[NonValueAdded]

Are they forgetting what April 19, 1775 was all about?

[Dutch Boy]

Not only are they forgetting the cause, they are also forgetting the result.

On the other hand, they might have gone to a public school and were never taught about that period of time.

[coloradan]

I rather think they know all too well what April 19, 1775 was all about. They want to do it right this time, having learned from their errors a couple hundred years ago. Tyrants will be tyrants.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Don't forget the critical earlier "powder alarms" that led up to April 19.

August 31, 1774...General Thomas Gage sent Middlesex County sheriff David Phips to Brattle with orders to remove the provincial powder; Brattle turned the key to the powderhouse over to Phips. Gage also gave orders to ready a force of troops for action the next day, something that did not go unnoticed by the local population. At some point that day, General Gage, whether by his intent, accident, or theft by a messenger, lost possession of William Brattle's letter; the widely held story is that it was dropped. News of its content spread rapidly, and many considered it to be a warning to Gage to remove the provincial powder before Patriots could seize it.

Early in the morning of September 1, 260 British regulars from the 4th Regiment were rowed in secrecy up the Mystic River from Boston to a landing point near Winter Hill. From there they marched about a mile to the Powder House, a gunpowder magazine that held the largest supply of gunpowder in Massachusetts. Phips gave the King's Troops the keys to the building [a Democrat, no doubt], and after sunrise they removed all of the gunpowder...a small contingent [of regulars] marched to Cambridge, removed two field pieces, and took them to Boston.

The field pieces and powder were then taken from Boston to the British stronghold on Castle Island, then known as Castle William (renamed Fort Independence in 1779).

This led to the colonists removing the stores of gunpowder in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Newport, Rhode Islandp Providence, Rhode Island; and New London, Connecticut and distributed to the militias in towns away from the coast.

It would seem we are headed rapidly in the same direction. Putting privately owned arms under lock and key so the government can easily confiscate them is eerily reminiscent of the Powder Alarms.