“"You may fire when you are ready Gridley." Commodore George Dewey, 1 May 1898, at
the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.”
The gun debate is nothing to kid about
“If the gun debate gets any more juvenile, the participants
will need strollers.”
Cassi Creek: The battle
of Manila Bay, 2 May 1898, signaled the demise of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
Dewey crossed the T on the poorly prepared Spanish fleet at
Manila.
“At 5:41 with the now famous phrase, "You may fire when
ready, Gridley, the Olympia's captain was
instructed to begin the destruction of the Spanish flotilla.
3, July 1898, the Battle of Santiago de Cuba resulted in the U.S.
Navy destroying the Spanish Flotilla, bringing about the end of the Spanish
empire in the New World.
As a result, the U.S. Navy became a formidable navy, capable
of bringing force to bear as directed by the United States civil
government. With a presence in two
oceans, it effectively elevated the United States to the role of a great power,
a player on the world stage that it has maintained since the Spanish-American
War.
“At 7:45 a.m., after Captain Gridley messaged Dewey that
only 15 rounds of 5" ammunition remained per gun, he ordered an immediate
withdrawal. To preserve morale, he informed the crews that the halt in the
battle was to allow the crews to have breakfast”
In recognition of George Dewey's leadership during the Battle
of Manila Bay a special medal known as the Dewey Medal was presented
to the officers and sailors under Admiral Dewey's command. Dewey was later
honored with promotion to the special rank of Admiral of the Navy; a rank that no
one has held before or since in the United
The battle
for gun control is going to be fought tooth and nail by Obama and whomever he
can enlist to help him. The opposition,
the NRA, Gun Owners of America, and every toy-soldier militia, gun collector
and teavangelist in the nation, posing as “the good guys” but primarily
supporting gun manufacturers, arms dealers, who are actually an arm of “the bad
guys.”
The Congress
will vote along party lines in order that the GOP/teavangelists can present
their selves in support of “gun rights” and collect their back door re-election
funds.
Obama has
sufficient public support for changing the gun control laws and regulations if
he moves now and moves effectively. He
needs to engage at every level, just as Dewey did at Manila and Farragut at
Mobile. If he allows the public concern
to be distorted by the NRA’s propaganda mill, it will be too easy for Congress
to do what it has always done, nothing.
It’s time to
cross the T on the NRA. You may fire
when ready, Biden!”
Don't ever kid a Spaniard about the War of 1898; they have not forgotten!
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