[msg-84]

And the reason it is wrong is this: The government has and will always have more firepower than you, you and your neighbors, you and your like-minded friends or you and anybody you can conscript to your way of thinking.

George Washington, who by the way presided over the Constitutional Convention where the Bill of Rights were drafted - (for those in Rio Linda, that includes the 2nd Amendment) did not finish his life as a British subject. He, along with his neighbors and like-minded friends did however defeat an oppressive Govt. which was much better armed.

On another note, those of us that carry arms for the US Govt. don't have to be conscripted - we volunteer. If the author knew our political leanings he would not want to see a day where we start fighting the domestic enemies referred to in the oath that we take.

[Publius]

George Washington, who by the way presided over the Constitutional Convention where the Bill of Rights were drafted...

Incorrect. The Constitution was drafted at the Convention in 1787. The Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, which were proposed by Madison in 1789 at the insistence of anti-Federalists due to trepidation on the part of the states that these issues had not been addressed in the Constitution itself.

Madison actually proposed 12 amendments, of which 10 were ratified in 1789. In 1992, in a very delayed ratification, one of Madison's Twelve made it into the Constitution as the 27th Amendment.