Re: Gun Control - Should Ordinary Citizens Own, Carry, & Use Firearms?
Reply #948 –
Why this ludicrous affinity with guns and using a long gone early establishment as an excuse in 2015 as if it was still 1775 or the early 1800's? Not very mature. Just as well we haven't got a consitution for kids minds to play with.
I for one don't trust the lot of you.
The British gun control program 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.
So, the whole thing got started because of a British attempt at gun control. Now RJH wants us to disarm--- maybe so the British can come in and take over without fear that every squirrel gun will be trained on a UK soldier because there are no squirrel guns. Hmmm...... What say you, RJHowie? You're looking a might suspicious somehow.