The Time When Gun Rights Overthew American Tyranny

This past weekend, there was an anniversary that I missed.

I knew about the incident, of course, but I didn’t recall the date; otherwise, I’d have written something special for the occasion. Well, better late than never.

“Tom, what the hell are you prattling on about now?”

Fair question.

While I’ve written a number of pieces lately about various massacres and horrible events that gun control wouldn’t have done anything for, let’s talk a bit about the time when the Second Amendment was used to take out tyranny here.

I’m not talking so much about the known wars of the 18th and 19th centuries, though those are certainly important and militias were most definitely a part of them. I’m talking about something that happened in the 20th century, when a group of people used their Second Amendment rights to overthrow a tyrannical government here.

“We don’t have tyranny in the United States,” some might argue, which is certainly one opinion. Others think we’ve had nothing by tyranny here for years, which is another.

But in the time following World War II, politics in the Deep South weren’t exactly fair.

And in Athens, Tennessee, it was bad. It was ugly. The powers that be conspired to use their authority to steal from veterans, to oppress people who didn’t like the status quo, and to steal elections.

A group of veterans decided enough was enough, and they stepped up.

The Fat Electrian has a great video on this, by the way.

The short version, though, is that after trying to do things the right way, it was clear that yet another election was going to be stolen. Instead of just shrugging and letting it go, the people took up arms and fought back.

Literally.

No matter what the people in power might have thought, the truth is that they were tyrants. People were beaten and even murdered, while the powers that be engaged in all sorts of criminal behavior. They did everything they could to exclude anyone who might oppose them from the process, which is all stuff you see in authoritarian regimes.

The fact that this was local doesn’t make it any better. Arguably, it made it worse since local politics often have a more direct impact on people’s daily lives.

That meant the people of Athens and the surrounding areas, which had a similar issue, could either just leave or fight back.

They opted to fight, and they won.

Nothing that was happening there before the Battle of Athens was tolerable, and because of the Second Amendment, the veterans had the means to resist. They had the means to fight back against the tyrannical authorities that held the community under its thumb.

Without the Second Amendment, it’s not hard to think that gun control can and would have been used to keep veterans disarmed, thus making it difficult for them to fight back. I mean, yeah, they hit the National Guard armory, but there were other guns being used as well, and that was important.

Bad people don’t like being held accountable for their actions. In politics, they don’t like their gravy train being threatened.

Yet that gravy train was derailed because people had had enough and fought back, not just with words, but with direct actions to make sure their words, and their promises, stuck.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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