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1.  An armed man is a citizen.  An unarmed man is a subject.
2.  A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3.  Colt:  The original point and click interface.
4.  Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.
5.  If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6.  If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7.  Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8.  If you don’t know your rights, you don’t have any.
9.  Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10.  The United States Constitution (c)1791.  All Rights Reserved.
11.  What part of “shall not be infringed” do you not understand?
12.  The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
13.  64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14.  Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.
15.  Know guns, know peace, know safety.  No guns, no peace, no safety.
16.  You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17.  911:  Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
18.  Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19.  Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.
20.  If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21.  Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22.  You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
23.  Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don’t make more.
24.  When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25.  The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

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More living history, US Marine style.

They know he wears two hearing aids, thanks to the 105mm howitzer he manned. They know he served in the U.S. Marine Corps and made corporal. They know he has a basement room full of memorabilia after four major battles, including Saipan and Iwo Jima.

“They’d ask every once in a while, but then they’d get a dubious look on their face,” said Bien, 82, of Belle-ville. “They know some of it. I don’t think they know the depth of it.”

Four campaigns in 13 months — Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. You might think Iwo Jima was the battle that hit Bien hardest, but it was Saipan.
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He and a buddy were ordered to dig a foxhole in the rain. They piled up sandbags for the walls, then decided to put on a roof of steel bars, mesh, canvas and several inches of sand to keep dry.

That night, a 75mm mortar round landed on the roof.

“We were asleep and it turned us both over. That roof saved us,” he said.

After Iwo Jima, the 4th Division was preparing for the invasion of Japan. Bien would have gone into Tokyo Bay several days after the invasion started to the south.

“Then Harry dropped the A bomb,” Bien said. “I stayed drunk for three or four days.”

He came home and drank away another $300 he got from the state. Then he became a carpenter, married the girl across the street and had six children.
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“You never stop being a Marine,” he said. “I’m still a Marine.”

Semper Fi Cpl. Gordan Bien

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