The Guns Are For You
Don’t ask for whom the guns are — the guns are for you.
11 min readFeb 21, 2018
In the wee hours of April 18-19, 1775, seven-hundred British troops marched out of Boston, in their North American Colony of Massachusetts, toward the villages of Lexington and Concord. Their immediate goal was to confiscate the arms and ammunition reportedly stockpiled there by the colonists.