XPost: can.talk.guns, alt.guns, alt.rec.guns   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: oldpink@nltc.net   
      
   The Lone Weasel wrote:   
   [...]   
   > the militia amendment so Congress couldn't disarm their slave   
   > patrols.   
   >   
   > More to it than you like to admit, eh Sandshitter?   
      
   Oh, but wait, there is considerably more to it than YOU like to admit or   
   even know.   
   The original purpose of the NRA was to train men in the use and handling   
   of firearms so that they would be better prepared to use them if called   
   to duty in a major conflict.   
   This was a direct reaction to two major historical incidents:  The Civil   
   War, and the formation of a group that came to be known as the Ku Klux Klan.   
   It turned out that most Union troops were woefully inept with weapons,   
   which was a major reason for the high casualties suffered by the Union   
   (aside from General McClellan) during the earlier years of the war,   
   especially.   
   Also, the NRA wanted a way to have men (and women, btw) able to defend   
   themselves from outlaw bands, KKK especially.   
      
   [...]   
   > Collective right.  Only the people collectively have a right   
   > to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment; no   
   > individual serving in the state or federal military actually   
   > has a right to keep arms or bear them independently of being   
   > ordered to do so.   
      
   It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.   
   Yep, folks, welcome to Postmodernism on parade.   
   --   
   And what exactly is a joke?   
      
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