Posted on 01/11/2013 8:05:20 AM PST by arthurus
On April 19, 1775, British troops, some 800 strong, were dispatched to Concord, Massachusetts, to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock and to seize a cache of weapons known to be stored at Concord. When Dr. Joseph Warren sent Paul Revere to warn Pastor Jonas Clark (in whose home Adams and Hancock were staying) that the Crown's troops were on their way to arrest the two men and seize the guns at Concord, he alerted his male congregants. About 60-70 men from the Church of Lexington stood armed on Lexington Green awaiting the Red Coats.
Upon spotting the citizen militia, a British officer demanded the men throw down their arms. They refused; and the British troops immediately opened fire. Eight of the Minutemen were instantly killed. The colonists returned fire in self-defense, and the shot was fired that was heard 'round the world. By the time the troops arrived at the Concord Bridge, just a few miles away, hundreds of colonists were waiting for them with muskets in hand, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Make no mistake about it: attempted gun confiscation ignited America's War for Independence.
(Excerpt) Read more at rightsidenews.com ...
Along the lines of the church leaders - does anyone have any recommendations for books of pulpit sermons from the time frame in question? I’d love to read up on those.
“We are Conservatives, not pussies.”
Most of us are conservatives. Many are Republicans. Some are pussies, and few are Lord Haw Haw wannabees, kapo conservatives always urging capitulation before the fight has begun.
Just because you in California are OK with losing your 2nd Amendment rights doesn’t mean the rest of us have to lay down.
I think you need to read more of the comments coming out of the Democrat party. Confiscation is their goal. After taking away guns that are suited to standing up against their brown shirts.
You’re proving what we in “fly over country” have known all along. A West Coast, or East Coast conservative is a liberal anyplace else.
I havn’t read this, but it sounds like what you’re looking for, or at least a starting point...
‘The Battle of Lexington: A Sermon and Eyewitness Narrative’
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Lexington-Sermon-Eyewitness-Narrative/dp/0979673631
At the VERY least Laz. Smells like a troll to me .......
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Naaaah...just a lawyer.
Second ... they didn’t have drones, tanks, etc in 1776.
There was no internet, radio, or television. I guess the First Amendment doesn't apply to these either.
We are Conservatives, not idiots.
Not in your case.
You smell like troll.
You come on the threads about 2A and harangue those who speak plainly about what is happening in plain sight.
Why are you even here?
To save us from ourselves?
Your description of civil disobedience is living in fear as a second-class citizen for no other reason that exercising a Constitional Right. That, my FRiend is neither a solution nor an option.
Don't kid yourself, friend. Gun regulation is simply citizen disarmament in slow motion.
The Commie left knows that they can't take our guns through force, which is why they long ago mastered the art of incrementalism. They've practically nullified the entire U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights by ever so slowly chipping away at them.
Second ... they didn’t have drones, tanks, etc in 1776.
Which would be completely ineffective in a fight against 100 million armed citizens. Not to mention the fact that patriots in uniform will never allow those war machines to be deployed against their fellow Americans.
Communists and leftist dictators don't give a damn about civil disobedience. Such protests only work on men who have hearts, and who are basically good. Leftists laugh at such pathetic displays of resistance.
Go ahead and stage a peaceful protest in the public square when the federal jackboots show up to disarm your town. You and your fellow pacifists will be hauled off to Obama's FEMA gulags, never to be seen again.
There has been a concerted effort here at FR from some quarters lately to demoralize gun owners that would resist. I am not deterred. I owe it to those who bought me this freedom with THEIR lives.
Perhaps if registration and confiscation is visited upon the American people they will take it upon themselves to visit their local gun store and burn any and all 4473’s they find.
What do you want to do -- an armed attack on Harper's Ferry?
I sure liked the old USA...
Might want to ping the admin to see what it takes to change a Freepername from RightwardHo to SerfwardHo
In my opinion, it goes without saying that the vast majority of gun owners will to refuse to obey that order, should it ever come. The more pressing question is, what will our response be, should the fedgov attempt to disarm us by force - even if that 'force' is applied in an indirect manner, such as an order to turn in certain 'illegal' weapons?
They don't need to send jackboots to your doorstep to apply real threat and force. They already do that to force compliance with income taxes. If you refuse to comply, they will surely send their agents to up the ante. What then?
In other words, "united we stand, divided we fall".
This is why I have been predicting that civil war is coming, just by reading the info in that posting.
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