LOL, I pushed a button there Puke
This fun little story has been wandering the net for years, and if you google for it you will find dozens of copies of it, mostly on pro gun sites showing the evils of gun control.
But there are more to this story. If you don't see any relevance to the US domestic scene of today, try to exhange Thomas Gage with Paul Bremner and Lexington with Fallujah.
Eerie isn't it !