The interesting thing is that the shot on Lexington Green didn't actually start the war. The colonists on the green were slaughtered, but the people didn't start lighting things up just yet.

The Redcoats went all the way to concord and pushed a small group to the North Bridge. Once they reached the bridge, they formed up in a street fighting formation when they were met by the militia who was spread out covering their location from a nearby hill. Once the Lobsterbacks fired, the militia returned fire and decimated the forces on the bridge (by shooting the commanding officers first).

After getting their asses handed to them, and failing to secure the colonists' powder and arms, the Redcoats started marching back to Boston.

The Revolutionary War began when some BAMFS decided to take the initiative and fire first at Meriam's Corner. THAT was when the war kicked off.

You're right.

How many people here believe abortion is murder? Like actually believe it is 100% straight up cold blooded premeditated murder of an innocent child? A fair portion right?

So why is it that the few times in the past when someone went into an abortion clinic and shot the "doctors", everyone on the the right was clamoring and tripping over each other to be the first to call it despicable and vile? If you were walking down the street and you saw someone standing with a 4 year old child and a butcher knife in their hand just about to cut the child's throat, would you feel justified and righteous in using your CCW pistol to stop it? Would you cheer if you heard someone had done that? I bet most of us would. What if it was a 1 year old child? A 6 month old baby? A 3 day old infant? We'd all feel it was totally justified and righteous to shoot someone who was about to murder those children right? When you know that someone is about to commit a cold blooded premeditated murder of an infant right fucking there, it's not wrong to use violence or lethal force to stop it right?

Except all those people who say they believe abortion is 100% cold blooded premeditated murder of an innocent baby don't stand up and cheer when someone does that exact thing to the murderers in an abortion clinic. Why?

Because it's easy to feel good about yourself and say that in a theoretical sense, abstractly, you would support things like that. You would support someone who used force to stop someone from murdering babies, or used a gun to stop a mob from beating someone to death, or burning a group of people alive that they've trapped in a building. It feels good to pump up your chest over a beer at your computer and say that you would be totally on board with that, if you were in that situation you might do it yourself, or you'd cheer if some hero out there did it. But when it actually happens it all gets a little too real and a little too scary, and all the would be internet heroes slink back to hide behind their screens or try to cast attention away from themselves by claiming that violence is wrong, and we have to be better than that, blah blah blah.

The right is so damn afraid of being seen as the bad guy that we even sell each other out and call those few who actually act on the principles we all espouse a villain, and we all know it. We can all say, "if I was driving by and I saw 8 Antifa terrorists beating a man to death in the road with bricks and pipes, I would draw and fire at them". But I promise that the minute that actually happens, a significant chunk of "the right" would be the first in line to sell that rescuer up the river and call him the bad guy in order to avoid themselves or our side being viewed as villains in the media. Fewer on TDW than other right leaning places are like that thankfully, but there are still some of them here. It's unavoidable.

And I've noted one other disgusting trait that does crop up here on TDW rather frequently. Cowards trying to shield their own cowardice by throwing up the smokescreen of "well, why haven't you done anything huh? What have you done". They know in their hearts they would falter if called to action. They know that if it was them, they would bitch out. If it were their neighborhood, they would close the blinds, turn off the lights, and hope the mob thinks they're not home. They know themselves, and they know they're afraid. So when they see people talking about not being afraid, it shines the light on their own cowardice, so they attack that light. Even something as simple as someone asking "Hey, what we can do to organize some kind of movement to counterbalance what the Leftist mobs are doing?" will be met with no small number of "Oh yeah, I don't see you out there doing anything tough guy. I don't see you charging into the fray." They attack the person trying to rally our cause because it puts their own cowardice into such stark contrast and they know it. So they need to bring those others who want more down to their level. They are terrified of action, so they feel they must berate and ridicule anyone who isn't to silence them and bring them low, so that they don't feel so bad about themselves. I can think of a few notable names of TDW users who do this frequently. There's one who stalks my profile regularly who is such a pathetic coward. They are so terrified of action, and they know it's contemptible and loathe themselves for it (but not enough to overcome their own fear), that the only way to sooth their own self-loathing is to attack others who even mention the idea of our side rallying to some sort of counterbalancing cause to oppose rampant leftist terror. These weak willed, craven, vile creatures will be the first to sell us out if they get the chance, as long as they can tell themselves it was the right thing to do, because that's the only way they can appease their own deep feelings of inadequacy and cowardice.