Encouragement for you, from the echo of LaFayette

via Western Rifles Rifle Shooters Association, a comment left by a reader of that blog.

You were once a great Nation but you ought to be proud still having free-minded living men (as far as i have been reading this discussion).

Here, in France, we are all slaves and used to be like this for a long time.

I would say most of us enjoy it, except maybe 1 out of 50000 like me.

You have so many possibilities we do not have here (great men who fought or are still fighting for liberty, guns’ laws, large territory, large human base)

Despair is your only ennemy.
Have faith.

Marquis de LaFayette, Major General of the Continental Army, and the right hand of Washington