Defiant Texas governor tells Obama on gun control: ‘Come and take it!’
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, January 06, 2016
As President Obama rolls out new executive rules on guns that could eventually result in some otherwise law-abiding Americans losing their Second Amendment rights, the governor of one state has a message for the White House: “COME AND TAKE IT.”
That was a message tweeted out recently by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in response to Obama’s new push. Included in the tweet was a picture of the famed Gonzales cannon, a small artillery piece given to Texian settlers by the Mexican government to help defend against raids by Native Americans. Tensions arose between Texian settlers and the increasingly centralist Mexican government – which effectively overthrew the Mexican Constitution of 1824 – and soldiers were sent from San Antonio to confiscate the cannon.
The people of Gonzales refused to relinquish their means of self-defense. During a break in the ensuing skirmish, the first battle of the Texas Revolution, Texian Col. John Henry Moore suggested to his Mexican army opponent that, in order to retrieve the cannon as he was sent to do, he would have to “come and take it,” echoing the words of the flag which the settlers flew above the cannon. That phrase, in turn was inspired by the legendary words of the Greek king Leonidas I, in defiance of Persian Emperor Xerxes I demanding that Greeks abandon their weapons and surrender: “Molon labe.”
As noted by the Western Journalism Center, the push to impose new gun control measures by executive fiat is all part of Obama’s continual effort to keep his promise to “fundamentally transform” the country into a nation like that which our founding fathers rebelled against.
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