Grass Roots

Those of us who watch such things have been watching Chicago, IL, wherein Mayor Daley is beginning to confiscate lawfully owned firearms from otherwise law-abiding citizens.

I am told that the Illinois Legislature is considering such a bill to make the bans statewide.

Then, along cones Pike County (scroll down), who says:

"Now, Therefore, It Be And Is Hereby Resolved, that the people of Pike County, Illinois, do oppose the enactment of any legislation that would infringe upon the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms, and deem such laws to be Unconstitutional and beyond lawful Legislative Authority."

That doesn't mince any words, does it? The county co-sponsors say:

One of the two Pike County Board Members who sponsored the Resolution, Robert Kanady, says he hopes the measure would "be the spark that lights a cannon heard all across the United States."

The other goes farther:

"The issue here is not politics, the issue is freedom. Freedom began in this nation more than 200 years ago, when small groups of people like us, in towns even smaller than ours, gathered together to tell the King who tried to rule them from a huge city an ocean away, 'Enough is enough!' Freedom will only survive today if we have the courage to do the same."

In closing, he offered: "In this room tonight we are not conservatives; we are not liberals. In this room tonight we are not Democrats; we are not Republicans. In this room tonight we are Americans."

Hooray! for Pike County.