Opinion
Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- In a July 3, 1776 letter to his wife Abigail, founding father John Adams wrote about how Independence Day should be celebrated. Adams explained;
I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.
In the years since, Americans have done their best to live up to Adams’s expectations by celebrating the Fourth of July with fireworks. According to the American Pyrotechnics Association, Americans spent $1.3 billion on illuminations in 2018, with $945 million of the total spent on consumer fireworks. As for the volume of pyrotechnics, Americans consumed 277.5 million lbs. of fireworks in 2018.
Simply put, celebrating with fireworks is an integral part of and ubiquitous on Independence Day.
Never a group to tolerate the traditions of others, or to celebrate American freedom, Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety made clear this week that Americans have been commemorating Independence Day wrong.
On July 1, the gun control group tweeted out an image with the message “Consider gun violence survivors on the Fourth of July.” The image was accompanied by a further message that stated,
Every day, an average of 100 Americans are fatally shot & hundreds more are shot and injured. If you’re planning to set off fireworks to celebrate the 4th, consider letting members of your community know so those who might be sensitive to loud noises can prepare themselves.
Every day, an average of 100 Americans are fatally shot & hundreds more are shot and injured. If you’re planning to set off fireworks to celebrate the 4th, consider letting members of your community know so those who might be sensitive to loud noises can prepare themselves. pic.twitter.com/8oYQjLKV35
— Everytown (@Everytown) July 1, 2019
There are those with a sensitivity to loud noises, including some veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. No one should go out of their way to exacerbate these individuals’ condition.
However, Everytown’s blanket admonishment raises a serious question, which was identified by Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon. Gutowski tweeted, “This confuses me. Are there people in America that are unaware we set off fireworks on the 4th of July?”
It doesn’t take a cynic to suspect that Everytown’s Independence Day lecture isn’t about helping those with sensitivity to loud noises. The group has routinely sought to pervert cherished holidays in order to push its gun control agenda. In 2013, Everytown component Mayors Against Illegal Guns created a placemat that encouraged loved ones to argue about gun control during Thanksgiving dinner. The lame stunt was repeated the following year. Everytown supporters are encouraged to send anti-gun “holiday cards” to their members of congress.
Americans should strive to be safe and neighborly in their July 4th activities, but none should let a would-be oligarch and his political minions deter them from fun and legal celebrations. After all, Adams’s prescription for Independence Day observance was “from this Time forward forever more.”
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How about in honor of the Doomberg idiots, we all participate in celebratory gunfire? I don’t mean like the morons in Saudi Arabia, shooting AK-47s with tracers up into the night sky….just make some joyful noise in a safe manner at a range. Or for those of us lucky enough to shoot on our own property, burn up some mags full of old ammo so you can A) celebrate Independence Day with NOISE and B) buy more ammo.
f the commie traitor-party
Years ago, El Paso, Texas (Mexico del Norte) banned fireworks on the 4th of July and even hires paid informants to monitor and report people who buy fireworks across the county line outside of the city limits and take down their license plate numbers and the police go by and check their homes for “illegal” fireworks. A few years back after a major influx of Californians to the Las Cruces, NM area, just north of El Paso, the city began receiving complaints that the noise of the fireworks “hurt their little doggies ears and made them afraid”, and after alleged… Read more »
The left will deconstruct America by any means possible in their quest for a progressive/marxist utopia. You are simply one of the eggs which must be broken to make their omelette.
This is a great citation to save and use every time one of the useful idiots complains about Trump celebrating the 4th.
Screw those snowflakes & there families. this celebration has been going on for over 200 years & now because these flakes don’t like it or it hurts there ears or whatever there problem is they can prepare them selves ! WE THE PEOPLE are going to Party !! SNOWFLAKES BE DAMN .