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Glad to know that if the Supreme Court reverses the ruling that you'll give up your gun.
Not me.
They can send Clarence Thomas to take them away from me, though. I'd enjoy the hell out of that scenario.
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Originally Posted by Ms. Tarabotti
This is what they are teaching in school these days?
They certainly should, because it's the absolute truth. The battle of Concord was kicked off when 260 British soldiers crept up the Charles River the night before to seize an arms warehouse so the colonists would be defenseless.
This is what they are teaching in school these days?
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Originally Posted by Mr. In-Between
They certainly should, because it's the absolute truth. The battle of Concord was kicked off when 260 British soldiers crept up the Charles River the night before to seize an arms warehouse so the colonists would be defenseless.
It is not called Patriots Day for nothing. They watered that tree of liberty with the blood of redcoats that day.
Today, we remember what Concord & Lexington, represented in the fight for liberty.
242 years ago today, they came for our guns.
We didn't want your guns, in reality the war was not even a tax issue, as the US paid far lower taxes and had a higher standard of living at the time.
In terms of representation most people in Britain didn't have the vote unless they were part of the wealthy land owning classes, and Britain had a bloody Civil War between the Royalists and Parliamentarians a century before, in which the Parliamentarians won, and the King was beheaded.
Royalty was later restored, however most powers were transferred to Parliament, and the issue on American Representation devided opinion. Indeed there wre many wgo given our own history had a lot of sympathy for the American point of view, and even the war itself was a strange affair, involving a small army, of which over a third were German Hessian Mercenaries. Even at the time Britain was mainly concerned with it's Navy and the Empire it was building was mainly based on trade, and was the consequence of the large trading companies, some of whom had private Armies, whilst the Royal Navy was important to defend the trading ships and Britain which had an advantage in being an island when it came to wars in Europe.
We didn't want your guns then, and we don't want them now.
They should be, and they should be teaching the true reason for the Second Amendment.
Instead of demonizing the founding fathers for following the practices of the day.
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