Tommygunn
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steelerdude99 said:...
Tommygunn said:For those who are too enamored of the weekend warriors, I'd advise to study the Revolutionary War.
It was never written in granite we would win.
We COULD HAVE LOST.
It would have been easy. Even small instances might have turned the tide at some points. General Washington had his "butt" kicked out of New York City by the British. He led his defeated, ragtag Continentals to Trenton and achieved victory -- a necessary one -- there.
But, if one British officer had actually read one note he'd been given, rather than stuffing it in his pocket, the British would have known about Washington, and Trenton would have been lost.
Then what? Washington's army, either dead, or POWs, or at best dissolved....the British would have had the momentum....and we'd now be sipping tea at 4:00PM and be using poundsterling notes rather than dollar bills.
We honor and admire Washington, and others who fought and gave us our freedom today -- and well we should; it so easily could have gone the other way for them.
Not trying to take away from the David vs. Goliath fight of the colonist, the French were also fighting England at the time of the US Revolutionary War. They kept the most well equipped military of its time from giving the colonist’s rebellions their full attention. However, why England lost the colonies is now irrelevant. The founders of the new nation recognized that having guns allowed citizens to gain freedom from tyranny. It must have been important as it was the second amendment to be written.
chuck
Also true.
I would never deny the original intent of the second amendment.
I was only trying to point out real life practical realities.