Support & Defend Your Candidates Who Support & Defend YOU!

My Personal Observation & Opinion:

On July 13^th, 2016, I went to the Beni’s Restaurant political meet-and-greet event in support of CT Senator Tony Guglielmo's re-election campaign. Over the years that Tony's been a Senator in Connecticut, he has been a staunch supporter of the firearms rights of our citizens.

However, given the current hostile social environment in Connecticut, Tony may have a hard political race on his hands. This election year, Tony is defending his Connecticut Senate incumbency against a very liberal, anti-firearms candidate. It would not surprise me if all the uninformed, fearful, power-mongering, and ignorant people (who have no clue or concern about the real causes of crime and human suffering) come crawling out of the woodwork to support that anti-rights, anti-arms candidate.

The bottom line is that Tony Guglielmo (and every other pro-rights candidate) NEEDS OUR SUPPORT NOW and THROUGH this election, ...AND BEYOND. The urgency to continue the defense of Human Rights does NOT stop with a single vote or a single election. As much as we don't like it, defending our Rights is a life-long process. Our active pro-Rights support needs to be in every possible way that we can manage, especially by contributing our time, our talents, and our finances to the cause of sustaining our human rights. You can be sure that the anti-Rights people are swarming and gathering their resources for their war of subjugation against the rest of us.

During the hour, or so, that I spent conversing with Tony and his supporters, I was pleased to be able to share and reiterate our mutual concerns about the urgent need to work diligently to preserve our natural rights, even as those are enumerated and affirmed by God's Law and our State and Federal Constitutions. The overall tone of Wednesday afternoon's meet and greet was casual, as well as, positive and constructive.

However, there was a definite and significant air of concern, among all the attendees with whom I spoke, regarding the future of our Rights, locally, statewide, and nationwide. The prevailing political sentiment at the meeting was similar to Ben Franklin's comment, that, "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

We must communicate effectively with one another about the severity of the impingements against our Rights. We must effectively work to educate the public about those impingements and the impact that such impingements have on the public in general. We must effectively contribute our time, our talents, and our treasures to the cause of supporting and defending our Human Rights. And, lastly, we must effectively coordinate our efforts with one another, so that we do not isolate ourselves nor think ourselves secure when others of our cause may be in jeopardy from our attackers. The danger of isolation affords the attackers of our Rights to oppressively divide and conquer us, and deny us our God-given freedoms, even as a pack of wolves runs down and kills solitary members of a herd of animals. If we ALLOW the anti-rights crowd to pick off any of our citizens, one by one, or in small groups, or by types of firearms, or by even the removal of any single Human Right, then we shall have accelerated the demise of all of our Rights and hastened society back toward the Dark Ages.

I wish all of you could have been there to hear Tony, and other candidates and politicians, personally reaffirm their own commitment to work in mutual support and defense of our natural rights. Let us not be fearful nor stingy with our willingness to lay down our lives, our fortunes, and our honor, on the battle line and for one another, just as the Founders of our Nation did, only a few generations ago. Let us not let those who oppose Human Rights squander, for the rest of us, the Ideals and Principles on which our Nation was founded. Despite all our weaknesses as human beings, those very Ideals and Principles serve to teach and guide all who are willing to learn and grow in personal and social accountability and responsibility. But, for the anti-Rights crowd, this is about power-plays and how to bring the masses into subjection to the will of the few, which smacks of totalitarianism. The suppression of the Human Rights of the greater portion of society is NOT a viable solution for criminal behavior, terrorism, nor for emotionalism or insanity. But, if "we, the People" work effectively with responsible candidates like Tony Guglielmo, we can make a positive difference in our communities, whether our communities are large or small.

Tony's staff said that they expect to have his campaign website up and running soon. Until that time, anyone wishing to contact or contribute to Tony’s campaign can do so through his legislative aide via http://ctsenaterepublicans.com/contact-guglielmo/.