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Badger52 · 11-25-2012, 16:11

MR2's & GratefulCitizen's comments are germaine to why I'm currently finding this book an interesting read. The description at the above Amazon link is pretty accurate, as it examines what were individual tipping points in the small towns up & down the colonies by so-called "normal" people, vs. the typical focus on more written-about personages (who were elites of the time) and only what was happening in Boston, NY, and Philly.

Don't think we've seen a local "Committee of Safety" in East Ottertail, MN publicly shame a Fed official & cutoff their comms with DC, or run them outta town in disgrace, yet. Much was organized (and tolerated) in small ways, locally, before the smoke flew during another attempted "assault weapons confiscation raid."

Remains to be seen if another (unlikely) AWB is a tipping point. Or is a simple extra-legal "rule making" by the ATF tolerable?

11-25-2012, 16:11	#14
Badger52 Area Commander Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Western WI Posts: 7,000	MR2's & GratefulCitizen's comments are germaine to why I'm currently finding this book an interesting read. The description at the above Amazon link is pretty accurate, as it examines what were individual tipping points in the small towns up & down the colonies by so-called "normal" people, vs. the typical focus on more written-about personages (who were elites of the time) and only what was happening in Boston, NY, and Philly. Don't think we've seen a local "Committee of Safety" in East Ottertail, MN publicly shame a Fed official & cutoff their comms with DC, or run them outta town in disgrace, yet. Much was organized (and tolerated) in small ways, locally, before the smoke flew during another attempted "assault weapons confiscation raid." Remains to be seen if another (unlikely) AWB is a tipping point. Or is a simple extra-legal "rule making" by the ATF tolerable? __________________ "Civil Wars don't start when a few guys hunt down a specific bastard. Civil Wars start when many guys hunt down the nearest bastards." The coin paid to enforce words on parchment is blood; tyrants will not be stopped with anything less dear. - QP Peregrino
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