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Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 2 months ago to History
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I had to read the article twice before I caught on. The scary thing is that with the ways governors are taking the law into their own hands, this could very well happen again.
SOURCE URL: http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/01/19/72-patriots-killed-resisting-massachusetts-state-gun-confiscation/


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  • Posted by brkssb 8 years, 2 months ago
    "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." Edmund Burke and paraphrased by many others.
    forget = censor = ignore = rewrite = emulate = shrug off = represent = deny ... etc.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 8 years, 2 months ago
    That evil Governor Gage... then again he was following the express desires of his commander in chief... --snicker--

    The really, REALLY sad part is those who really did NOT remember their history - that Gage was a Governor back when Massachusetts was still a British Colony, Gage being, of course, the Colonial Governor for His Majesty George III... that getting drawn into this story (which was true, BTW) one thought these events were either current or recent affairs, or not-distant future events.

    SO tell me true... as soon as you saw Gage's name did you remember your history, or did it hit you later? And if your answer is the latter... then who is to blame when that bit of history repeats itself, because we forgot it enough to let it repeat?
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
      I'll answer for myself: I saw Gage's name and it triggered a reaction, but not immediate recognition. It was that "there's something about that name but I'm having a hard time placing it... Oh, wait: THAT one" kind of thing.
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  • Posted by strugatsky 8 years, 2 months ago
    Eighteenth Century Americans were made from different stock. Those were individualists who came to the new land for an opportunity to work. The New Amerikans are either a product of pampering and great, unsubstantiated expectations, or have recently arrived for the Benefits. Most would gladly surrender to the Government on any terms, as long as their TV and phone service is restored and for the promise of food stamps.
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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 2 months ago
    I strongly doubt that such an action will take place again. After all 0 personally has been responsible for the greatest number of guns sold in the USA in the last 7 years versus the last 100 years. He is also responsible for a dramatic increase in the membership of the NRA. So history in this case will not repeat itself.
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  • Posted by edweaver 8 years, 2 months ago
    I caught on about halfway though the article but I recognized Governor Gage from a couple books I read in the last year or 2. But this is a great reminder of what my be in the future but I sincerely hope not.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 2 months ago
    I would expect that a second civil war would be more
    likely, with the welfare States being fought off by the
    self-sufficient States. . could be started by Texas and
    followed closely by Oklahoma and North Dakota and....... -- j
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  • Posted by $ jlc 8 years, 2 months ago
    You did give us a bit of a warning that there was a different meaning to the headline. If not for that, I would not have caught on til the end, I think.

    Yep. Interesting.

    Jan
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  • Posted by Rex_Little 8 years, 2 months ago
    Is the part about gun confiscation historically true? I don't remember that from my history classes, but then again the last one of those was over 50 years ago.
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    • Posted by DrZarkov99 8 years, 2 months ago
      That's a little complicated. The British became alarmed when the civilian populace began stockpiling arms and ammunition. Technically, the Brits recognized it was common sense for some of the people, mostly rural, to have private firearms for hunting and self protection, but an armory able to provide arms to even town dwellers could only promise armed conflict. The intent was for the troops sent to Lexington to sequester the armory and confiscate the collected arms and ammunition. Originally, there wasn't an intent to raid private homes and confiscate individual arms.
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      • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
        Correct. The British didn't want to see the formation of militias, even though America was Frontierland at the time and there were still skirmishes with natives (see the French and Indian War in which George Washington cut his teeth) which demanded that the towns protect themselves.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 8 years, 2 months ago
    Don't count out Arizona possibly seceeding from the Union if Civil War ll erupts. This is still the Wild,Wild West. Despite the military bases in the state those military personell I hope would side with the state. The Native Americans on the Reservations would all of sudden become well armed and probably take advantage of the ensuing chaos to grab more land. Even though the ex-citizens of the Socialist Republic of California that now reside here will really find out what Arizona is all about.
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
      Two other states are Montana (automatic exit clause in the event of nullification of individual right to bear arms) and Texas (they still think of themselves as a different country).
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 2 months ago
    At some point it will come to this. Thats why I will never register a gun I own with the government that the gun is supposed to protect me from.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 2 months ago
    Once again, the ancient one speaks. "Beware ye persons of former Freedom Land. Confiscation of your personal protections predicts the end to all freedom. The time to fight or flee is neigh."
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 2 months ago
    I'm sure it will be tried again. But I'm not at all sure the good guys will win the next time.

    Certainly such a seizure would be conducted house-to-house. Which means every city, maybe every neighborhood needs to organize its own "Paul Reveres" to spread the alarm as soon as that squad of bad cops starts on its rounds to confiscate our guns.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 2 months ago
    I caught on pretty quick to the Revolutionary War tongue-in-cheek.
    Hey, but are there even 72 gun owners in modern Massachusetts?
    Old Bama boy was born in that "commonwealth" in 1947, but I have not been back since the 60's.
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