[Marcella]

“They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about.”

Time changes some things: Women these days are more likely to react when danger approaches than were women of those days. Even my mother's generation, in the late 1800s, would not have taken up a firearm even though she was raised on a farm in Arkansas. The men did that and the women did not. My mother would be shocked to see the weapons I OWN.

She and my dad would be shocked to see I an growing food plants as I stayed away from the garden when I was growing up.

Many women have firearms now and would use them if the family was physically threatened by Hussein's “civilian army” and the women “would know very well what they are about”.

Also, people in the 1770s normally had stored food at home since the women canned food and stored various root veggies in root cellars. People mostly stopped canning when transportation became easy and stores had canned food from food companies. If the country collapses now for whatever reason, not many people will have stored food and millions will die so we are worse off in that area than they were in the 1700s.

[greeneyes]

My mother in law lived in a pretty secluded area When my hubby was just a child, some teenage relatives thought it would be fun to go out there and bang around making noise to give her a little scare(his dad was away working).

The tables turned when they heard her throw the bolt on a shotgun. (Something about that sound I really like-it means business). They were the ones who wound up being scared, and hollering don’t shoot. LOL

[B4Ranch]

I think the women of yesteryear were much stronger than you are giving them credit for. When the men of the family went out hunting the women were left alone to guard the children and livestock. They knew their man might not survive the hunting trip, they knew they would have to provide food and security for the children while their man was away. I am confident they knew how to use a rifle and a shotgun if happenstance should require them to.

[MHGinTN]

Imagine if you can a riot involving millions of half starved and diseased people, spread over hundreds of miles. This is the fate of Amerika under democrip rule rushing US toward collapse.

[papertyger]

Many women have firearms now and would use them if the family was physically threatened by Hussein's “civilian army” and the women “would know very wel

While I agree modern women would take up arms to defend themselves and their own, I seriously doubt they would take up arms for much else, let alone an abstract concept such as freedom.