Posted on 04/02/2023 3:53:17 PM PDT by Twotone
"Every Communist knows the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” – Mao Tse-tung
Many believe the American Revolution resulted from taxation without representation in parliament. While there is credence in that theory, that did not light the fuse of the first cannon shot in Concord.
The American Revolution was the fatal blow of an attempt to control gun ownership in Boston.
When Gov Thomas Gage of Massachusetts outlawed guns in Boston, he dispatched the Redcoats to break up a town meeting. They were confronted by 3,000 armed Bostonians. Gage was soon to discover that every patriot in Boston 16 years or older owned a gun and an arsenal of gunpowder.
The colonies warned the British they would treat any attempt to seize arms or powder as an act of war. After another attempt to disarm militias, this ignited the fire of discontent for the British into the fires of war. A few months later, the "shot heard round the world" rocked Concord on April 19, 1775.
"The best we can hope for the people at large is that they be properly armed." – Alexander Hamilton
Although the Second Amendment guarantees "the right of the people to keep and bear arms," it is one of our most abridged Constitutional rights. After years of British tyranny, the colonies feared a central government could violate their newly gained freedom and liberty. They demanded the right to bare arms to use against anyone who threatened free speech and tried to abridge their liberties.
In 1822, the right to bare arms was first reaffirmed in Commonwealth v. Bliss when Kentucky tried to restrict carrying a concealed weapon. The court ruled the right to bear arms to defend oneself was a federal right.
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Excellent.
They gave them to him - one round at a time. LOL
One of my ancestors wrote that he was angry that he wasn’t awakened in time to meet the red coats at Lexington Green, but he did meet them on Concord Bridge.
The truly disgusting thing is that I,one who’s lived most of my life within a 10 mile radius of Lexington and Concord,can assure everyone that almost nobody living in those two towns have a problem with the fact that the 2nd Amendment means nothing in the state.
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