Mandatory Gun Ownership

[Jumptrout51]

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/02/opini ... hases-too/

What are your thoughts?
Shouldn't everyone have to own a gun?

[fly n fish]

My son is a reporter for the News Journal in Pensacola. He wrote this the other day. It's about another American hero as far as I am concerned.

http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl ... 1101310307

[wevans]

Just an FYI

From 1792 to 1903 every able bodied American man between the age of 18 and 45 had to own a gun, it was the law.

In 1792, the US Congress enacted the first Militia Act. Here is an excerpt:

""That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of power and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder..."