<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">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.<br><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>Paul<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Nicholas Gier <ngier006@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com>; Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, April 20, 2013 11:21 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Huh?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv1831526978"><div dir="ltr">Hi Paul,<div><br></div><div style="">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.</div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style="">I agree with Tom and all historians who obviously point to the fact that it was primarily and fundamentally an issue about taxation.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Nick</div></div><div class="yiv1831526978gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="yiv1831526978gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Paul Rumelhart <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1831526978gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><div><span>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.<br>
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<span>So what he said was essentially true.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><br><span></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;">
<span>Paul<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1">
<font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, April 20, 2013 6:23 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] Huh?<br> </font> </div> <div><br>
<div><div><div><div><span style="text-align:left;">"What really started the (Revolutionary) War was the right to keep and bear arms."</span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;">- Two-time loser Gresham "Boom-Boom" Bouma at the gun rally in Friendship Square (April 19, 2013)</span></div>
<div><span style="text-align:left;"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;">------------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;">Ah, come on, Boom-Boom. Certainly that "No taxation without representation" thing has got to be in there somewhere. Dontcha think? Or dontcha think.</span></div>
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