[TheForge] Militia: way OT

[GRAF]

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Mike Graf

Peter Hirst wrote:
> Not at all.  But they were  well-regulated.
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> From: "Andy Gladish" <gladish at cablerocket.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:20 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] Militia: way OT
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>> 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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