(December 21, 2012 at 1:21 am)popeyespappy Wrote: Actually Shell the evidence would suggest they wanted the people to be as well armed as the regular army.
Quote:Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. -Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.[/quote]
That's what I said, essentially.