Oregonian, you try hard and you mean well but you have a tenuous grip on reality. Killing civilians is not "stepping on some toes" - it is murder. The Founding Fathers were incredible people and every day we owe them a huge debt of gratitude, but if you read your history, you will find that they were in the minority. Approximately 30% of the colonists supported the Revolution. The biggest group simply didn't care. And a slightly smaller group supported the British.