June 12, 1775 - Give up your guns and give up your friends - and we’ll give you peace? No deal said the Patriots. And it’s an attitude modern Americans would do well to heed.
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What finally forced the patriots into a shooting war with the British Army in April 1775 was not taxes or even warrantless searches of homes or occupation by soldiers, but one of many attempts by the British to disarm Americans as part of an overall gun control program
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2 months after Lexington and concord - and the shot heard round the world - General Thomas Gage made an offer he thought the revolutionaries couldn’t refuse.
The post No Deal for Gun Control first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.In this episode, I cover the Battles of Lexington and Concord, truly the first military excursions in the patriot struggle for independence. Although Thomas Gage hoped not to provoke an aggressive response from patriot forces, he still attempted to shrewdly act seize military supplies and powder that had been secured in storage locations by the…