Quote:This country was not only founded upon the right to bare arms, but also is the reason we won it in the first place.
Mythology. The "Minute Men" who responded to the British march on Lexington were members of local militia companies who had been training with muskets. The whole point of the operation the British undertook was to seize supplies allegedly being stockpiled at Concord by the Massachusetts militia.
It was not until those militiamen were whipped into shape (by Von Stueben among others) that we were able to stand up to the British in a pitched battle. The notion of some bozo grabbing his hunting rifle off the wall and going out to shoot redcoats is absurd.
