Let's not forget that muskets were "assault weapons" when the Second Amendment was ratified.
And contrary to whatever the Leftists claim, "the People" means the People, not the National Guard.
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2 posted on
03/28/2004 3:53:37 PM PST by
Prime Choice
(Hm? No, my powers can only be used for Good.)
To: Joe Brower
Ping of interest.
3 posted on
03/28/2004 3:54:51 PM PST by
Prime Choice
(Hm? No, my powers can only be used for Good.)
To: Prime Choice
Amen.
My guns guard Your Freedoms-
Consult tagline for details...
4 posted on
03/28/2004 3:56:47 PM PST by
backhoe
(What part of "Shall Not be Infringed" is so hard to understand?)
To: Prime Choice
Great picture. You do good work! ;-)
5 posted on
03/28/2004 4:05:00 PM PST by
NRA2BFree
(The Socialists are in control of our Congress. It*s time to clean house!!)
To: Prime Choice
Looks like good opportunity to point out the SAFER event will be held on Mother's Day, Sunday May 9, 2004 in Washington, DC. That's the Second Amendment Freedoms for Everyone Rally.
7 posted on
03/28/2004 4:08:15 PM PST by
Kay Ludlow
(Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
To: Prime Choice
btt
8 posted on
03/28/2004 4:15:23 PM PST by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: Prime Choice
9 posted on
03/28/2004 4:34:40 PM PST by
Jeff Head
To: Prime Choice; Mercuria; AnnaZ; incindiary; HangFire
Beautiful job.
I got a button at the last state GOP convention with similar words to that. T'was one of my faves of the buttons I collected.
To: Prime Choice
That's a "kickass" pic.
To: Prime Choice
Let's not forget that muskets were "assault weapons" when the Second Amendment was ratified. And contrary to whatever the Leftists claim, "the People" means the People, not the National Guard.
Sort of. Muskets, capable of being fitted with bayonets, were short-ranged weapons capable of being quickly reloaded, then used for follow-up work once those equipped with them closed with their enemies. Accordingly, the current equivalent of those early militia weapons would be short-barrelled fighting shotguns, still a nasty and effective weapon in close, especially indoors or at night.
The real *assault rifle of the American Revolutionary War period would have been Ferguson's breechloading flintlock rifle, which offered both the accuracy of the rifled weapons of that way with a speed of reloading even superior to that of those smoothbore *Brown Bess* muskets mostly carried by other British troops.
As a part of the federal standing army, the National Guard can scarcely claim to be the militia as described in the constitution, so it becomes difficult to believe many of their other claims beyond that point. It's clear that to those who wrote and ratified our constitution, the militia was the American people. And today's National Guard is the standing army many of them warned us about.
14 posted on
03/29/2004 1:45:35 AM PST by
archy
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