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Old 04-12-2011, 12:46 PM
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I don't know anyone with cannons. Everyone then had rifles, ...
Actually, nobody had rifles (yet). They had muskets. Rifles extended the range of muskets several hundred percent. I don't think the Founding Fathers saw that one coming.
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Old 04-13-2011, 01:44 AM
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Actually, nobody had rifles (yet). They had muskets. Rifles extended the range of muskets several hundred percent. I don't think the Founding Fathers saw that one coming.
Wonder what they would think of private citizens possessing AK-47s and 50 caliber sniper rifles?

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Old 04-13-2011, 09:13 AM
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Finn, the problem is, everything around it is individual rights.

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Are you suggesting that the right to bear arms is more important to a democracy than a broadly interpreted protection of free speech?

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The Founders certainly believed that you couldn't keep the latter without the former.

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