Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

We live in a remarkable age when you and I can harness the power of the internet to share the message of liberty in America.  And never has it been more important for us to speak up!

You don't even need to know what you're doing!  Most people learn as they go.  

In this video, Julie Borowski explains how she got started.  You'll want to take notes!

We all have a responsibility to protect and promote liberty in this great country.

You CAN make a difference!!!

Highlights of Julie's GREAT Advice

1. Just get started!  Don't wait.  It's a learn-on-the-job effort.

2. Don't let the trolls get to you. 

3. Keep your videos short. 

4. Begin by getting your audience's attention.  

5. Create content that people want to watch.

6. Upload videos often.

7. Produce videos that are related to big stories in the news.

8. Engage with the people who watch your videos. 

9. Share your videos on places like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. 

10. Connect with like-minded people.  

Love this NRA ad!  

"They don't rule us.  They don't give us rights.  We grant them power.

"They don't make us safe.  We pay to protect them.

"They don't make us free.  We're free already, and as long as we have the Second Amendment. we always will be.

"We are America, and our politicians are only as powerful as we, the people, allow them to be."

Countless women experience unfathomable regret and pain after making the "choice" to get an abortion.  

In many cases the abortion provider intentionally withholds important information that could help them make a more informed choice.

This is one painful, tragic example.  May God heal this young woman, and bless her for her courage and desire to help others. 

As active, busy moms, it's important for us to stay healthy in body, mind and spirit.  

Neal Barnard, author of Power Foods for the Brain, gives us some excellent advice on how to keep our brains healthy and strong.  

In just three minutes he shares important information for our brain health, now and in the future.

Amanda Collins is a young rape survivor. While in college in 2007, she was raped 50 feet away from the campus police department office at the University of Nevada-Reno and was lucky to get out alive. 

Her attacker was James Biela, a serial rapist who raped two other women and murdered another. He attacked her at gun point in a gun free zone. 

At the time of the attack, Collins was in possession of a concealed weapons permit but was not in possession of her firearm due to university policies prohibiting carrying concealed weapons on campus. She was also a second degree blackbelt at the time and walked to the parking garage with a large group of people. 

Today, Collins did an interview with NRA News host Cam Edwards to tell her horrific story. She explained why Colorado Democratic Rep. Joe Salazar's comments about call boxes and rape whistles being sufficient self defense for women on campus will only result in more uncessary victims.

"If I had been carrying that night, two other rapes would have been prevented and a young life would have been saved," Collins said. 

"All of these are just sentiments that give a false sense of security. In my experience I know that the university that I attended, the University of Nevada-Reno, they didn't didn't have any call boxes the night I was attacked. 

"They afterwards installed them but I can tell you that a call box above my head while I was straddled on the parking garage floor being brutally raped wouldn't have helped me one bit. 


"The safe zone? I was in a safe zone and my attacker didn't care," Collins said. "It's known that I could see the police cruisers less than 50 feet away from me, from where I was being attacked but the moment I saw those cruisers, I knew at the same time that no one was coming for me....they were all off duty. The offices had closed. They weren't in their cruisers, there was no one there. 

"A whistle wouldn't have gotten anybody's attention. It was isolated, it was late at night. 

"It's really frustrating that I'm supposed to hand over my own protection to a man but they're not able to guarantee our protection and the comments that this representative made about women not knowing if they're going to be raped or accidentally shooting the wrong person were extremely offensive because he specifically targeted female students. So, is he saying that all women are unable to make sound decisions in the midst of that, that we should go against our God given gut instinct that something was wrong? I knew something was wrong the moment I was grabbed from behind."

Red-tape and university policies led to this happening and empowered Biela while punishing Collins.

"I was legislated into being a victim," Collins said.

The entire interview is worth your time. Please, take the time to watch it and please share it widely. 

Not surprisingly, CNN's Piers Morgan denied Collins' request to come on his show and tell her story.

Collins is now an advocate for concealed carry on campuses across the country.

"Across the country, lawmakers are debating whether universities should let students and faculty with permits carry their concealed weapon on campus. Those who want to put an end to such gun-free zones have found an unlikely hero in a petite, soft spoken, young woman who wonders why colleges protect most Constitutional rights, but not the one that matters most when staring into the face of a violent criminal."

No one wants to believe that the people we have elected to positions of authority and responsibility are really trying to destroy the economy of our country, but how else can you explain what they are doing?

Watch to see why we are at risk and what you can do about it.

“I no longer see a pathway where the ruination of this country can be blamed on incompetence or even rank stupidity. There’s no other explanation left for me now than a deliberate attempt to destroy this economy.”  ~Bill Whittle

President Obama proposed increasing the minimum wage to nine dollars per hour in his recent State of the Union address. 

Here are two important reasons why that is a lousy idea: 

• First, it will cause increased unemployment.
  
• Second, it will cause higher prices. 
  

Julie Borowski explains how this happens in her usual entertaining and enlightening way.

Dr. Carson’s recent address at the National Prayer Breakfast was so engaging that you might have missed the powerful parenting lessons he shared.  

Here are four small things that made a big difference -- in Dr. Carson’s own words.


Believe in Your Children

“I was a horrible student. Most of my classmates thought I was the stupidest person in the world. They called me dummy. I was the butt of all the jokes. Now, admittedly, it was a bad environment. single-parent home, you know, my mother and father had gotten divorced early on.

“My mother got married when she was 13. She was one of 24 children. Had a horrible life, discovered that her husband was a bigamist, had another family. And she only had a third grade education. She had to take care of us. Dire poverty. I had a horrible temper, poor self-esteem. All the things that you think would preclude success. But I had something very important, I had a mother who believed in me. 


Never Make Excuses or Allow Your Children to Make Excuses

“And I had a mother who would never allow herself to be a victim no matter what happened. Never made excuses, and she never accepted an excuse from us. And if we ever came up with an excuse, she always said do you have a brain? And if the answer was, “yes,” then she said then you could have thought your way out of it. It doesn’t matter what John or Susan or Mary or anybody else did or said. And it was the most important thing she did for my brother and myself. Because if you don’t accept excuse, pretty soon people stop giving them, and they start looking for solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success. 


Trust in the Lord and Pray For Wisdom 

“Well, you know, we did live in dire poverty, and one of the things that I hated was poverty. you know, some people hate spiders, some people hate snakes, I hated poverty. I couldn’t stand it. But, you know, my mother couldn’t stand the fact that we were doing poorly in school, and she prayed and asked God to give her wisdom, what could she do to to make her sons understand the importance of wisdom? 


Encourage Your Children to Turn Off the TV and Read Good Books

“God gave her wisdom. At least in her opinion. It was to turn off the TV, let us watch only two or three programs during the week, and read two books apiece and submit to her written book reports which she couldn’t read, but we didn’t know that.  She put check marks and highlights and stuff. But, you know, I just hated this. And my friends were out having a good time. Her friends would criticize her. they would say you can’t make boys stay in the house reading books, they’ll grow up and hate you. and I would overhear them and say, you know, mother, they’re right. but she didn’t care.

“You know, after a while, I actually began to enjoy reading those books because we were very poor, but between the covers of those books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, i could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment, and as I read those stories, I began to see a connecting thread. I began to see that the person who has the most to do with you and what happens to you in life is you. You make decisions. You decide how much energy you want to put behind that decision. And I came to understand that I had control of my own destiny. And at that point I didn’t hate poverty anymore, because I knew it was only temporary. I knew I could change that. It was incredibly liberating for me, made all the difference.”