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The Shot Heard Around The World · Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights

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