A bit of history.

It is always about the money.
Yep. One thing humans crave over liberty, is power. Money is just fungible power.

RIP to those minutemen who gave their lives for freedoms they would never enjoy 250 years ago this day, and also the poor British soldiers who laid down their lives in name of King and Country.

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Jstert wrote: "how sad our colonial forebears must be to see the massachusetts rulers of today."
Thank you for these words. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one that held this thought. Most the the objects the British were intending to seize are nearly impossible for the current residents of that state to own today. Thirty years ago my late wife wanted to give her nephew, who lived in Bedford, just a short distance from Lexington, a pellet rifle so that he could earn a specific scout badge. The state and local dictators in that place created a list of "demands" that were simply impossible to fulfill. We tried at least four times and each time, the local dictators blocked our efforts. We finally just gave up. I can't remember if it was before or after this episode that there was a news story that announced some members of a particular political party in the state legislature found the two firearms that had seen duty during the Revolution and were then mounted on the wall of the representatives chamber in the State House to be "offensive and dangerous weapons" and demanded that they be removed. And the traitorous cowards of that state agreed! Yet, just recently, like every year on the so called "Patriots' Day," I saw "re-enactors" proudly marching around with their reproduction flint locks and have to wonder what they have to go through to "own" these "dangerous and offensive weapons". Can't they see the irony, sadness and cowardice yes, cowardice in their actions, because they are clearly not willing to fight for the rights that so many others since have died fighting to preserve -- they simply like to play dress up and make believe one day a year.. It's probably not a coincidence that in recent years the main event on so-called "Patriots' Day" is a marathon because if events similar to what occurred in 1775 happened today, the good people of that worthless state would simply run away!
 
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It should be remembered that only about a third of the colonists were in favor of the Revolution. A third were loyalists (Tories) and the rest were neutral. The Revolution was actually a true civil war.
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This a revisionist myth - along with the cynical idea that money and greed were the prime motivators of the Revolution - that has been repeated so many times that many believe it without researching history. For some context:

The People's War
 
It was for me, because now I get to try to figure out which match trigger I want for my AR-15. Single or Dual stage, without worrying about their stupid gun laws.

Enjoy that when you can. What makes you think the US won't adopt a similar set of gun bans laws?. As transnational plutocrats rape and rob the land upon which they stand, they want to feel safe everywhere.
 
Enjoy that when you can.
I absolutely plan to.

What makes you think the US won't adopt a similar set of gun bans laws?
Nothing at all. I’ve been around long enough to see that stupid crap happen exactly as you described; but today is not that day.

So I’ll enjoy the brief respite from the fall into entropy while I can. I think I’m going with that two-stage.
 
Video series "The Story of America"
Hosted at whitehouse.gov.
Content provided by Hillsdale College. Only two so far.
 
As AlexanderA pointed out in Remarks #7, the 6,000 French troops under Rochambeau made a huge difference.
Under "American Intervention". Even though it is Wiki, there could be lots of truth in this long article.

I wasn't aware of this element in our War until several years ago, and I've read many random excerpts of European history for a long time and either forgot or wasn’t concentrating.

 
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As AlexanderA pointed out in Remarks #7, the 6,000 French troops under Rochambeau made a huge difference.
Perhaps even more important was the Battle of the Capes (mouth of the Chesapeake), when the French fleet under De Grasse prevented the British fleet from reinforcing / resupplying Cornwallis at Yorktown. After that event, the die was cast.
 
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