[Pilsner]

One overlooked aspect of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland is that it was a failure of gun control. After the failed rebellion of 1717, the British Government had placed restrictions on the possession of weapons on the Highlanders. But the implementation of those restrictions was largely left to the Lords and Chieftains.

Since their willingness to vigorously enforce the gun control rules of the British Government was basically inversely proportionate to their propensity to rebel against the British Government, when Bonnie Prince Charlie landed, the Lords and Chieftains loyal to the British Government found that their disarmed tenants and clansmen were in no position to resist the firearms and swords in the hands of the tenants and clansmen of the Lords and Chieftains who joined Bonnie Prince Charlie.

One doesn't expect Liberal Democrats to have ever read any real history, but I'm a bit surprised that the Jesuits at Fordham didn't drum a bit of it into Cuomo's head.

[One Name]

Some people will just never get it.