[Vision2020] Huh?

[Paul Rumelhart]

I don't know what the security of the weapons caches was like at the time.  I don't disagree that taxation was a big reason for the unrest, but it does appear (from my cursory research) that attempting to disarm the colonists was the spark that set everything off.  Specifically, it wasn't the idea of taxation that prompted whoever it was to fire on the British first, it was disarmament.  They were opposing a British military force with specific orders to confiscate their weapons caches.  It's almost as if it is complicated enough that pinning the cause of the war on any one factor alone is too limiting of a viewpoint.


Paul



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 From: Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com>
To: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>; Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Huh?
 


Hi Paul,

Without further research I would assume that even then the Revolutionary militia was "well-regulated," i.e., not everyone had access to the weapons, which were safely stored, as our weapons today should be if we had common-sense gun legislation.

I agree with Tom and all historians who obviously point to the fact that it was primarily and fundamentally an issue about taxation.

Nick



On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

Certainly there were many reasons leading up to the conflict, but the spark that set everything off was when the British troops went to Concord via Lexington to confiscate the military supplies cached at Concord.  You remember "the shot heard round the world", and "Paul Revere's ride"?  The shot was at Lexington where the British troops were trying to disperse the crowd (and possibly disarm them).  Paul Revere's ride was to Lexington to warn the leaders there that the British were on their way.  The cache of weapons and other military supplies at Concord had been moved weeks earlier since the rebels had had good intelligence about this possibility.
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>"What really started the (Revolutionary) War was the right to keep and bear arms."
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>Ah, come on, Boom-Boom.  Certainly that "No taxation without representation" thing has got to be in there somewhere.  Dontcha think?  Or dontcha think.
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