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In early January 1831, Green DeWitt wrote to Ramón Músquiz, the top political official of Bexar, and requested armament for defense of the colony of Gonzales. This request was granted by delivery of a small used cannon. The small bronze cannon was received by the colony and signed for on March 10, 1831, by James Tumlinson, Jr.[5] The swivel cannon was mounted to a blockhouse in Gonzales and later was the object of Texas pride. At the minor skirmish known as the Battle of Gonzales—the first battle of the Texas Revolution against Mexico—a small group of Texians successfully resisted the Mexican forces who had orders from Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea to seize their cannon. As a symbol of defiance, the Texians had fashioned a flag containing the phrase "come and take it" along with a black star and an image of the cannon which they had received four years earlier from Mexican officials. This was the same message that was sent to the Mexican government when they told the Texians to return the cannon; lack of compliance with the initial demands led to the failed attempt by the Mexican military to forcefully take back the cannon.[6] Replicas of the original flag can be seen in the Texas State Capitol, the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, the Sam Houston State University CJ Center, the University of Texas at El Paso Library, the Marine Military Academy headquarters building, the Hockaday School Hoblitzelle Auditorium, and in Perkins Library at Duke University.
originally posted by: TheAmazingYeti
Now, If you owned a gun a rifle for the defense of your homestead in the woods, I find that to be understandable but there are plenty of counter measures you can still deploy...
originally posted by: Maverick7
originally posted by: TheAmazingYeti
Now, If you owned a gun a rifle for the defense of your homestead in the woods, I find that to be understandable but there are plenty of counter measures you can still deploy...
If you don't support the US Constitution, made by people who were brilliant, then perhaps you should move to Australia. In fact, maybe you are not a US resident. You might know that Australia did this 'gun confiscation' and their murders and violent crimes are on the increase.
Let us know what it's like down there, won't you?
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: SudoNim
Why yes, yes I would.
My rifle above the mantle where it's convenient to hand. My handgun, which ever one I choose on my hip where it's handy for snakes of which ever variety I may have to deal with in my day to day life should it be necessary
...and folks leave me alone to live my life as I choose to live it, so long as I live within certain boundaries of the society I live in, just as I leave them alone to pursue their own lives within those same societal boundaries.
What is it about that that is so hard for some to understand?