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[T]he battle of Thermopylae has very specifically become a symbol of the fight to defend America’s Second Amendment. A Persian emissary was sent by Xerxes to negotiate with Leonidas. The Greeks were offered their freedom and the title “Friends of the Persian People,” and in addition, they would be re-settled on land better than that they possessed.

When these terms were flatly refused by Leonidas, the emissary asked him more forcefully to lay down his weapons. Leonidas’ famous response was for the Persians to “Come and take them (Molon Labe).” An even more famous response came from his general, Dienekes. When Leonidas refused to back down, the emissary told him, “Our arrows will block out the sun.” To this Dienekes replied, “So much the better, we shall fight in the shade.”