[Knitting A Conundrum]

Didn’t matter who said it to me...it was the truth of the saying...he probably meant the bits about overthrowing powers that the governed feel are tyranical..but spouting off about what the founders thought about an armed citizenry, and the need for virtue, and the necessity of guarding liberty will certainly get you a bad reputation nowadays in some quarters! They don’t want to hear it!

[nicollo]

That's ridiculous. You've used the words of someone who is entirely opposed to your point of view to advance your ideas. Be more careful:

he probably meant...

There's much, too much of that around here lately.