No, I do not recall reading any of your posts for the last ten years. I may have but I don’t remember (I am, after all, an OldPossum and memories tend to slip nowadays).
It would be most interesting to see how either of us would react if placed in a courtroom situation and presented with telling the truth or perjurying ourselves over a matter of Constitutional law. I would hope that both of us would choose the patriot’s position and lie to the bastards.
I agree with your position since I think the Second Amendment means exactly what it says. But surely you know that all cultural/societal events are not going our way as the “progressives” have taken over the education system and are indoctrinating the children into their way of thinking, and it’s just a matter of time before we have to confront this sea change. It’s at that point that all of us has to put up or shut up. We either save the American way of life or give it up. I know what I will do.
And all this over that silly “lost at sea” crap.
Sorry if I made it sound that way, after all it's not like I'm the divine voice of Conservatism, whose writings must be committed to memory by all. People don't pay much attention to my ramblings anyway (and might be smart not to).
But I think on the gun issues we are pretty much in agreement, as for the guns "falling off the boat" thing. That joke has been around longer than Freerepublic. I don't think anybody would seriously say that. It's has just kind of become shorthand for "lie". So when one of us says that if the day ever comes that we are told by the government to register or turn in our guns we are going to say they "fell off the boat". We really mean that we are going to lie and claim our guns were stolen, sold, lost, destroyed, got damaged and were thrown away, whatever, as long as it's believable (unlike the boat thing) and the authorities would have a difficult if not impossible task of proving otherwise.