National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed widespread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
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ReplyDeleteDefine "assault weapon". As far as I'm concerned, these people have the right to bare arms. If the government takes our guns away, who will protect us from them? And before anyone says anything, I'm not a liberal/republican/democrat. I'm an American. Remember boys and girls, stand for something, or fall for anything.
ReplyDeleteGovernor Gage? 1776? Assault weapons?
ReplyDeleteIs this real? Is this America?
ReplyDeleteBoston - what country?
ReplyDeleteI just looked at the Boston Globe archives and found the 7/29 (the date on which this supposedly happened), 7/30 and 7/31 editions. There is no mention of this, so I must conclude that the story is the crock I thought it was.
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ReplyDeleteDo a little more research on Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage. Maybe the story will become a little more clear for you.
Ever hear of the battle of Lexington (and Concord)? When I was in school they were always grouped together, though I doubt they even teach them now.
ReplyDeleteAlso I think the government has gotten confused between the right to bare arms (or bare anything, frankly) and the right to bear arms!
"And this, people, is how the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775."
ReplyDeleteThis is how the source article ends, and how America will rise up against an oppressive gov't once again.
Yes it is time we rise up against our government by paying attention to who we vote for.......we need to revamp out government from top to bottom....violence wont be the answer.......we need to make politicians lives miserable and pay attention to whats going on around us. The democratic party is going for the easy support. It is time for the free ride to end. This needs to go town by town....
ReplyDeleteIt's time to assault the government , they have gone too far , then and now.
ReplyDeleteTake up arms and start the revolution!!
Queensgirl 52
ReplyDeletewhat's happened to you? most of your kind keep their head in the dirt or up someones butt.
What's happened to us you ask? One tax too many, one abuse of power too many, one excessive use of force on peaceful citizens too many! Boston tea party uprising was ONE tax too many - that's what happened to us!
ReplyDeleteComing to a town near you when the confiscation begins. There will be lots of dead kops.
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