GONZALES TELLS FEDS "COME AND TAKE IT"
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:51 pm
My wife came across this recently in looking into Gonzales related matters after a lovely visit to that fine town yesterday.
The Gonzales Cannon is one of the newspapers there.
As you may recall from your Texas history, when the Texians were getting a bit rowdy back in 1835, the Mexican army sent a few troops to Gonzales to retrieve a small cannon which had been provided at the towns request to defend against marauding Comanches. As usual, an oppressive government tries to disarm the citizens. The Gonzales residents got word of the upcoming demand and prepared for it by coming up with the wonderful phrase "Come and Take It". The first troops chose discretion over valor and went back to HQ in San Antonio. Later a larger force came for the cannon, and they also left empty handed.
In that spirit, back in February the Gonzales city council unanimously approved the following resolution...
"In recent months the U.S. has experienced tragic incidents where suspects with firearms inflicted death and injury upon both children and adults," City Manager Allen Barnes said in his briefing for the Council. "The visceral reaction to these incidents has been to call for limits upon the individual right to keep and bear specific arms which is guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Congress is currently considering legislation that would not only restrict the right of one to own particular weapons, but may require the surrender or seizure of weapons from individuals.
"Should the U.S. approve these gun control measures the City of Gonzales will find itself in a situation very similar to the situation it was in during the fall of 1835," Barnes added. "While the political circumstances are somewhat different, the subject matter is very similar. And we all know the immortal 'Come and Take It' was our response then."
"Councilman Tommy Schurig motioned for approval and read the resolution. It was approved unanimously, eliciting a round of applause from the audience."
I am proud to say that Councilman Schurig is my first cousin.
The resolution notes that "All federal acts, laws, executive orders, agency orders, and rules or regulations of all kinds with purpose, intent or effect of confiscating any firearm, banning any firearm, limiting the size of a magazine for any firearm, imposing any limit on the ammunition that may be purchased for any firearm, taxing any firearm or ammunition ... or requiring the registration of any firearm...shall be further considered null and void and of no effect in this City."
The resolution directs city employees and agencies to refuse any requests or directives from federal agencies acting in unconstitutional fashion, and calls on other municipalities and jurisdictions to pass similar measures.
Here is a link to the entire article in the Gonzales Cannon
http://www.gonzalescannon.com/node/12996" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I find it interesting that we have heard nothing of it before.
I surely love Texas and Texans...or at least most of them.
The Gonzales Cannon is one of the newspapers there.
As you may recall from your Texas history, when the Texians were getting a bit rowdy back in 1835, the Mexican army sent a few troops to Gonzales to retrieve a small cannon which had been provided at the towns request to defend against marauding Comanches. As usual, an oppressive government tries to disarm the citizens. The Gonzales residents got word of the upcoming demand and prepared for it by coming up with the wonderful phrase "Come and Take It". The first troops chose discretion over valor and went back to HQ in San Antonio. Later a larger force came for the cannon, and they also left empty handed.
In that spirit, back in February the Gonzales city council unanimously approved the following resolution...
"In recent months the U.S. has experienced tragic incidents where suspects with firearms inflicted death and injury upon both children and adults," City Manager Allen Barnes said in his briefing for the Council. "The visceral reaction to these incidents has been to call for limits upon the individual right to keep and bear specific arms which is guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Congress is currently considering legislation that would not only restrict the right of one to own particular weapons, but may require the surrender or seizure of weapons from individuals.
"Should the U.S. approve these gun control measures the City of Gonzales will find itself in a situation very similar to the situation it was in during the fall of 1835," Barnes added. "While the political circumstances are somewhat different, the subject matter is very similar. And we all know the immortal 'Come and Take It' was our response then."
"Councilman Tommy Schurig motioned for approval and read the resolution. It was approved unanimously, eliciting a round of applause from the audience."
I am proud to say that Councilman Schurig is my first cousin.
The resolution notes that "All federal acts, laws, executive orders, agency orders, and rules or regulations of all kinds with purpose, intent or effect of confiscating any firearm, banning any firearm, limiting the size of a magazine for any firearm, imposing any limit on the ammunition that may be purchased for any firearm, taxing any firearm or ammunition ... or requiring the registration of any firearm...shall be further considered null and void and of no effect in this City."
The resolution directs city employees and agencies to refuse any requests or directives from federal agencies acting in unconstitutional fashion, and calls on other municipalities and jurisdictions to pass similar measures.
Here is a link to the entire article in the Gonzales Cannon
http://www.gonzalescannon.com/node/12996" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I find it interesting that we have heard nothing of it before.
I surely love Texas and Texans...or at least most of them.
