Fight Complacency
I am the 2nd Amendment Committee chair for the Shield of Truth Network (STN), based in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The Mission Statement of STN: “STN is a grassroots organization dedicated to educating the American people on their Constitutional rights with a Biblical foundation. We the People have the God-given right to be free.” (shieldoftruthnetwork.org)
At each monthly members’ meeting, each committee chair talks for a few minutes about what their committee is doing. The monthly meeting for May 2025 was held on Tuesday, the 27th, one day after Memorial Day. Below is what I talked about during my allotted time:
I have a dear friend in Sydney, Australia. She once asked me, “Why are you Yanks so enamored with guns?” I told her the reason why, as I am going to tell you all here tonight.
Yesterday, as Americans honored and remembered the United States service members who have died in combat theaters around the world over the last 250 years, it’s important to remember how this all started.
In 1774, the rebellion against English tyranny was hitting a fever pitch in the colonies — a full year before the Revolutionary War would begin — as all of America’s parliamentary communications with the King were ignored. Basically, he blew us off.
Fearing that the rebellion would turn into an all-out war, King George III did what tyrants have been doing since the beginning of time: they tried to disarm the citizen population!
On September 1st, 1774, British Major General Thomas Gage seized control of the public gunpowder stores in Boston before moving on to confiscate privately owned firearms, ammunition, and gunpowder.
On April 18, 1775, General Gage issued orders for his troops to ‘seize and destroy all artillery, ammunition, provisions, tents, small arms, and all military stores.’
That night, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to Concord to carry out Gage’s orders. Their goal was to seize all firearms, ammunition, and gunpowder in the city and leave the citizens of Concord helpless against British tyranny.
As we all know, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode all night to get ahead of the British troops to warn gun owners in Lexington and Concord about the approaching troops.
Hearing that gun control was imminent and knowing that further negotiation was pointless (and knowing the horrors that would await their families if they were powerless to defend themselves), these brave Americans did the only thing they could do — they attacked the British troops!
It came to a head on April 19, 1775, with the “shot heard round the world”. Instead of running roughshod over a group of scared farmers and shopkeepers, 73 of the British gun-grabbers died on the spot, 174 crawled away wounded, with 26 more missing and presumed dead.
That was the first time that Americans sent a message to the entire world that we will NEVER be disarmed and that we will ALWAYS stand up against tyranny for the sake of our children and grandchildren.
That is what I told my Aussie friend.
But I also told her this is a fight that is continuing today.
These days, the tyrants who want to disarm and subjugate us aren’t on another continent. They are in Congress, in state legislatures, and as unelected bureaucrats around this great country.
And they are growing bolder by the day, determined to register and eventually confiscate our privately-owned firearms — just like King George III tried to do hundreds of years ago. Back then, it was called “Orders”. Today, it is called “Red Flag Laws”. This boldness is due in large part to the euphoria and complacency we all feel because Trump is in the White House.
We have a debt of honor and gratitude to the American soldiers who stood their ground in Concord and Lexington 250 years ago in defiance of tyranny.
They, along with the over 1 million men and women who paid the ultimate price to never let our freedom be extinguished in this great country, must be honored, because freedom is never free.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of a better way to honor their memories than to continue the fight and not be complacent. Who’s with me?
