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Perd Hapley

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Re: Why guns?
« Reply #50 on: May 13, 2013, 01:24:43 AM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on May 13, 2013, 01:09:50 AM
I refer back to Tench Coxe (quoted in the discussion on TFL) and his comment about "all the terrible implements of the soldier" being the birthright of Americans. Well dammit, if that stuff is my birthright, why can't I buy it?

Since you're a fellow grammar nazi:

Tsk-tsk. "Refer;" not "refer back." 
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Re: Why guns?
« Reply #51 on: May 13, 2013, 08:40:56 AM »
IIRC, the reason the Brits went walk-about to Lexington and Concord was to look for cannons.  Not muskets.  ;)
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Re: Why guns?
« Reply #52 on: May 13, 2013, 09:36:45 AM »
Quote from: scout26 on May 13, 2013, 08:40:56 AM
IIRC, the reason the Brits went walk-about to Lexington and Concord was to look for cannons.  Not muskets.  ;)

True, dat. 

Cannon.  Centralized stockpiles of black powder and musketballs.  NOT the individual muskets over the mantle of every man's hearth.
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Re: Why guns?
« Reply #53 on: May 13, 2013, 06:52:38 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on May 13, 2013, 01:09:50 AM
Over on The Firing Line a few days ago someone asked what we think the limits of the 2nd Amendment are. Someone responded that he should be allowed to own an F-16 and the guy who asked the question dismissed him as a nut.

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Why  ???

Because no honest man needs to go faster than the speed of sound ...?   =|
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Re: Why guns?
« Reply #54 on: May 18, 2013, 06:51:28 PM »
I think this goes here:

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Re: Why guns?
« Reply #55 on: May 18, 2013, 07:37:35 PM »
Where's that from?  'Cause I like it.
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Re: Why guns?
« Reply #56 on: May 18, 2013, 07:45:59 PM »
It's a poster you can buy from Ranger Up.  There are some pretty good stories in the RhinoDen.  And The Damn Few videos are funny as hell (if you are a veteran and get the insider jokes).

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3466307a5fe171d7e248ea78c&id=95ec174e1d&e=8d3c4926ca
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Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
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Put our backs to the north wind.
Hold fast by the river.
Sweet memories to drive us on,
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