The Boston Massacre wasn't a massacre. Some kids were throwing snowballs and rocks at British soldiers, and some of them, in fear for their lives, opened fire. Only a few people died, IIRC. However, many see this event as the event that lead to the American Revolution. Why? When the news hit American newspapers (sensationalized, of course) Americans for the first time started to think that maybe, just MAYBE, the British soldiers were not there to protect the British citizens -- the American colonists. For many people, this was the first time they started to understand that the British crown did not see them as subjects, but as slaves. They were not part of England, they were part of the Empire. The events that occurred after the Boston Massacre roughly could be put in the following categories: * Organization: Men began to form groups, and those groups began to represent larger groups of people, and they began to trust each other and bind to each other. * Petition: They began to realize that they had to ask the Crown directly, and petition to be considered as something more than slaves on a distant continent. * Accumulating Grievances: They began to enumerate the injustices enacted daily upon them, and began to keep a ledger of whether it was worth remaining subject to the Crown. Of note, the organizational aspect -- we sometimes imagine that the American colonies were somehow born with the desire to unite and fight together. This was not so. What did Georgians have to do with Massachusetts or New York? The only thing that kept them together was the fact that they spoke English and were all part of the empire. But over time, they began to draw an identity together, and more importantly, began to act as a united whole. By the time British troops were marching on Massachusetts to "restore order", Virginia and other colonies knew that they were next, and knew that it was only a matter of time before their people would be fired upon too. So they decided to go in together rather than separately. Where are we at organization? We are MILES ahead of where our Founding Fathers were. We KNOW who our leaders are, and our leaders are in constant communication with us. If there is any aspect we are lacking, it is LOCAL organization. TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS, get to know them and figure out whether you are willing to kill and die for them. We have already laid all of our petitions to the feet of our insane masters, and we have already accumulated a long list of grievances. We have people whose blood is boiling, waiting each night for the orders from the president to rise up and restore our republic. But we can always do more. This is not the beginning. This is not even the middle. It is probably closer to the end than you think. Do NOT lose hope. Wake up tomorrow, thank GOD you are alive for another day, and talk to your neighbors about what happened. Spend some of your ammo on range time, and figure out whether you are willing to kill and die for the people around you. That will be the most important question you might have to answer.