As Connecticut lawmakers prepare to vote today on legislation to trample Second Amendment rights, I suspect they don't know the significance of this date in history.
April 3, 1775: "On this date, Lord Dartmouth urges General Gage to destroy the colonists fortifications, to confiscate their weapons and military caches, and to arrest their leaders on charges of treason."*
* As recounted in the Meriden, CT Morning Record on March 31, 1975
April 19th is coming....
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