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It wasn’t that easy for them…

 

Would you defend Liberty if you had to?  Most of us would answer, unhesitatingly, YES. 

 

It’s easy for us to defend Liberty today.  It wasn’t always so. 

 

On the morning of April 19, 1775, members of the militia (that is, most of the able-bodied men) got the word through Paul Revere’s network that the Regulars were out, on their way to Lexington and Concord.  They were going to arrest Colonial leaders and confiscate gunpowder and other supplies. 

 

Was it easy to defend Liberty that day?  When Revere, Dawes, or any of the other riders in the network awakened the men at each town and farm, they had a choice: 

 

roll over and go back to sleep, and accept whatever tyranny the Crown had in store for them;

 

or get out of bed, head for their assembly points, and perhaps face musket balls or cold steel bayonets. 

 

When they left that morning, for Lexington Green, or for Concord, they didn’t know what would happen – but they knew there was a chance they would not come back. 

 

Next Wednesday, when you get out of bed, you don’t have to make the same choice – because they did the hard thing.  We don’t have to resort to musket balls and bayonets, because they already paid that price.  We can use the tools they left us – the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights.  Free Speech.  Freedom to Assemble.  Freedom to Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances. 

 

But just like the men on April 19, 1775, the first step is to travel to the assembly point. 

 

Will you?  Will you spend one day, and travel to Springfield – to defend Liberty? 

 

IGOLD – Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day.  Next Wednesday, March 10.  It’s a lot more fun than facing the Redcoats on Lexington Green.