Ever get the feeling that you are standing at the Hot Gates watching the Persian army march towards you?
No retreat. No surrender.
Posted on 10/29/2006 10:02:39 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ever get the feeling that you are standing at the Hot Gates watching the Persian army march towards you?
No retreat. No surrender.
I hug my Kimber EVERY day!
Well, yes.
But it was another gun confiscation attempt, one that also involved cannon (3 IIRC) at Concord, Massachusetts that set off another successful revolution. One that took many more long hard years than the Texas Revolution. (After all the Texicans were only fighting that vicious, opportunistic and incompetant boob, Generalismo Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, not the foremost superpower of the day.)
Thanks for the correction.
However the lefties don't find violations of the constitution repugnant. Hence all the unconstitutional gun control laws as well as the recent eminent domain and campaign finance laws.
So as far as they see anything goes as long as it doesn't bother them.
That was also the position of those who supported the British during our War for Independence, and committed atrocities on behalf of the King, who they felt would offer them his Royal protection and immunity for their acts.
Later, some [hopefully, many!] found themselves about to be strung from the nearest handy tree by the veterans who recalled their foul deeds- the Continental government not being yet financially or organizationally available for such retribution- and any regret or repentance the traitors may have felt before their necks stretched goes unrecorded.
We must hang all such damned men.
Captain [later Colonel] Robert Cleveland, Cleveland's Carolina Bull-dogs, circa 1778.
"Molon labe"
Rules: where's the pic of the pretty girl behind the AR-15 (her lovely eyes are all that you can see)?
;^)
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