• grte@lemmy.ca
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      Molon labe, commonly translated as, “come and take them.” Referencing the (likely apocryphal) story of King Leonidas saying this to Xerxes when he demanded they give up their arms. The Persian army then rolling over the Spartans easily. Gun nuts find this story inspiring for some reason.

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        Gun nuts find this story inspiring for some reason.

        The reason being that they are uneducated morons that don’t even read Greek, so someone had to tell them what it said too. But I’m guessing the person who asked here didn’t then say, “I’m-a put that on my truck!”

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          To be fair, nobody is born knowing how to read in any language, and everyone needs to be told what words mean.

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            Yeah, I mean that he didn’t seek this out himself. He probably didn’t know it was Greek until some other gun nut told him it was Greek.