[TheForge] Militia: way OT

[Peter Hirst]

Not at all.  But they were  well-regulated.


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From: "Andy Gladish" <gladish at cablerocket.com>
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Subject: [TheForge] Militia: way OT


> On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:47:16 -0800, Peter Hirst <saltydog335 at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Get over it.  There is no well regulated militia, other than the National
>> Guard.
>
> It's pure romanticism to assume that the body of men who, as ordinary
> citizens, responded to emergencies by showing up with their own weapons in
> the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was very different from
> those available today.
> Sure, there's a lot of city slickers who don't own guns: there were lots
> of em back then, too.
> People don't change that much.
> In a real emergency we'd do the same thing we did Back In The Day.
> We've been taught that the guys Back Then were Stronger Better Tougher and
> to some extent that's true, but put the storybook stuff aside and we're
> pretty much the same.
>
> Andy G.
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