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A wife comes in from the porch. “Frank! Git your gun. Edna just told me that General Washington wants y’all to meet down at the store. Something about the British a coming up the road. They got some Indians with ‘em, too!”

The man sets his book down, “Damn! You mean like right now!”

“Well, yeah. General Washington wouldn’t have got all suited up if’n they wasn’t a coming.”

Putting his boots back on, the man trudges toward the back of the house. “Sarah! Where’s the gun?”

“If it ain’t in the pantry you probably put it under the bed. Try there.”

Not finding the gun in the pantry, the man lays down, fumbling beneath the bed. After a moment he locates the weapon behind the chamber pot. Pulling it out, he sits on the bed, checking the action. Then he returns to the floor, once again feeling around for something. After a bit, he brings out a brass container with a snout, and a small leaver on the side. Shaking it, he finds that its empty. Once again, back to the floor to retrieve a leather bag. Opening the bag he finds six lead balls, and nothing else.

“Sarah! Where’s the powder!”

Her voice comes from the kitchen, “Now you know you used that powder last spring when we had to deepen the well!”

The man slaps his forehead. He remembered that indeed he’d used the pound of black powder to add a couple feet to his well that was producing muddy water. He also remembered that after the blast, he had to climb down into the hole anyway with a pick and shovel to complete the task or he’d have simply traded mud flavored water for gunpowder flavored water. He reasoned that since he was meeting the others at the store he’d find powder there. Fresh powder would be better anyway.

He began to check his gun. It was an old one. He hadn’t actually fired it for some time. Pulling the hammer back, he looked at the flint, designed to strike a piece of steel, producing a spark that would hopefully set off a bit of powder in the pan which would hopefully set off a charge in the barrel that would hopefully drive the lead ball out of said barrel that would hopefully hit SOMETHING British! He wouldn’t know right off because upon squeezing the trigger, he would be closing his eyes and turning his face away. If he didn’t do that all the whizz, flash, bang would get in his eyes. It was an equal match because the British would be squinting, also. The Indians had it much better. They used arrows. “White man CRAZY!”

As he gathered the gun, bag, and horn, his wife came to him with some food. She was concerned, but it was understood that a militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, her husband was automatically a member of that militia, and had to bear his privately owned gun because George Washington wasn’t gonna buy no guns or powder. Frank didn’t even like the gun, that being the reason it was in such disrepair. Frank was a farmer. He’d knock a pig in the head for meat, and didn’t have to shoot corn!

The Minuteman army would rally to fight at a minute’s notice, hence the term, “Minuteman!” When the “Injuns” were run off, and the village secure, they’d disperse, go home, and throw the gun back under the bed until next time. There weren’t any discharge papers either. They just went home!

Standing armies did away with all this. Men that never went home and worked with guns everyday were the product of the Civil War, but weren’t really polished until after World War II. With the draft during the war between the states, the Army ballooned up to the numbers required to fill a new innovation. The “National Cemetery!” After each war the numbers would go down, and the guns would again go “under the bed.”

Standing armies, drones, F16s, and all the public and secret armaments in government hands have retired the militia as a viable force for attack. The militia is good for assisting during a natural disaster to prevent looting, and protect property, but does not have the ability to challenge a modern standing army, and certainly not the American standing army. Americans do have the right to bear arms to protect their homes from roving gangs of ill parented drug addicts with no conscience roaming the streets, effectively replacing the British and Indians of days gone by.

A nineteen year old kid, not old enough to buy a beer, not man enough to have a steady girl, on psychotic drugs, with police constantly at his house does NOT have the “right” to bear arms! He has the right to bear a Teddy Bear! That having been said, the thirty-five year old father next door certainly does have the right to defend his family from a psychotic brat who continues to slip through the cracks in the system because lazy “public servants” won’t enforce existing laws or use common sense to serve and protect the community.

We have to get some perspective folks! To the left I say, learn to count! You are NOT going to confiscate three hundred million guns! To the right I say, you need to take a breath, count to ten, and realize that if we, of this generation, can’t figure this out, those kids on their way to Tallahassee right now will figure it out FOR us in about five years! This is their world, not ours. I, myself, have fallen victim to the logic of guns in pickups “back in the day,” but that world is as far removed from the kids today as the man fishing for his musket under his bed in 1776. Our world was Ozzie and Harriet. Their world is active shooters, gangs, The internet and false safety of school walls. You better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone because times they ARE a changing!

The Butcher!

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