>>>>Good point, Charles
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>>>>To reiterate - in the 18th C. a militia was a band of concerned citizens banding together under a local leader. The infamous Green Mountain Boys of the Revolution are a classic example of what a militia was then.
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>>>Kind of Ye Olde Street Gang <g>
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>>Check out this book: Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past
>>http://www.amazon.com/Founding-Myths-Stories-That-Patriotic/dp/1565849213/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214833957&sr=8-1
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>>I thought it was going to be a typical "debunk the old stories" thing, but it turned out to have a much deeper agenda: prove that the American Revolution really was a people's revolution coming up from the bottom, not the creation of a handful of great thinkers. It's well-documented and pretty interesting. Talks about how we got from what really happened to the stories we tell today.
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>>Tamar
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>Gun control is in Canada. It's a social program started by liberals of course. It is going to cost the taxpayers a hundred million or so dollars said the liberals. Over a billion dollars later it still is a mess.
>Link - http://www.chuckhawks.com/canadian_gun_control.htm
>"Oops, we have an intruder. Honey? Do you remember the gun safe combination? Where is the key to the trigger guard?" And if you get this far without facing the intruder, then you must load the weapon. Good luck defending your home.

So you figure we should all own guns like in the U.S. where 49% of households have guns and still the country has the highest incidence of gun related crime including murder of any country in the world (that's not in a war)? Thanks but no thanks.