I’m always fascinated by artwork, and have always been impressed by people who create amazing sand art.  Some of the sidewalk art that is created looks so real that often they are made to appear as holes in the sidewalk and people will actually avoid them.  However, I recently ran across a brief clip of a 3D piece of art that involves firearms… a lot of them.

At first glance, they appear to be constructed in the shape of a handgun, but as the camera pans around to a side view, the illusion forms into the silhouette of the united States!

Take a look!

https://twitter.com/XStrategiesDC/status/1077260778099666944

While some people believe that it was guns that made America free, I beg to differ.  America became free because of the teachings of the Christian religion and the Providence of our God, and that long before we ever had a US Constitution.

However, guns were instrumental and a tool in maintaining freedom in our land, and our founding fathers clearly communicated that individuals were the ones who possessed the God-given rights to keep and bear arms, which our government continually usurps and attempts to infringe on those rights.

Here’s just a few quotes from our founding fathers regarding arms.

1. “The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” – Samuel Adams
2. “…arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them….” – Thomas Paine
3. “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
4. “The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.” – Noah Webster
5. “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.” – George Washington
6. “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” – Thomas Jefferson
7. “The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Thomas Jefferson
8. “I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.” – George Mason
9. “A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves …” – Richard Henry Lee
10. “The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.”- Zachariah Johnson