WHY WE NEED THE COME AND TAKE IT FLAG TODAY 

While pondering the struggles our forefathers faced, and while admiring the Come And Take It flag, I couldn't help but wish that we in the present had a symbol as powerful and inspiring as the Come And Take It flag was in 1835. 

Sure, the flag is relevant in that tyrants are still trying to take our guns, but no one is coming to take our breechloading, black powder, smoothbore fieldpiece. 

The cannon on the flag is largely symbolic of our struggle to retain our modern firearms. 

Why couldn't we update the flag so it represents our current struggle, while harkening back to history--reminding everyone that the struggle to retain our rights is as old as Texas and the USA?

 With a historical flag representing our cause, it would be apparent that we who fight those who would disarm us are not extreme or radical, we are merely walking in the footsteps and in the well-beaten paths first trod by our forefathers. 

Our historic flag would declare our historic cause.

 Now, with an updated flag, no one can say the flag is only about a struggle between Santa Anna's thugs and Texans 160 years ago in the far away and distant past that offers no bearing today and has no relevance in today's struggle over gun control. 

Now, anyone who sees the flag will consider that history is repeating itself today, and that those in power are aligned with tyrants of old--Santa Anna, King George III--that gun control is nothing new and is nothing more than the schemes of evil men working to subject the good and the innocent to tyranny and servitude. 

And perhaps, when people see the flag, they will choose the side of those resisting the marching thugs, and will take their place in that long line of patriots, minutemen, and freedom-fighters who have stood against wrong for hundreds of years.