Fifty years ago this July 4th, I asked my mother to bake a birthday cake for America. It was 1976, and I was just three years old, and I have faint memories of that happening. The entire country was America crazy, and it was glorious.
I don’t expect that to happen this year, unfortunately. As a nation, we’re far too divided to see people celebrate like that. Too many people think America is failing and that what we need to do is change literally everything about our country.
Up to and including extensive gun control.
What they want is gun confiscation, though, even if they keep trying to claim that no one wants it–we’ve seen too many say it for us to believe them.
And 250 years ago, that was how the fight started.
The story of the American Revolution is often simplified to April 19, 1775; Lexington and Concord, the “shot heard ’round the world,” and war between colonial militias and British regulars. But by the time musket fire echoed across Massachusetts, the conflict had been smoldering for years.
Long before independence was declared, the fight was already underway over a fundamental question: whether free people could remain armed.
Disarmament Came Before the Shooting
The British effort to control the colonies did not begin with battlefield engagements. It began with policies. By 1768, as resistance to taxation without representation, warrantless searches, and arbitrary rule grew, British officials identified armed colonists as a problem to be addressed.
Reports in Boston newspapers warned that the Crown intended to disarm the population, impose martial law, and arrest political leaders. Those rumors struck a nerve because they aligned with reality on the ground. British troops were moving into Boston, not as protectors, but as enforcers.
Colonial leaders responded quickly. Public meetings at Faneuil Hall invoked the English Declaration of Rights of 1689, which recognized the right of Protestants to have arms for their defense. Town resolutions reminded citizens that militia laws already required every able-bodied man to keep arms and ammunition.
Go and read the whole thing. Scott Witner did good work for The Truth About Guns.
The long and the short of it was that while many of us, myself included, focus on Lexington and Concord, including the gun confiscation attempt there, the reality is that the British Crown wanted to disarm Americans long before that.
Why? Because you cannot continue to oppress a people indefinitely while they’re armed.
We talk about overthrowing oppression when we discuss the American Revolution, but our Founding Fathers were stacking bodies over far less oppressive things than what we currently endure. We get taxed just for earning a living, while they were being taxed over their preferred breakfast beverage.
But they had no say in these taxes, which we do (theoretically). So, they had a problem with it, and then King George and his cronies decided it was time to make sure we couldn’t get uppity, so they started talking about taking our guns.
No guns, no rebellion.
Unfortunately for Georgie, coming for guns sparked that rebellion.
In the TV Show “The Mandalorian,” the main character says, at one point, “I’m a Mandalorian. Weapons are part of my religion.” While that’s a bit farther than most Americans are willing to go, the truth is that the right to keep and bear arms is part of our sacred right to self-defense, including defending ourselves from tyranny.
It’s why that right was enshrined in the Second Amendment.
Here, in the 250th year of our nation’s founding, the anti-gunners here would do well to remember that no matter how much they want gun confiscation, we’re no less likely to balk at such a thing than our forefathers were.
They took on the most powerful nation in the world and won.
Let’s just hope we don’t have to do that all over again.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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