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Independence Day Is Brought To You By Citizens With Guns
self ^ | July 1, 2021 | knarf

Posted on 07/01/2021 5:14:59 PM PDT by knarf



TOPICS: Education; History; Miscellaneous; Reference
KEYWORDS: banglist; independenceday
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1 posted on 07/01/2021 5:14:59 PM PDT by knarf
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To: knarf

I like the scene in the movie when the aliens blow up the White House. I’m just saying.


2 posted on 07/01/2021 5:20:53 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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I think most people aren’t aware of how formidable the British regulars were. They were capable of putting out tremendous firepower with skill and precision. That a ragtag bunch of militia and farmers even attempted to take them on is a testament to our forefathers’ courage.


3 posted on 07/01/2021 5:30:31 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu
Not too many people have the imagination to "see" that.

Probably the most valuable asset at the time was determination.

4 posted on 07/01/2021 5:32:22 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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If only the Brits had disarmed their citizenry!


5 posted on 07/01/2021 5:33:14 PM PDT by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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This is a real truth they sincerely hate.

Armed citizens defeated the worlds most effective armed forces led by a totalitarian tyrant.

They were not a standing army or regular army.

They were regular men. Men with weapons.

Thats what socialists and totalitarians of all stripes fear the most.


6 posted on 07/01/2021 5:33:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: knarf

Fantastic!


7 posted on 07/01/2021 5:33:27 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: knarf

Amen.


8 posted on 07/01/2021 5:38:16 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Secret Agent Man

And the socialists/totalitarians fear armed citizenry because whatthey want to do is often horrible things mot would not do, and would seek to off said tyrants once people knew who they were.

The proof is, if tyrants and totalitarians had good ideas and loved the people, they wouldnt be considered tyrants and would have no need to disarm the people, they would willingly embrace their ideas and policies. They would volunteer to implement the policies. There would be no talk of gulags and political prisoners and re-education and such.


9 posted on 07/01/2021 5:39:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Armed citizens defeated the worlds most effective armed forces led by a totalitarian tyrant.


I don’t know that George III would be called a ‘totalitarian tyrant’. He certainly had more influence over his governments that Elizabeth II, but England was pretty much ruled by Parliament.

That’s what riled the Americans so much. They were Englishmen by God and deserved to be treated as Englishmen! You know, with rights and representation in Parliament. Of course once the Regulars were fired upon and killed at Lexington/Concord any real hope of reconciliation was pretty much gone. George III certainly through his influenced towards the “the Americans must be punished” faction in Parliament.

But we, indeed, with French help, did defeat the world’s best.


10 posted on 07/01/2021 5:41:55 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

When it came to the colonies, yep


11 posted on 07/01/2021 5:43:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: hanamizu

You could tell them apart.

Uniform vs farmers.

Accents.

Today, FBI implants.


12 posted on 07/01/2021 5:47:14 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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North Koreans would LOVE to have the chance, WE had, and took
13 posted on 07/01/2021 5:47:36 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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July 4, 1776. The day brave Patriots declared their independence and fought for it.

April 19, 1865. The day Republicans told some blacks in Galveston Texas that they were free.


14 posted on 07/01/2021 5:50:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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July 4th MAGA Bump!


15 posted on 07/01/2021 6:35:22 PM PDT by upchuck (I am not afraid of the Chinese Virus or variants. I AM afraid of the unproven "vaccines.")
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To: Secret Agent Man

Volunteer their dictats,,,
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Like Vaccines?
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We Are Doomed.


16 posted on 07/01/2021 6:42:27 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: Responsibility2nd
April Teenth?

Have not heard that one before.

17 posted on 07/01/2021 6:59:47 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Exactly. That’s why Vote theft, court packing, and 2A restrictions are critical to the Marxists.


18 posted on 07/02/2021 12:47:04 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: knarf

Spending a generation fighting savages in the wilderness well prepares one for fighting Redcoats.


19 posted on 07/02/2021 6:14:52 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: hanamizu

The discovery of guerrilla warfare. Nobody in their right mind squared off against the British square.


20 posted on 07/02/2021 6:51:37 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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