How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution

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So according to this guy/article, it was not only about taxes. http://click.email.cheaperthandirt.com/?qs=27a40165c4117f6775075a02c46e1ab271e803d84fc94c42c709ddbd117ada8e

How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution
By Woody published on September 4, 2015 in Consumer Information
Guest post by TJ Martinell, a blogger and researcher for the Tenth Amendment Center and ShallNot.org. Used with permission.

When people think of the causes of the American War for Independence, they think of slogans like “no taxation without representation” or cause célèbre like the Boston Tea Party.

In reality, however, what finally forced the colonials into a shooting war with the British Army in April 1775 was not taxes or even warrant-less searches of homes and their occupation by soldiers, but one of many attempts by the British to disarm Americans as part of an overall gun control program, according to David B. Kopel.

Furthermore, had the American colonies lost their war for independence, the British government intended to strip them of all their guns and place them under the thumb of a permanent standing army.

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True that. Go to a Project Appleseed Shoot, they do a good job of explaining the real causes throughout the weekend in their ‘Three Strikes of the Match’ timeline.

https://appleseedinfo.org/

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The mini-series Sons of Libery does a pretty good job at dramatizing the events leading up to the Revolution. Disarmament being the lynchpin and the key to the Crowns undoing in the Americas.

As The Motor City Madman puts it; “When the British taxed the tea they threw it in the harbor, when they came for their guns they shot the bastards dead”.