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The Revolutionary War itself was triggered when the British attempted to confiscate private arms stored by the American colonists in private homes at Concord.

Before sunrise on April 18, 1775, scores of colonists armed with loaded muskets gathered on and near the Lexington green. When the British arrived, the officer in charge ordered the rebels to “disperse, you villains-lay down your arms,” but they refused. The officer then gave the order to surround the rebels, and in the ensuing confusion shots were fired. Three British soldiers were wounded and eight m*****amen were k**led.

Following that initial skirmish, the British continued their march to Concord, but when they began tearing off planks of the bridge spanning a strategic river, American m*****amen rallied to stop the destruction.

Again, shots were fired by both sides, and British officers ordered a retreat during which, as described by historian Donzella Cross Boyle in Quest of a Hemisphere (1970), “the regulars were fired upon from behind walls and trees, houses and barns, by marksmen, who seemed ‘to drop from the clouds.'” Thus began the long, bitter military struggle for American independence that could never have succeeded if the colonists had allowed themselves to be disarmed.

Fortunately, the colonists had refused to do so. In 1671, more than a century before Lexington and Concord, King Charles II imposed legislation to disarm Englishmen, while his royal governor for the colonies did the same to disarm Americans.

Attorney Steven Halbrook, an authority on the Second Amendment, writes in That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitution Right (1984): “Thus, arms control laws in the English experience served not only to subjugate domestically the poor and middle classes and religious groups, but also to conquer and colonize the Scots, the Irish, the American Indians, and finally the English settlers in America.” When the “embattled farmers stood” at Concord Bridge in 1775 and “fired the shot heard round the world,” they did so with an unregistered and unconfiscated gun.

Today’s anti-gun hysteria is in sharp contrast to the attitude of early American colonists regarding firearms. A 1982 report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee recalled, for instance: In 1623, Virginia forbade its colonists to travel unless they were “well armed”; in 1631, it required colonists to engage in target practice on Sunday and to “bring their peeces [sic] to church.” In 1658, it required every householder to have a functioning firearm within his house and in 1673 its laws provided that a citizen who claimed he was too poor to purchase a firearm would have one purchased for him by the government, which would then require him to pay a reasonable price when able to do so.

In Massachusetts, the first session of the legislature ordered that not only freemen, but also indentured servants own firearms and, in 1644, it imposed a stern 6 shilling fine upon any citizen who was not armed.

Writing in the Michigan Law Review for November 1983, attorney Don B. Kates further noted that “the duty to keep arms applied to every household, not just to those containing persons subject to m*****a service. Thus, the over-aged and seamen, who were exempt from m*****a service, were required to keep arms for law enforcement and for the defense of their homes from criminals or foreign enemies.

In at least one colony a 1770 law actually required men to carry a rifle or pistol every time they attended church; church officials were empowered to search each parishioner no less than fourteen times per year to assure compliance.”


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Derek Paulson
Prepared Patriot

funguy1949

100% well done/well done looks like someone did a lot of research Teabag they al knew what the government was capable of doing to we the people that's why the 2nd ADM. has lasted and will keep on being lawful. We the people can stand up to the government as long as we have our weapons.