I care. Abraham Clark cared, Ben Franklin cared...BTW A.Clark is my great Uncle.  IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776  The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America  When in the Course of humanevents, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bandswhich have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of theearth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature'sGod entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires thatthey should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.  We hold these truths to beself-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creatorwith certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and thepursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are institutedamong Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --Thatwhenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is theRight of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in suchform, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not bechanged for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hathshewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the sameObject evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is theirright, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide newGuards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance ofthese Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to altertheir former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of GreatBritain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in directobject the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To provethis, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.  He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome andnecessary for the public good.  He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate andpressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent shouldbe obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.  He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of largedistricts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right ofRepresentation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidableto tyrants only.  He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for thesole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.  He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposingwith manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.  He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to causeothers to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable ofAnnihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; theState remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion fromwithout, and convulsions within.  He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; forthat purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing topass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions ofnew Appropriations of Lands.  He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing hisAssent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.  He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure oftheir offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.  He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarmsof Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.  He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies withoutthe Consent of our legislatures.  He has affected to render the Military independent of and superiorto the Civil power.  He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdictionforeign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assentto their Acts of pretended Legislation:  For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:  For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murderswhich they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:  For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:  For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:  For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:  For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences  For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouringProvince, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging itsBoundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument forintroducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:  For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws,and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:  For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselvesinvested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.  He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of hisProtection and waging War against us.  He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns,and destroyed the lives of our people.  He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreignMercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, alreadybegun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in themost barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.  He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the highSeas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of theirfriends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.  He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and hasendeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless IndianSavages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of allages, sexes and conditions.  In every stage of theseOppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Ourrepeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whosecharacter is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to bethe ruler of a free people.  Nor have We been wanting inattentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time ofattempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlementhere. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we haveconjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations,which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They toohave been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must,therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and holdthem, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.  We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States ofAmerica, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of theworld for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority ofthe good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these UnitedColonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that theyare Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all politicalconnection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to betotally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have fullPower to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, andto do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. Andfor the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection ofdivine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes andour sacred Honor.  Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton  John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry  Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott  William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris  Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark  Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer,James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross  Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean  Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton  George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, ThomasNelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton  William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn  Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton  Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
When Los Angeles police moved up their annual Citywide Gun Buyback program to this week, they collected an arsenal that included 75 assault weapons, 698 rifles, 363 shotguns, 901 handguns and — more surprisingly — two rocket launchers.