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To: KLP who wrote (230323)	12/4/2007 3:58:19 PM
From: Hoa Hao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793804

One of my relatives served in the Pa militia at the Battle of Brandywine at the age of 16.

To: KLP who wrote (230323)	12/4/2007 10:50:36 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793804

http://www.tasigh.org/kevin/firearmq.html Those who would give up essential liberties, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety. --- Benjamin Franklin You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence. --- C. A. Beard Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerly exercised for the good of its victims may be the most opressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. --- C. S. Lewis I am convinced we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control. --- George L. Roman A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. --- Thomas Jefferson As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article [the Second Amendment] in their right to keep and bear their private arms. --- Trence Coxe in "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution", under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, 18 June 1789 Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower house; these altogether respect personal liberty . . . --- Senator William Grayson of Virginia in a letter to Patrick Henry