To: Munz
imagine what George Washington would have thought about this type of weapon? I expect he would have thought it a swell weapon with which private citizens could arm their privateers.


309 posted on
05/19/2011 11:55:26 AM PDT by
archy
(I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
To: archy
hard to say what they would have thought. remember that they were so afraid of traitors in their midst that they locked the doors to the congress and had guards outside with orders to kill anyone coming in or going out.
They would have feared anyone with too much power unchecked.
312 posted on
05/19/2011 1:36:59 PM PDT by
Munz
(All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
To: archy
Puckel, a man ahead of his time, or maybe the more things change the more they remain the same.
He reserved the special “square rounds” for the Islamists.
325 posted on
05/20/2011 4:03:42 AM PDT by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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