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The history of gun control, part 1
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| June 7, 2007
| Sandy Froman
Posted on 06/10/2007 2:23:43 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Just received from the NRA pre addressed post cards for me to send to my Illinois representatives from me.
They have to be kidding!
My representatives are:
Senator Dick (Turban) Durbin
Senator Barack (Osama) Obama
U.S Representative Bobby (former Chicago Black Panther Minister of Defense)Rush.
I live in Cook (Crook) County, Illinois enough said.
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posted on
06/10/2007 7:26:34 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: neverdem
How any student of American history could have taken Bellesiles' book seriously is beyond belief.
I just did a search for the worde "rifle" in Tocqueville's Democracy in America. He describes entering a typical American farm.
"We entered the log house ... above the hearth a good rifle, a deer's skin, and plumes of eagles' feathers; on the right hand of the chimney a map of the United States, ... upon a shelf formed of a roughly hewn plank, a few volumes of books - a Bible, the six first books of Milton, and two of Shakespeare's plays..."
I did a similar search in TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. BY WILLIAM PRIEST (1802) and found so many references that I can not quote them all. Two quotes I must include:
"When his land is properly registered, his next care is to provide himself with a horse, a plough, and other implements of agriculture; a rifle, a fowling piece, some ammunition, and a large dog of the blood-hound breed, to hunt deer."
And the following story:
"I have heard a hundred improbable stories relative to what was done with the rifle by famous marksmen in America, such as shooting an apple from a child's head, &c; to which I could not give credit: but, I have no reason to doubt the following feat: as it was actually performed before many hundred inhabitants of this borough, and the adjacent country.--During the late war, in the year 1775, a company of riflemen, formed from the back woodsmen of Virginia, were quartered here for some time: two of them alternately held a board only nine inches square between his knees, while his comrade fired a ball through it from a distance of one hundred paces! The board is still preserved; and I am assured by several who were present, that it was performed without any manner of deception."
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posted on
06/10/2007 7:36:10 AM PDT
by
Hiddigeigei
(One doesn't have to regret the Enlightenment to be a conservative!)
To: neverdem
And that's what we'll talk about next week, remembering that if we ignore the lessons that history offers us, our children will pay the price with their freedom. It's too late. The country's toast.
Consider (on topic): once upon a time ex-cons could own guns. Now we take them (guns) away based on accusations.
It was a nice experiment, but it foundered -- on the rock of populism.
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posted on
06/10/2007 8:13:15 AM PDT
by
Clint Williams
(Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters!)
To: neverdem
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posted on
06/10/2007 10:08:59 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
To: neverdem
If Clayton Cramer doesn't post on FR, He needs to.
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posted on
06/10/2007 12:14:18 PM PDT
by
labette
To: Nailbiter
I never knew what said shape this state was in until I moved here last year. Not just the gun control, but liberal policies gun amok have ruined the state.
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posted on
06/10/2007 12:30:41 PM PDT
by
M1thumb
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