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The Three Percent in
1775.
During the American Revolution, the active forces in
the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of
the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of
the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps
another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing to
support it. Another one-third of the population sided with the King
(by the end of the war there were actually more Americans fighting FOR
the King than there were in the field against him) and the final third
took no side, blew with the wind and took what came.
Three
Percenters today do not claim that we represent 3% of the American
people, although we might. That theory has not yet been tested. We DO
claim that we represent at least 3% of American gun owners, which is
still a healthy number somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 million
people. History, for good or ill, is made by determined minorities. We
are one such minority. So too are the current enemies of the Founders'
Republic. What remains, then, is the test of will and skill to
determine who shall shape the future of our nation.
The Three
Percent today are gun owners who will not disarm, will not compromise
and will no longer back up at the passage of the next gun control act.
Three Percenters say quite explicitly that we will not obey any
further circumscription of our traditional liberties and will defend
ourselves if attacked. We intend to maintain our God-given natural
rights to liberty and property, and that means most especially the
right to keep and bear arms. Thus, we are committed to the restoration
of the Founders' Republic, and are willing to fight, die and, if
forced by any would-be oppressor, to kill in the defense of ourselves
and the Constitution that we all took an oath to uphold against
enemies foreign and domestic.
We are the people that the
collectivists who now control the government should leave alone if
they wish to continue unfettered oxygen consumption. We are the Three
Percent. Attempt to further oppress us at your peril.
To put it
bluntly, leave us the hell alone.
Or, if you feel froggy, go
ahead AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.
This is a linkable version of the explanation at the upper
right hand corner of my blog, Sipsey Street Irregulars
(sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com). It was suggested by good
friends that we needed a linkable version, so here it is as a
straight-up post and also as an email to my private list. Feel free to
circulate it far and wide.
The Three Percent in
1775.