Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 05:36:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: cjclark@home.com, ragnar@sysabend.org, tlambert@primenet.com, mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, noslenj@swbell.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD"] Message-ID: <20000329133624.5372F37B55A@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200003290351.UAA29470@usr05.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:51:35 %2B0000 (GMT))
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> > This nation (the United States) was born from armed citizens > with as good or better weapons than their oppressors rising > up against tyrrany. This was less than 225 years ago, which > is only about three times the current adult life expectances. > 1776: British Army: muskets and cannon. Revolutionaries: muskets. not too inequal 1999: British Army: tanks, arty, rifles Revolutionaries: rifles. ouch. trying to fight against a combined arms unit with only rifles is a real bear. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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