{"id":110470,"date":"2025-06-05T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110470"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:03:59","slug":"110470","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110470","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/catherinesalgado\/2025\/06\/04\/tiananmen-square-anniversary-chinese-american-warns-us-to-protect-gun-rights-n4940441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiananmen Square Anniversary: Chinese-American Warns U.S. to Protect Gun Rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the anniversary of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) troops storming Tiananmen Square to massacre the freedom protesters who had gathered there. A survivor of the CCP\u2019s tyranny who now lives in the U.S. has a message for Americans this anniversary: Don\u2019t give up your guns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lilytangwilliams.com\/about-lily-tang-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lily Tang Williams<\/a>\u00a0is an American citizen now, an entrepreneur who is running for Congress in New Hampshire. But the self-described \u201cSurvivor of Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution\u201d remembers all too well the nightmare of Communist rule in China, and on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, she emphasized how vitally important the right to keep and bear arms is in preventing such massacres by dictatorial regimes.<\/p>\n<p>Williams took to X to commemorate the anniversary and reaffirm the United States&#8217; Second Amendment. She included a screenshot of her previous post, which warned that the \u201cchampion of all the mass killings in this world is always a tyrannical government.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1930255009406505322&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fcatherinesalgado%2F2025%2F06%2F04%2Ftiananmen-square-anniversary-chinese-american-warns-us-to-protect-gun-rights-n4940441&amp;sessionId=2a7e357b926144593b30b761294fe5fad992778f&amp;siteScreenName=PJMedia_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1930255009406505322\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her previous post referred to the slaughter by the CCP troops of thousands of students at Tiananmen Square, and expressed regret that the students in 1989 did not have guns like the ones she is able to own now in America. \u201cI am a Chinese immigrant and an American citizen by choice. I once was a slave before and I will never be one again,\u201d Williams wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department and Secretary Marco Rubio put out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/06\/on-the-36th-anniversary-of-the-tiananmen-square-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement<\/a>, too, honoring the \u201cbravery\u201d of the Chinese freedom protesters and explaining:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>In the spring of 1989, tens of thousands of students gathered in Beijing\u2019s largest public square to mourn the passing of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader who tried to steer China toward a more open and democratic system. Their actions inspired a national movement. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the capital and throughout China took to the streets for weeks to exercise their freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly by advocating for democracy, human rights, and an end to rampant corruption. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>The CCP responded with a brutal crackdown, sending the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) to open fire in an attempt to extinguish the pro-democracy sentiments of unarmed civilians gathered on Beijing\u2019s streets and in Tiananmen Square.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that the civilians were unarmed is precisely what Williams was warning about in her statements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lilytangwilliams.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>, Williams says, \u201cI grew up under Mao\u2019s cultural revolution in China and fled communism for the freedom of the United States. Now, I fear the country I love is becoming the country I left.\u201d It is a fear that many of us have experienced in recent years as we witnessed the attacks on our rights by the Biden administration, and now the increasing dictatorial activism of the judiciary. But one way to deter government tyranny is to exercise our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, to be ready always to stand up for ourselves and our liberties, as the Founding Fathers were.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiananmen Square Anniversary: Chinese-American Warns U.S. to Protect Gun Rights Today is the anniversary of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) troops storming Tiananmen Square to massacre the freedom protesters who had gathered there. 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