Gun grabbing in Boston met with resistance.
 

BREAKING: Gun grabbing in Boston met with resistance

BOSTON - National guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19th 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 wide-spread 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.

One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that "none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily."

Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government's plans. During a tense standoff in Lexington's town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange. Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units.

Colonel Smith, finding his forces overmatched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat. Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as "ringleaders" of the extremist faction, remain at large.

April 20, 1775

Wow I don't know what to say on this issue but I will say people are sick of being dictated to by government made laws ---I always thought people were the Law and other corporations and governments enforced the peoples Law----The world is a sad place to be when you start killing your OWN ---GOD PLEASE HELP MY CHILDRENS FUTURE WHEN IM LONGER HERE AMEN

Simply Amazing the parallel. Good one.

Thinking maybe you didn't realize that is a recap of the start of the Revolutionary war in 1775

As RWilson just stated, Aussie, that was the start of the American Revolution, when a group of just ordinary citizens declared to the world that they were free man and were no longer going to be held under the rule of a dictatorial king on the other side of the world. It was our birth as a Nation, of a government of, for, and by the people. Sadly, it seems that history is about ready to repeat itself.

your right Des that's what im affaird of but here we have been disarmed already and the greed of goverments are getting worse all the time the world is the way it is becase they want it that way I really don't have any hope for the world now

Elect people that will allow you to re-arm. Find out where they stand before you elect them. It will take a Nationwide effort, and truly, I don't hold out much hope of every person you elect keeping their word. But the cost of freedom is constant vigilance.

The folks working for the legal fiction known as "government" obtain their powers from the people.

They don't allow us anything that we don't already possess.

In theory, that's correct... but try telling that to some cop that stops you for carrying a gun on your side in NJ. The FACT is they control us already, and the only way we're ever going to be able to regain control is by having people wake up to what's going on around them... and truthfully, I really don't hold out much hope. I think the USA will cease to be the "land of the free" in less than one lifetime. Much like Australia is now.