Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights
Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights
The Shot Heard Around The World
It may be a week late but we discuss the 250th anniversary of the Shot Heard Around The World that initiated the American Revolution
saf.org
subscribe to my newsletter
Follow this link and get $25 in ammo.
Fountain Podcast App
Follow me on Fountain
Follow twitter @JeffDowdle
Follow me on Truth Social - @JeffDowdle
Convention of States Project
Presearch search engine sign up.
Brave Browser
Find our Representative
email me at jeff@livetoshoot.com
Welcome to the Live To Shoot podcast. My name is Jeff Dole and I've been a licensed firearm dealer for the last 17 years. And this podcast talk about all things related Second Amendment, as well as anything else going in the world, a sports story, or. Anything else that I might find interesting. So welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the podcast where we stand tall for our God-given rights. We cut through the anti propaganda and we celebrate it, what it means to be free American. If you're a patriot with fire for liberty, you're, you're at home. So I, I regret to say that I intended to do this podcast last week, this episode and time caught up with me and. Things slipped up and I didn't realize where I was in the calendar and just life got in the way and, and I just did not get it done. I, I did not get this put out, so I'm putting it out a week late. But what am I talking about? I'm talking about the 250th anniversary of the shot heard around the world. The beginning of the revolution and why it's so important and why I've talked about it a couple times on this podcast is, is you'll, you'll see e evidence of, of why this is such an important topic for all of us in the Second Amendment community. So. We're gonna go back to April 19th, 1775 when it all began the battles of Lexington and Concord. The shot heard around the world, the moment when ordinary Americans picked up their muskets and said, no more to tyranny. This wasn't just the start of the Ian American Revolution. It's the beating heart of why we have the Second Amendment. So lock and load. Grab your favorite range hat. Let's dive into the story of courage, defiance and how it, it ties directly to your rights to keep and bear arms. So let's set the scene. It's 1775. Conies are fed up. The British crown's been taxing them without representation, quartering soldiers in their homes, and worst father trying to disarm them. And the red coats were after the columnists powder in arms stored in Concord, Massachusetts. They thought they could just march in, seize weapons and crush the spirit of the rebellion. Big mistake. So on April 19th, general Thomas Gage sent about 700 British troops from Boston to Concord. But you've all heard the story. The columnists weren asleep upon Revere, William Dawes and others rode through the night warning. You know the militia, the British are, the British are coming. Actually the red coats are coming is what they actually said. But by dawn, about 77 minute men, farmers shopkeepers everyday folk, folk clergy stood on Lexington green muskets in hand, staring down the red coats. Captain John Parker, their leader reportedly said, stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but they mean to have war. Let it begin here. Then a shot. Nobody knows who fired it, but that spark lit the fuse. Now, they've done some reenactments, some studies, and they're pretty confident that the British, the red coats fired that opening shot. The British opened fire. They killed eight men, men and wounded about nine or 10. The survivors scattered, but the fight was far from over. By the time the red coats reached Concord. Hundreds of Milish men from surrounding towns had rallied. They ambushed the British at the North Bridge and harassed them all the way back to Boston, picking them off from behind stone walls and trees. And by the end of the day, the British had lost 273 men. The colonists. Less than a hundred. This wasn't just a skirmish. This was the moment when Americans proved they wouldn't be disarmed. They wouldn't be subjugated. They were armed citizens, not subjects, and they fought for their freedom with the tools of liberty, their firearms. Now let's connect dots. Founding fathers didn't write. The right. The people that keep and bear arms shall not be infringed on a whim. They lived through Lexington in Concord. They saw what happened when tyrannical government tried to disarm its people. They, the British wanted the colonist guns because an armed populist is a threat to control the men. Prove that on April 19th, 1775, when the founders drafted the Bill of Rights. They knew the Second Amendment wasn't about hunting or sport. It wasn't just ensuring that people could resist oppression just like those men, men did. It was about ensuring that those people could resist oppression just like the men, men, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson. George Mason, they all wrote about it, the necessity of armed citizenry. Mason said to disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them. Sound familiar? That's exactly what the British tried and that's what the anti-gun politicians are still trying to do today. The militia at Lexington Concord weren't some organized army. It was you and me, ordinary folks with their own rifles, powder, and a will to fight. The Second Amendment protects that same right today. Your ability to own the tool of self-defense and resistance, whether it's an AR 15 shotgun, a handgun, whatever it might, the modern musk is in your safe, and it's there because of what those Patriots did 250 years ago. Now. Don't let anyone tell you the Second Amendment is outdated. Tyranny doesn't retire. Government's overreach always have, always will. Just look at the AFS rule on banning. In California found banning standard rifles. They're not after public safety. They're after control. Same as red coats, Lexington Concord. Remind us of why we can't let that happen. So. What does Lexington, Concord mean in for us in 2025? Everything, this isn't just history, it's a warning and it's a call to action. Men, men didn't wait for the permission to arm themselves. They didn't register their muskets or beg for a permit. They knew their rights came from God, not a king, and they backed it up with actions. I. And that's the spirit we still need today. Every time you hear about gun, a gun con control push, whether it's red flag, a magazine bans, assault weapon, hysteria. Think about those 77 men on Lexington Green. They face down the most powerful army in the world because they refuse to be disarmed. We don't have red coat marching on Concord today, but we have go bureaucrats and politicians chipping away at our rights, one regulation at a time. Lexington Cor Con also teaches us about readiness. Those men, men won't call men to men for a reason. They got, they go grab their rifles and they're ready. Are you ready? Train. Do what it takes. Be the modern militiamen. So you often hear, you know Biden would say, you know, they, they think they can, you know. Take down the government and we, well, you know, we've got f fifteens. Well, these were 77 men against the, the largest nation in the, in the world, the largest empire. So it, it doesn't take f fifteens to take down tyranny. So be diligent. Keep up the fight defend our rights. Keep the lefties away from our guns and be action, action, action oriented. This is the Live to Shoot podcast. I'm Jeff Doddle. Follow me, share this with others. Do whatever it takes. Just get the word out. But you know, I'm a week late. But we celebrate what those people did 250 years ago and what we're still fighting for today. The right to keep and bear arms. Thank you and have a great week.
