Thumbs up.
After governments take away the citizen’s right to own guns, innocent people die at the hands of government...lots of innocent people!
That is a classic Oleg Volk poster.
I nominate his as the Artist In Residence of the Second Amendment.
This thread is gonna be good! There’s a million of these in images in my forwarded email file but I didn’t put ‘em in photobucket.
*like*
Don’t mind me, I just saved the image.
And then typo’d my post several times...
Bump.
Jim, can you direct me to the instructions on how to include a photo in my post? I’ve forgotten how to do it! Thanks, and great thread topic!
Hello Congress.
Do you want to be amazing? I hope so. Don't pass any legislation to confiscate firearms.
Love the pic. Had an old repro flintlock years ago. I used to cut round patches out of old bedsheets which worked great, but eventually would give you vewy dwry mouf.
Bring the smoke baby!
BUMP!!
The American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the Colonists.
Fitting that it ends with the Colonists demanding to be disarmed.
Not a bad idea. Just might print that out to followup the orange postcards RMGO had me send to my state congress critters. It could be printed on paper to put in envelopes to accompany other letters to any/all congress critters and on card stock to make my own postcard mailings.
The only problem is, this time the aggressors have drones armed with hellfire missiles with much practice in Pakistan.
A government that can't even require people on public assistance to be drug tested wants to make my owning of a magazine that holds more than 10 rounds illegal.
Really!
Are there any in Washington DC who aren't total idiots?
Many don't know or won't say that, while there were several issues that the colonists held the King in contempt for over several years, the final catalyst that launched the Revolutionary War was an effort to confiscate weapons and ammunition that colonists had begun to store for local militias.
Paul Revere (and many others) got intelligence about the Brits (Redcoats) that were coming to Concord to find and confiscate arms. They alerted the countryside in an organized an effort to show that they would not stand by and let them do it. Some writings indicate that the colonists did not anticipate there would be a fire fight. Instead, they expected the show of massive resistance would change the mind of the British commander. The first skirmish (shot heard around the world) was a route. The Brits killed 10s of men and the colonists retreated. The battle over the next few days turned out decidedly different as militia men from all over the area lined British escape routes and cut down the Brits as they, out of ammunition and supplies, tried to escape back to the city. The Brits endured a gauntlet of gorilla attacks and hundreds died trying to escape.
That's the history lesson for today.
That’s a PROMISE!
The bravery of those audacious men on Lexington Green still stands as one of the most incredible events in American history.
They knew full well that a company of the most ferocious soldiers on Earth were marching toward them. Yet still they stood there, with guns in hand, in defiance of their king and his redcoats. If they weren’t shot down where they stood, they would surely hang for their treason. And still they stood their ground. Amazing!
There is another “Lexington Moment” coming. Count on it.
And yet, when General Gage put pressure on Boston they caved.
Following the first shots of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, on April 27, the military governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and commander-in-chief of all British forces in North America, General Thomas Gage, ordered all firearms owned by the Boston citizenry stored in Faneuil Hall.
On April 27, “1778 fire arms, 634 pistols, 973 bayonets and 38 blunderbusses” were received, properly labeled with the names of the owners, and sorted for storage at Faneuil Hall.
Gage promised the weapons would be returned to their owners “at a suitable time”. Gage feared an attack on Boston was imminent and feared the civilian populace would join in the resistance, confronting him with an inner and outer enemy. - See more at:
http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/faneuil-hall#sthash.YKTLRImT.dpuf
I don’t believe the guns were ever returned to their rightful owners.