerism, and for Constitutional government. It stands for self-determination and freedom, for decency and the Judeo-Christian ethic. It stands for the old paths and the ancient landmarks of our American forefathers. It stands for those traditional American values that the United States (sic) and its flag are increasingly standing against. The battle flag stands for the morality and decency of men like, Lee, Jackson, Stuart, Kirby-Smith, and Davis. Long may these principles survive and long may that flag wave. Del Wray, Pastor