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SAF OBSERVES 232ND ANNIVERSARY OF LEXINGTON, CONCORD BATTLES
BELLEVUE, WA Thursday, April 19 marks the 232nd anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord that started the American Revolution with the Shot Heard Round the World, and the Second Amendment Foundation notes that the aftermath of this weeks events in Virginia clearly show that European animosity toward our right to keep and bear arms still exists.

In the wake of the horrible tragedy at Virginia Tech, noted SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb, European media and particularly the BBC has bared its visceral disdain toward Americas Second Amendment and the traditions of liberty and independence it represents and protects.

Clearly, Gottlieb said following three days of combative day and night interviews and debates primarily conducted by BBC reporters and commentators, there remains to this day a horrible, condescending attitude toward armed American citizens. Havent the British yet gotten over the fact that a ragtag, often disorganized force of American colonials, wielding their own arms, was able to defeat what at the time was the most powerful armed force in the world?

Our forefathers, he continued, armed with their own flintlock rifles and pistols, and an assortment of muskets the assault weapons of their era threw off the yoke of oppression under which they were forced to live. When British broadcasters today demand to know just what it is about gun ownership that Americans defend so vigorously, the answer is too simple for them to comprehend. Simply put, we defend this individual civil right because without our own guns two centuries ago, we would still likely be saluting a king instead of electing a president. We would likely be British subjects instead of electing our own Congress and state legislatures.

We know our system isnt perfect, Gottlieb observed. But Americas freedom and liberty are second to none. Otherwise, people would be waiting in line to leave instead of sneaking across borders to get in. April 19, 1775 gave us that, and the Second Amendment protects it. And just so the BBC and other European media arent misled, were not giving it up.

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I think what bothers Europeans the most is individualism, our desire to be what we want, to walk to the beat of our own drum.  I believe part of the European's issue towards America is that they have lived under monarchies/tyrannies for so long and communal type living that they have been conditioned to accept that this is the way it is.  Government and rule in Europe flourished under the divine right of kings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_king which gave all power to the government.  They have been lead for so long without the ability to think on their own that they don't really know how.

I think it is no coincidence that all the rabblerousers and independent thinking types left Europe and came to America.  Then look at the type of people that are in America, especially those who espouse the 2nd Amendment.

OTOH, there are those here who think they have a type of divine right to rule and impose their will on all, that they are ordained with power, while of course at the same time and for the most part, deny Divinity.  We are faced with wannabe monarchs who mean to rule. 

It is actually very Machiavellian, I HIGHLY recommend reading "The Prince" by Machiavelli, it is a road map to what we are currently facing.  The phrase "the ends justifies the means" comes from Machiavelli's philosophy.  In fact, most of the current welfare/entitlement systems have a foundation in this book, it is about giving enough to maintain rule, power, and order.  Machiavelli also says that given the option for a ruler to be loved or be feared, he says a ruler should be feared.  We see that now in attempts to create fear, use fear, use brutal tactics in order to create a "need" for strong power and then to maintain it.

The Europeans and those seeking power here detest individualism and the unalienable rights.  Those rights are unalienable as they are from God and thus they cannot abrogate those rights, because the government did not give them.  I think this goes to the desire to remove God from everything, because then those rights would flow from government and not God, and when they flow from government, government can take those rights away.  Just like in Europe.