I just got back from voting in the Primary.  My trusty Sig P226 was a great choice to carry into the community building owned by the city.  Iowa Code 724.28, Preemption, validates my right to self-protection and the city or county can’t take that from you without assuming your safety.  You can thank IFC and NRA for those protections by the way.  We were the only ones in that fight each time it was strengthened and expanded.  My version of a “thank you” would be JOINING our cause.  Unlike some, we truly value and work for our membership.

If you haven’t been paying attention, I’ll get you up to speed really quickly.  Elections are lost in the General, and they’re shaped and essentially won, in the Primary.  This is the time and place in which you’ll narrow the field to the candidates that best suit your preferred potential outcome in their respective offices.  I listen to people bawl and bellyache about holding their nose in the General election while they vote for a candidate that does ok by their estimation, but certainly not great.  If you truly want to do something about that scenario, today is your day.  Act.

I’ll also let you in on a secret…  There are very few universal litmus tests for politicians.  But, regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, you and I both need elected officials who trust us.  If they don’t then that is a serious problem of which there can be no reconciliation.  To quote L. Neil Smith:

What his {politician’s} attitude — toward your ownership and use of weapons — conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn’t trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

If you’re about to vote for a person that truly prefers to take from you basic civil rights, for no other reason than he doesn’t trust you with them, he or she cannot and should not be trusted themselves.  DO NOT PUT THEM IN POSITIONS TO  CONTROL YOU.  Vote wisely…

In Liberty,

Michael Ware