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Happy 2nd Amendment Day

Happy 2nd Amendment Day April 19th, 2020.

On the night of April 18/19, 1775 a group of riders most notable a Silversmith by the name of Paul Revere. Rode through the Massachusetts countyside from Boston to Lexington and Concord sounding the warning that the "Redcoats are Coming" with the expressed purpose of confiscating the arms and ammunition of the Massachusetts Minutemen militia stored there. At dawn the morning of April 19th those Minutemen of Massachusetts were formed on Lexington Greens to face that British Governments attempt at disarming the people.

What followed was "The shot heard around the World" and the start of the American Revolution. History can repeat itself when we forget the lessons that it has taught us a great price.