hogshead
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Trent prepare to be mad. Great read. "In our circumstances, to accept them, would be to deserve them." Same is true today.
An interesting photo from one of the recent pro-gun protests
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chipcom
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I wonder how many gun owners thought of this when they gleefully registered for their permission to carry a concealed firearm.
230RN
2A was "political" when it was first adopted.
Trent said,
I'm in the same boat with you. I remember being taught a lot of things both in the classroom and in textbooks that seems to have been "massaged" and "sanitized" in today's edumication system.
There was a big brouhaha in one of the boards recently about a modern commonly-used text which quoted the Second Amendment as "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people [militia] to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
The outrage in this "version" centered around the insertion of the qualifier "[militia]" in brackets by the editors of the text.
I still remember one of the Readers we used in elementary school which described in great detail the life and times of rural colonists, where such things as live turkey shoots, loading and firing flintlock rifles, and the manufacture of rifled barrels, were described in detail.
(Not to neglect the girls, the same Reader book described cooking and sewing and spinning and such things as quilting bees and the like in similar detail.)
Annnnnnnd, I still remember when purchase of firearms did not require a form 4473, which has now become "normal" to today's shooters.
Aannnnnd, one could purchase firearms through the mail! Nowadays this concept incurs gasps of shock and horror, even to today's most dedicated 2A-ers.
By gum-golly, if "they're" ever to come after us, they'd better come after we older folks first, we "living historians," who still remember what Freedom was really like before the revisionist lawyers and "historians" got hold of the Second Amendment and contorted its intent and meaning so badly it's unrecognizable.
Ayup, by cracky!
Terry, 230RN
I'm in the same boat with you. I remember being taught a lot of things both in the classroom and in textbooks that seems to have been "massaged" and "sanitized" in today's edumication system.
There was a big brouhaha in one of the boards recently about a modern commonly-used text which quoted the Second Amendment as "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people [militia] to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
The outrage in this "version" centered around the insertion of the qualifier "[militia]" in brackets by the editors of the text.
I still remember one of the Readers we used in elementary school which described in great detail the life and times of rural colonists, where such things as live turkey shoots, loading and firing flintlock rifles, and the manufacture of rifled barrels, were described in detail.
(Not to neglect the girls, the same Reader book described cooking and sewing and spinning and such things as quilting bees and the like in similar detail.)
Annnnnnnd, I still remember when purchase of firearms did not require a form 4473, which has now become "normal" to today's shooters.
Aannnnnd, one could purchase firearms through the mail! Nowadays this concept incurs gasps of shock and horror, even to today's most dedicated 2A-ers.
By gum-golly, if "they're" ever to come after us, they'd better come after we older folks first, we "living historians," who still remember what Freedom was really like before the revisionist lawyers and "historians" got hold of the Second Amendment and contorted its intent and meaning so badly it's unrecognizable.
Ayup, by cracky!
Terry, 230RN
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Fryerpower
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The state of Tennessee specifically forbids the collecting of model or serial number of the guns used in qualifying for the Hand Gun Permit. Yes, they know I had access to a gun and most likely have a gun. That's it.I wonder how many gun owners thought of this when they gleefully registered for their permission to carry a concealed firearm.
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