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Question of the Day
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
On a cold spring morning, 246 years and a few days ago, a military force duly empowered by the rulers of the nation scoured the countryside for weapons, fully intending to seize those weapons that they believed perhaps rightly were going to be used in hostile activities directed at the rulers.
Around 5 a.m., the military force encountered about 80 armed civilians in the center of a town about 10 miles from their base.
They ordered them to drop their weapons and disperse. The civilians hesitated, shots were fired, and eight of the civilians countrymen of the soldiers and marines who fired upon them were dead.