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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Real Meaning Of One Of The NRA’s Favorite Mottoes….’Molon Labe’
Molon Labe has become one of the favorite phrases of hard-core 2nd Amendment people who are paranoid that the government is coming to take their guns.
So what in the world is Molon Labe? Dont feel bad if you dont know. Unless you are a paranoid gun lover youve likely never heard the phrase.
Molon Labe is a classical Greek phrase meaning Come and take [them]. And 2nd Amendment enthusiasts have adopted the phrase as a way to stand up to their imagined threat of the government coming to take away their guns.
Retired Army officer Allen West is a former Republican Congressman. Hes also one of those paranoid gun lovers. And he loves talking about Molon Labe.
In October West gave a speech in Florida where he explained just where the phrase came from. He told the story of the 300 Spartans who fought to the death against an army of 10,000 Persians at the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. And then he asked the audience, What is your Thermopylae? Where will you take a stand?
The obvious implication is that gun lovers must stand up to the government.
Molon Labe is attributed to Spartan King Leonidas who defiantly stood up to an order by the Persian King requiring his Greek army to give up their weapons. He was trying to defend the Greek cities against an invasion by the Persians at a place called Thermopylae. And, even though the Greek army was massively outnumbered, they still stood firm and responded with Molon Labe.
So now, all these years later, gun lovers have adopted the phrase as their own. They are determined to never give up their guns and are challenging the government to just dare and try to confiscate their beloved weapons. Never mind that the government is not coming for their guns. They remain defiant and paranoid just the same.
http://samuel-warde.com/2016/08/real-meaning-one-nras-favorite-slogans-molon-labe/
Rex
(65,616 posts)They think Reagan was a real cowboy and that their 'way of life' is under mortal threat. These are the folks Trump was talking to.
kysrsoze
(6,021 posts)Beartracks
(12,814 posts)For the NRA to always push this myth shows who they really work for. The gun lobby doesn't represent the interests of gun owners nearly so much as they represent the interests of gun manufacturers.
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Nevernose
(13,081 posts)It's scheduled for November 8th. Everybody's talking about it. It's been on the radio and Glen Beck and other good news sources. SWAT will come to be house, knock on the door, and if nobody's home, they'll come in and seize any guns found. They estimate they can confiscate as much as two-thirds of American firearms.
So if you cherish your second amendment rights above all others, STAY HOME ON NOVEMBER 8TH and protect yourself from Obama-Clinton tyrrany by hunkering down and protecting what you've got! Clinton's goon squads are coming -- even Rush Limbaugh says so -- so TRUE PATRIOTS and people who know that CLINTON IS THE LITERAL DEVIL and know that OBAMA IS THE FOUNDER OF ISIS need to STAY HOME on November 8th and protect themselves.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)hunter
(38,313 posts)Spot too.
Spot's only bad habit is that he tends to eat people who shoot at him. This gives him gas. Dragon burps and farts are not funny.
And I'll probably vote for Hillary at every polling place we pass.
There will be no stopping us.
It will be a great day.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Freddie
(9,267 posts)He no longer uses. He got a great price for it from one of his co-workers who said "I better do this while I can before Obama makes it impossible to buy a gun." DH said nothing and took his $$.
MirrorAshes
(1,262 posts)Do they really believe they could win a war against the United States government, even with all their big shiny guns? The military still has... you know... drones, smart bombs, artillery, etc.
The idea that they'd actually fight the war they so often claim to want is a joke.
What they really want, I think, is an excuse to shoot liberals. Ideological cleansing.
I'm going to keep pushing them. From a distance anyway, 'cause them folks be crazy.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Amishman
(5,557 posts)We can't get anything passed and the paranoids on the other side stay fired up because a very small very vocal minority who really do want to take their guns.
Senator Feinstein's 'America turn them all in' comment may be one of the most damaging gaffes in modern US politics.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)was all she could realistically hope for.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)No ones taking your fucking preciouses away.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What is with these people? Why do they effing think they need a goddamn gun wherever they go? What a miserable way to live. I will never, ever get it.
I am just so thankful that I live in an area of the country where I have never seen anyone carry a gun in public besides the police and where people here are strongly for gun control laws.
RandiFan1290
(6,235 posts)And the rest of the Bundy gang
We came and took 'em.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)Not taking up for the NRA but you can't just make shit up and call it truth.
Paladin
(28,262 posts)Feel better?
jmg257
(11,996 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)THEY ALL DIED!?
Stinky The Clown
(67,800 posts)I know it will never happen in my lifetime, but that's my gunz hardon. Melt them down to slag. Every fucking one of them.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)I guarantee the result would be the same because the Pentagon has one thing that a bunch of out of shape wanna be heroes playing with guns in the woods doesn't.
It's called Command ans Control. All the lopsided armament not withstanding the ability to see the field of battle and control the forces on it is paramount to success. These poor bastards couldn't even use a cellphone without calling in a HARM missile.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)As fucked up as any "gun nut", whatever the fuck that is, could possibly be.
You think that in an all-volunteer force there would be a large number of people eager to push a button and vaporize their fellow citizens? If you're correct, the military sure has changed since I was in it.
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)and the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Article III, Section 3. Read it.
As for when I was in the Army all my buttons had US on them, not some fantasy patriot movement and an all volunteer army is more likely to follow orders than one made up of short timers like me.
If you don't know what a "gun nut" is you need to educate yourself, son.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:36 PM - Edit history (1)
them do so?
All of them? Any of them? Only certain ones?
Iggo
(47,555 posts)Oh wait...
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)UTUSN
(70,696 posts)Nac Mac Feegle
(971 posts)I'm pretty sure it's pronounced " Moron Inside". It even looks like the first generation Intel Pentium 'warning label.'
(To all the non-nerds out there: The original Pentium microprocessors from Intel had a 'bug' in them that caused math errors.)
ornotna
(10,801 posts)They seem to forget to mention the 4000+ other Greeks that were there. There is a reason they are called gun nuts.