With My Rifle by My Side

A Second Amendment Lesson

AUTHOR: Kimberly Jo Simac
ILLUSTRATOR: Donna Goeddaeus

BINDING: Hardback, full-color cover; full-color inside;
PAGE  COUNT: 48 pages
ISBN 978-0-9827074-4-9
PRICE: US $18.95

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“Teaching our children to protect their liberty.”

As highlighted on Glenn Beck's radio & TV shows.

Glenn Beck, With My Rifle By My Side

“We pray for an America
     that is safe and strong in heart.
And I know as I grow older,
     I will learn to do my part.”

DESCRIPTION

With My Rifle by My Side is a story written for young children to encourage an appreciation and respect for appropriate firearm use. It is a charming children’s story written in verse that reclaims American values through the perspective of a young boy. The boy enjoys sharing in the experience of hunting with his Dad and sister. He also learns about gun safety as he learns how to shoot his own rifle. After taking part in their outdoor activities, the boy’s family learns about our nation’s history as they visit American monuments. The boy begins to understand the solemn necessity of firearms as they pertain to America’s foundation and the preservation of our liberty. He hears stories that inspire the boy to do his part to preserve American freedom, to protect his family, and to carry on the legacy of the nation’s founders. With My Rifle by My Side is a book with colorful illustrations and a delightful story that renews the spirit of American liberty and honor.

APPENDIX INCLUDES

• Gun Safety for Children
• The Second Amendment
• A Word from the Publisher
• About the Author & About the Illustrator

FROM THE INTRODUCTION

The "Right to Bear Arms" is a Constitutional right embodied in the Second Amendment. It is a fundamental link to the heritage left to us by our nation's Founders. With My Rifle by My Side is a story that conveys this right to children and teaches the honor and responsibility that come with the ownership and handling of guns.If America is to persist, we must stop indoctrination so contrary to the beliefs passed down to us. It is our duty and responsibility to defend the ideals and principles that our Constitution was founded upon and restore the link to our heritage.

It is time for Americans to stand up and defend the country that has offered so much to its citizens. For too long we have reaped the bountiful harvest America offers and not sown a single seed. The result is a transformation of America that has rendered Lady Liberty helpless to defend and protect her people.

The Founders predicted such demise if we strayed from the fundamental premise that government should serve the people and not the reverse. Because we have lost sight of our original values, now our morals, work ethic, pride, and integrity have been greatly diminished.

How will American children realize their ability to achieve greatness if no one instills such attributes as courage, integrity, and honesty in their hearts and minds? We must dedicate ourselves to equipping our children with the tools they need so that they may carry on the rich heritage of America. We must teach our children at an early age that our rights and freedoms as Americans are fragile and of utmost importance. And we can impart a love for liberty, which we have inherited because of our Founders' understanding of righteousness and justice. Only then will they be able to achieve greatness and preserve the great legacy of America.

With My Rifle by My Side is a book that works to instill such values and principles in children. It is a unique story that celebrates duty, honor, and liberty at a time when such ideals are being banned and assaulted in our schools and general society. This book will inspire children to take their place as the future leaders of our nation.

– Kimberly Jo Simac

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A Word from the Publisher

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6*)

But if anyone does not provide (safety, etc.) for his own (family), and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (1 Timothy 5:8*)

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. (Richard Henry Lee 1)

The great object is that every man be armed...and everyone who is able may have a gun. (Patrick Henry2)

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.... (James Madison3)

Appreciation to William J. Federer (Amerisearch.net, American Minute).

Welcome to the inaugural children's book in our new series under the imprint "Young Heart Books" - words and pictures for those young folk with tender hearts who are pliable, fun- loving, and eager to learn. Young Heart Books are for children and their parents who want to learn about truth and life. These books are learning tools to prepare children in the ways of God and His expanding kingdom, to help them grow in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and to help ready them to serve as a co-regent of Christ by adulthood, as the Lord wills.

This is Kimberly Jo Simac's fourth book for children. It is intended to help motivate and excite youngsters in getting to know their gun as their companion and defender, so that at the proper age they might become confident with their rifle by their side. This book will encourage children to learn how to shoot correctly, how to care prop- erly for their gun, and how to rely upon it for enjoyment, food, and protection. This book will also promote study by children about the role of the Colonial Minutemen and of all the soldiers who have defended our country throughout his- tory. Through this book our youth may begin to understand how to help provide safety for their present family and later their own family.

Above all we seek to encourage the young to seek the Lord in prayer, worship in church, and love the liberties provided by the sacrifices of our country's forefathers, so that they may grow into tomorrow's American patriots.

Since it is our right and duty to protect and provide for our household (1 Tim. 5:8), this may lead to a defense of enemies from without - or even from within - our nation; and this is one of the primary goals of the Constitution's Second Amendment established by our Founding Fathers.

In this respect, parents, I draw your attention to the preceding pages where there are numer- ous quotations concerning the cautions of those wise men who assembled at the Constitutional Convention to establish the world's first Christian Constitutional Republic, adding a Bill of Rights guaranteeing in its second amendment the right to keep and bear arms. Read on and embrace the profound words of America's servant leaders of the past and ponder and reason with them, preparing for your own and your children's future.

Happy Hunting,
Gerald Christian Nordskog
Publisher
Memorial Day, 2010

1. Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Initiator of the Declaration of Independence and member of the first Senate which passed the Bill of Rights. Paraphrased from Walter Bennett, ed., Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1978, 21, 22, 124.
2. Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Debates and other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia (taken in shorthand by David Robertson of Petersburg), 2d ed. Richmond: Enquirer Press for Ritchie & Worsley and Augustine Davis, 1805, 271, 275.
3. James Madison, Father of the Constitution, speaking in Congress to amend the Constitution on June 8, 1789. Annals of Congress, 1st Congress, 1st Session, June 8, 1789, 451.

What Reviewers are Saying

Unlike today’s ruling elites, the Founding Fathers held firearms in high regard, not simply as a means of obtaining food but also of ensuring freedom. While customs and technology may have changed in the intervening centuries, the tendency of governments towards tyranny has not, and the need to school children in the safe and responsible use of guns is as vital as ever. An example of the Founders’ thinking in this regard is this from Richard Henry Lee in 1788 (and quoted in the book):

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. [Emphasis added]

Thomas Jefferson thought communing with nature with a firearm superior to most sports (also from the book):

A strong body makes the mind strong …. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.

Kimberly Jo Simac’s With My Rifle by My Side is aimed at children who own or are about to get a firearm. In it, she reminds her young readers not only about gun safety but also emphasizes how important firearms have been in the history of the Republic and the sacrifices Americans have made over time to preserve the essential right to keep and bear arms:

The Founding Fathers trusted God
   for the rules they would make.
They warned us of decisions
   That could lead us all astray.

They said it’s our privilege,
   responsibility, and right,
to own our guns,
   and be ready to fight.

The second section of With My Rifle by My Side, “Appendix for Parents and Grandparents,” deals with firearms safety, briefly discusses the Second Amendment and offers a compilation of more than a dozen quotations about it from the Founders to the present day, and ends with “A Word from the Publisher,” Gerald Nordskog.

With My Rifle by My Side is a fine introductory book for young gunowners and their parents and grandparents who wish to teach their young charges respect for guns and the Constitutional principles that make gun ownership virtually a requirement for all Americans who wish to remain free.

—Mike Gray (StKarnick.com)

This is a great book about the right to bear arms, we are a family that believe in using guns and have always taught our children how to use guns and they have taught their children the same way. My husband has always gone hunting and fishing, and we use the meat. So we believe that it is not a gun that kills people but it is the bad people that use the guns that kill people. This book is for small children to learn that guns are not a bad thing, that it is just some people that are against guns that try to make them bad.

— Edna