I love the “only part of a militia” argument - as my response is usually; yes, not only can we be armed we’re allowed to form militia’s !!! ...especially to Europeans, the concept of being armed is one thing, it’s another to think you’re allowed to organize like that...
Thanks for the info man. Tom jefferson was a great man and visionary. Nice to know a fellow ex-canuck is making it here in America.
—signed max americana, BC Conservative party district campaign team 2006, Burnaby corridor. Personal bodyguard to Stephen Harper when speaking at the BBy hall before stupid Tory asshats started causing sh*t at the forum.
Nice one, mate. I had to download it so I can show it to any lefty friends I meet with again in the future.
Keep up the good work! :)
Always love me some Crowder stuff!
Eh-yep!
Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne defines militia explicitly in 1777, leaving zero doubts to its meaning in 1777 after the Battle of Bennington Aug 16, 1777 :
The great bulk of the country is undoubtedly with the Congress, in principle and zeal; and their measures are executed with a Secrecy and dispatch that are not to be equaled. Wherever the king`s forces point, militia, to the amount of three or four thousand assemble in twenty-four hours; they bring with them their substance etc., the alarm over, they return to their farms. The Hampshire Grants [Vermont], in particular, a country unpeopled and almost unknown in the last war, now abounds in the most active and most rebellious race on the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm upon my left.
-General John Burgoyne, A State of the Expedition from Canada, as laid before the House of Commons, by Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified by Evidence; with a Collection of Authentic Documents, and an Addition of Many Circumstances Which were Prevented from Appearing before the House by the Prorogation of Parliament.
(London: J. Almon, 1780) xxv.
General John Stark defines “militia” in 1809
‘On August 16, [1777] a motley collection of militia led by John Stark... [Battle of Bennington]
In 1809, Stark, aged 81, declined an invitation to return to Bennington,but sent a letter that was widely republished in newspapers. Referring to his “men that had not learned the art of submission, nor been trained in the art of war,” Stark closed his letter with the famous postscript,
“Live free or die; Death is not the greatest of evils.”’
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