Now, read this piece of John Adams's argument in defense of the soldiers. What are the main points of Adams's argument? Check all of the boxes that apply. The soldiers had a right to defend themselves. "If an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is clear, they had a right to kill in their own defense; if it was not so severe as to endanger their lives, yet if they were assaulted at all, struck and abused by blows of any sort, by snow-balls, oyster-shells, cinders, clubs, or sticks of any kind; this was a provocation, for which the law reduces the offence.” The soldiers should not have fired their weapons. The colonists made the soldiers worried about their safety. - John Adams DONE Intro