Our Founding Fathers declared independence from the British on July 4, 1776 (well, July 2 to be exact). But exactly 250 years ago, the People declared their independence on April 19, 1775, when minutemen at Lexington and Concord handed an embarrassing black eye to what was then the world’s mightiest superpower.
Why then? They had endured a series of insults and transgressions from the crown, including even a series of actions they called the “intolerable acts,” which imposed British tyranny over rebellious Massachusetts. What was so special about April 19, 1775?
Well, about 700 British Army regulars under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, were given secret orders to capture and destroy colonial weapons, powder and other supplies reportedly stored by the militia at Concord.
This was the ultimate intolerable act. The final straw. Lots of things had gone into the pressure cooker that eventually exploded into the American Revolution, but the ultimate intolerable act, the spark that made the patriots decide it was time to start shooting was the British attempt to disarm them. They knew that a disarmed populace is a helpless populace. That was unacceptable to them and they would remain loyal subjects no longer.
Fast forward to the present day. The Supreme Court has another chance to grant cert in Snope v. Brown this Monday, and the 250th Anniversary of the shot heard round the world would be a great time to do it.
Personal self-defense is an important right, but it wasn’t why our revolution started. The minutemen weren’t worried that the British were going to stop them from defending themselves against ruffians or brigands. They were worried that when they lost their “weapons of war” — muskets back then, AR-15s and the like today — they would have lost any meaningful liberty they had left and would be unable to resist further transgressions. More intolerable acts.
The Supreme Court needs to recognize that in 2025, just as in 1775, the right to keep and bear arms must include the prevailing combat arms of the day. If it keeps kicking this can down the road, or even denies cert in Snope, the Justices will have betrayed their oath to the Constitution and spit on the memories of Lexington and Concord.
Happy 250th Birthday, America.
Konstadinos Moros is an Associate Attorney with Michel & Associates, a law firm in Long Beach, California that regularly represents the California Rifle & Pistol Association in its litigation efforts to restore the Second Amendment in California. You can find him on his Twitter handle @MorosKostas. To donate to CRPA or become a member, visit https://crpa.org/.
This post was adapted by SNW from a tweet posted by Konstadinos Moros.
Registration -> Confiscation -> Enslavement and or Genocide
The cycle has repeated so many times one wonders why anyone with an IQ above room temp could ever think it’d be different today.
“Registration -> Confiscation -> Enslavement and or Genocide”
Otherwise known as The European Union.
Communism never led to bad outcomes and Hitler was the only villain in history. Well, him and the tyrannical tangerine felon in chief Drumpf. (See how this works?)
“Enslavement and or Genocide”
Otherwise known as The European Union”
Strange, they don’t consider it enslavement. I think they actually like the idea of living longer with better health.
In other news, it’s great to see the United States Supreme Court come down on the side of freedom and due process:
“Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now
The justices said no action should be taken to pursue the deportations of any alleged Venezuelan gang members in Texas under the rarely used wartime law.
Apr. 19, 2025, 1:08 AM EDT“
All that will be remembered in 26 and 28 is that dems championed the cause of illegals that were traffickers, rapists and murderers.
Seriously, miner, can you be this stupid?
All that will be remembered in 26 and 28 is that dems championed the cause of our constitutionally protected right to petition our government for a redress of grievances and due process.
Not a bad legacy, I’ll take it.
Proving yourself that stupid, miner. You are a priceless asset to Trump.
Of course we’ve been through this before, but I’m fine with bringing him back here, going through the process of officially removing the protection order, and then deporting him back to prison in his home country. He was here illegally, he had a deportation order for SIX YEARS which he blatantly ignored, he was an MS-13 gang member, he was a wife beater, and he was obviously conducting a human/labor trafficking scheme. Americans are sick of dealing with illegal immigration. That is exactly why Trump was elected. You people, who excuse and exalt this behavior, are exactly why Trump was elected. Please keep it up.
Miner, I’ve been on a large scale construction site where NONE of the workers could speak English. I noticed multiple commercial vans with Texas plates. This site was far from Texas. Obviously, they brought in illegals to do this work on the cheap. That is theft. They are robbing Americans of jobs. They are depressing wages. They make it difficult to compete by following the rules. That is what you support. It is anti-American. You are against America. Democrats hate America because they hate themselves. They cheer for the downfall.
It’s not surprising that they chose a despicable criminal alien as their new George Floyd martyr. That was the best they could do, and Dems are stupid enough to go along with it.
“In other news, it’s great to see the United States Supreme Court come down on the side of freedom and due process:”
False.
SCOTUS has essentially paused the case while they take a look at everything. Its got nothing to do with if these terrorists get due process or not. Plus, the SCOTUS order only applies to the deportation of the Venezuelan TDA terrorists to El Salvadore (that’s the context of the case) – they can still be deported to some place else (another country) in the interim and then be deported from there to El Salvadore by the interim country. In the end though, SCOTUS can not stop Trump from deporting them.
SCOTUS is the judicial, a co-equal branch and not above the executive branch – they already ruled in the Garcia case, essentially, that the judicial branch does not have the authority to ‘dictate’ foreign policy to the executive branch and the deportations are foreign policy which is only in the hands of the president as the constitution placed it there, not with congress or the judicial, but with the president.
I was wearing my Infowars 1776 t-shirt. Black with ‘1776’ writ large in white letters across the front. The teenage girl at the grocery checkout asked me “What happened in 1776?”. I told her: “We said ‘no’ to the British”. She said “Oh yeah…I remember…we learned about that in school”. To which I replied “Excellent…never forget”.
“I was wearing my Infowars 1776 t-shirt“
Snookered by “mere opinions ‘masquerading as a fact.’”
“Alex Jones’s Attorneys Argue That No Reasonable Person Would Believe What He Says
The Infowars honcho’s legal troubles mount.
Dan Solomon
By Dan Solomon
July 31, 2018
“No reasonable reader or listener would interpret Mr. Jones’ statements regarding the possibility of a ‘blue-screen’ being used as a verifiably false statement of fact, and even if it is verifiable as false, the entire context in which it was made discloses that the statements are mere opinions ‘masquerading as a fact.’”
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2018? Seriously, miner. 24 was a bad year for you. 26 and 28 are shaping up to be worse and you’re hung up on 18?
You are living proof that the education system needs to be burned down and started over.
All you have is insults, you can’t even address the fact that Alex Jones’ own attorneys said his “statements are mere opinions ‘masquerading as a fact.’”
“proof that the education system needs to be burned down and started over.“
Of course, now that you’ve received a free education at the taxpayers’ expense, it’s time to destroy the system.
Got it, now that you’re on the lifeboat, it’s time to pull up the rope.
Rebuild the system, miner, but you knew that. What a hack.
The education system is graduating people who can’t proficiently read and write. Miner wants to protect that because that’s what his masters want. Miner is an unthinking drone.
It’s Griftism. Look into how much the education system has expanded administrators/bureaucrats vs teachers. Then look at the quality of the teachers who are always demanding more money. Democrats have exposed themselves by bending over backwards to protect the systems they’ve been calling racist for years. It’s funny how they never have a plan for fixing any problems. It’s always just, “give us more money to expand the government. It will work this time. Promise.” wink, nod
Shot Heard Around the World: Battles of Lexington and Concord, First Strike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5J3I8IUPsU
hope this posts.
https://mrctv.org/blog/p-gardner-goldsmith/shot-heard-round-world-250-how-british-gun-control-ignited-american