The 1946 Battle of Athens Tennessee
When ill-informed people speak of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, they speak only of
how hunting is a noble right and sports shooting is a valid hobby. What is often left unsaid is that the Founding Fathers had intended this inherent right as a protection against tyranny of all sorts. An unarmed society is a society waiting to be enslaved. A legally armed one is a functioning republic.
There is no better modern example of this than in the 1946 Battle of Athens.
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