Posted on 05/30/2012 1:06:56 PM PDT by marktwain
The Second Amendment Foundation has released a pro-gun patch bearing the slogan "COME AND TAKE THEM." Guns.com is guessing that the phrase, "You'll have to pry it from our cold, dead hands" was too long to fit on a patch.
Alan Gottlieb, the founder and Executive Vice President of SAF, notes that the patch can be sewn into just about any garment, and the hook-and-loop nylon fastener allows the patch to be mounted and removed.
Gottlieb also has strong words about the meaning behind the patch, directing his ire at politicians and police agencies, "What the police are doing is a deliberate theft of personal property, and they know it. [...] Government agencies simply cannot seize private property and refuse to give it back by playing bureaucratic games." That statement makes Gottlieb sound a bit more like a member of the Fourth Amendment Foundation than a member of the SAF, but we can let that one slide.
As much as we'd like to supply you a link to an online store so that you can get your hands on one of these, we can't. The SAF patch currently isn't available online and will only be available through gun shows and the SAF's Bellevue office.
When the SAF isn't making fashionable gun rights patches, they're suing the pants off of federal institutions that play loose with the Second Amendment.
Molon Labe! The spirit of Leonidas lives!
My only suggestion would have been to add “....I dare ya”.
; )
Texas said this to gubmint over 150 years ago.
Thirty-two of them later answered the written appeal from Travis ("we want men and provisions"). They left their homes and families and sneaked into the Alamo pre-dawn on March 1, 1836, past Santa Ana's forces, to help hold the Alamo longer.
There's a plaque to them on the Alamo grounds, not far from the Chapel.
The ultimate “come take them” freedom spirit displayed in the men of The Last Trench. see link below
This spirit will be seen again across this nation when the time comes, G-d willing.
The gover-ment can get their preview of what’s they will be up against.
http://www.confederateamericanpride.com/LastTrench.html
Ping.
I know the story well and have seen the plaque many times. I go to the Alamo at least once a year.
I know the story well and have seen the plaque many times. I go to the Alamo at least once a year.
“Now who will stand on either hand,
And keep the bridge with me?”
—Lord Macaulay
Useless, when the government finally gets around to completely banning guns there will be no real resistance. It will be just like the UK, Australia and everywhere else that has banned guns. People will turn them in without a peep and the few that don’t will be ratted out by friend, neighbors and loved ones. All it will take is a few people being made an example of (midnight raid, perp walk and 20 to life sentence or just dead) and everyone will fall into line.
Should the government do that, then I will actively resist; I have no wife and children for them to threaten, I [currently] have no job for them to threaten, and my life's savings is less than ten thousand dollars. They have little to hold over me, whereas I would intend for them to bleed and die for their transgression: my oath against domestic enemies of the Constitution has no expiration date, and no qualification on the whom of it.
All it will take is a few people being made an example of (midnight raid, perp walk and 20 to life sentence or just dead) and everyone will fall into line.
That sword cuts both ways; all it will take is a relatively few high-up officials to cause them to squirm in lethal pain; it would also take relatively few foot-soldiers dying to rally rather huge support (given the right "PR-spin/publicity") in some areas.
The wariness of the general person of Law Enforcement is not without cause; the people are tiring of the abuse of power and injustice.
This eventuality has been calculated since the founding; indeed most State Constitutions explicitly state that the government derives their powers from the people's own consent... and some states say it more forcefully than others. Like TN:
TENNESSEE CONSTITUTION - ARTICLE I. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
§ 2. Doctrine of non-resistance
That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Known in Texas and elsewhere as "The Immortal Thirty-two."
And so they are, for so long as there remain free men who remember and honor them.
Tell it to Tom Wales.
Can't think of any reason someone would harm this nice man...
We have been making incremental progress since then. We are slowly turning back the gains made by the “Progressives”.
California is one of the holdout states, along with Illinois and New York.
Wow that is nearly as severe as the penalty for sharing a son or two.</sarcasm>
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