According to Tea Party sweetheart, Sarah Palin, Paul Revere rode through Boston ringing a bell to warn “the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms.” Once called on her misstep, Palin denied that she made a mistake. On Fox News Sunday, she said that she knows her history and the that there were British soldiers in the area for years before Revere’s legendary ride, and that he was warning them, as well as his fellow colonists. …..sooooooooooooo Revere was warning British soldiers that they were going to take their guns away from themselves? Yeah, yeah that’s the ticket. Revere didn’t care who he warned, he was freedom of opportunity warn-er.
Here’s the article on her defending her statement.