BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Maryland.

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BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Maryland.

National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.

Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.

Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.

The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.

Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.

One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”

Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.

During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists.

Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.

Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.

Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.

Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.

And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775.

History. Study it, or repeat it.

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https://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/nationalguard.asp

Were 72 People Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation in Boston?

CLAIM

An ambush near Boston recently killed 72 National Guard troops.

RATING

 FALSE

 

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3 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

https://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/nationalguard.asp

Were 72 People Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation in Boston?

CLAIM

An ambush near Boston recently killed 72 National Guard troops.

RATING

 FALSE

 

You had to go to Snopes for a story regarding the American Revolution?

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10 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

You had to go to Snopes for a story regarding the American Revolution?

 

   Well I suppose if it had been properly sourced in the first place, I wouldn't have had to. I thought the TOS was your bible?

Edited March 6, 2018 by Steeleballz

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3 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Well I suppose if it had been properly sourced in the first place, I wouldn't have had to. I thought the TOS was your bible?

We have to source the Battle of Lexington and Concorde?

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1 minute ago, Bill & Katya said:

We have to source the Battle of Lexington and Concorde?

   

     Yes. Read your bible.

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By David B. Kopel*

Administrative and Regulatory Law News (American Bar Association). Vol. 37, no. 4, Summer 2012. More by Kopel on the right to arms in the Founding Era.

This Article reviews the British gun control program that precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gunpowder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gunpowder; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events that changed a situation of political tension into a shooting war. Each of these British abuses provides insights into the scope of the modern Second Amendment.

Furious at the December 1773 Boston Tea Party, Parliament in 1774 passed the Coercive Acts. The particular provisions of the Coercive Acts were offensive to Americans, but it was the possibility that the British might deploy the army to enforce them that primed many colonists for armed resistance. The Patriots of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resolved: "That in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by the strength of arms, our cause we leave to heaven and our rifles." A South Carolina newspaper essay, reprinted in Virginia, urged that any law that had to be enforced by the military was necessarily illegitimate.

The Royal Governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, had forbidden town meetings from taking place more than once a year. When he dispatched the Redcoats to break up an illegal town meeting in Salem, 3000 armed Americans appeared in response, and the British retreated. Gage's aide John Andrews explained that everyone in the area aged 16 years or older owned a gun and plenty of gunpowder.

Military rule would be difficult to impose on an armed populace. Gage had only 2,000 troops in Boston. There were thousands of armed men in Boston alone, and more in the surrounding area. One response to the problem was to deprive the Americans of gunpowder.

Modern "smokeless" gunpowder is stable under most conditions. The "black powder" of the 18th Century was far more volatile. Accordingly, large quantities of black powder were often stored in a town's "powder house," typically a reinforced brick building. The powder house would hold merchants' reserves, large quantities stored by individuals, as well as powder for use by the local militia. Although colonial laws generally required militiamen (and sometimes all householders, too) to have their own firearm and a minimum quantity of powder, not everyone could afford it. Consequently, the government sometimes supplied "public arms" and powder to individual militiamen. Policies varied on whether militiamen who had been given public arms would keep them at home. Public arms would often be stored in a special armory, which might also be the powder house.

Before dawn on September 1, 1774, 260 of Gage's Redcoats sailed up the Mystic River and seized hundreds of barrels of powder from the Charlestown powder house.

The "Powder Alarm," as it became known, was a serious provocation. By the end of the day, 20,000 militiamen had mobilized and started marching towards Boston. In Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, rumors quickly spread that the Powder Alarm had actually involved fighting in the streets of Boston. More accurate reports reached the militia companies before that militia reached Boston, and so the war did not begin in September. The message, though, was unmistakable: If the British used violence to seize arms or powder, the Americans would treat that violent seizure as an act of war, and would fight. And that is exactly what happened several months later, on April 19, 1775.

Five days after the Powder Alarm, on September 6, the militia of the towns of Worcester County assembled on the Worcester Common. Backed by the formidable array, the Worcester Convention took over the reins of government, and ordered the resignations of all militia officers, who had received their commissions from the Royal Governor. The officers promptly resigned and then received new commissions from the Worcester Convention.

 

http://www.davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/american-revolution-against-british-gun-control.html

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6 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

I thought the TOS was your bible?

Boiler's, but available for claim by all.

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7 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Well I suppose if it had been properly sourced in the first place, I wouldn't have had to. I thought the TOS was your bible?

Perhaps it’s more of a parable, a way of opening one’s mind to the potential abuses that are out there.   IDK.  If you don’t like it, ignore it. If you think it applies to anything in your life, embrace it.  

 

It’s not a current event, to be sure.  But a hot topic lately?  Yeah, it fits the bill.  History...

Edited March 6, 2018 by IDWAF

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5 hours ago, IDWAF said:

Perhaps it’s more of a parable, a way of opening one’s mind to the potential abuses that are out there.   IDK.  If you don’t like it, ignore it. If you think it applies to anything in your life, embrace it.  

 

It’s not a current event, to be sure.  But a hot topic lately?  Yeah, it fits the bill.  History...

 

   I didn't say it wasn't worth posting, I just said you should source it. Not everyone on this site is American. Just because it's obvious satire to you, doesn't mean everyone will know what it is about.

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6 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Boiler's, but available for claim by all.

 

   According to the search function, Bill has made that reference 5 times. Certainly Boiler's line, but Bill has been borrowing it for a while now.

 

  

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16 hours ago, IDWAF said:

Perhaps it’s more of a parable, a way of opening one’s mind to the potential abuses that are out there.   IDK.  If you don’t like it, ignore it. If you think it applies to anything in your life, embrace it.  

 

It’s not a current event, to be sure.  But a hot topic lately?  Yeah, it fits the bill.  History...

The only issue with the OP is that is identifies the location as Maryland.  Not sure if that was on purpose.

10 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   According to the search function, Bill has made that reference 5 times. Certainly Boiler's line, but Bill has been borrowing it for a while now.

 

  

You don't follow the ToS?

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ToS is Boiler's bible, make it yours.

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