Come and Take It Day 2022
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October 6 is Come and Take It Day.
The day to go out and take something that you've always wanted.
Perhaps it's the day for you defiantly say "come and take it" to someone who wants something you have.
Like my guns. You can take them when you can pry them from my cold dead hands.
Anyway, the origins of this day appear to be in the The town of Gonzales, Texas and their annual Come & Take It Festival.
It commemorates the firing of the first shot of the Texas revolution on October 2, 1835 which went down near Gonzales.
Some people also think the day originated from a of a movie of the same name in 2001.
Having never seen the flick myself I can only chalk it up to coincidence.
Come and Take It Day sounds pretty catchy and can be fun unless you have some individual who is not attuned to the mirth of it all.
Happy Come and Take It Day.