Re: Kiddie exercises his right to bear arms

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:49:30 -0800, cor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>May be you are right. may be "People" can not have two meanings there.
>On the other hand in those days "arms" meant something different.
>In those days they had no automatic weapons, no cesium 137 bombs, no Napalm,
>no tanks, no bombers, no cluster bombs, no home-made anthrax powder, no
>genetically modified camel-pox, no AK-47 dealers selling to gangs and 
>no IRscopes with laser guides. 

OTOH, they did have privately-owned field artillery and privately-owned
warships.

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