Chapter 2 is Worth at Least $12.50
Just two brief excerpts to titillate you:
"The battle, according to one Jacobite officer, lasted a full three minutes. At 3 a.m. the Highlanders were guided over the morass and drawn up in a line. They fired once, then threw down their muskets and charged with their broadswords at the government forces. As Gardiner had feared, the Dragoons fled the field, leaving the foot to be crushed up against the park walls of Preston House."
[The British lost 600 dead and 1200 prisoners, the Highlanders lost 36. Not until the Bears-Patriots Super Bowl...but I digress...]
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"In contemplating the events of September 1745 for their models of universal history, the Edinburgh philosophers concluded that men were so weakened by their commercial existence that they no longer knew how to fight, or to die. Even the most good-natured of them, David Hume, saw 'men fallen into a more civilized life, entirely unfit for the Use of Arms.' "
[By the way, what starter guns do you all recommend for the boys? I was thinking some light Berettas, but should we be compromising on stopping powereven at this early stage? Isn't that like giving them skim milk? It's a conundrum...]
posted by Anonymous at 10:29 PM
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As Kalil Gibrahm said "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
Or as Elmer Keith said "The ..270 Winchester is a damned adequate coyote rifle."
A formula where their age tracks the bullet size, in mm, should work nicely.
So, learn the .22LR at age 5, working up to the .50 BMG by the time they are 13.
This information comes courtesy of "Massad Ayoob's top 20 child rearing / home invasion tips"
Tough call, but the established thinking is to focus on stopping power UNTIL the permanent teeth come in; then you have to work on finesse. I suggest Ruger's Bearcat with a nice Barami Hip Grip which clips snuggly on both Pampers and Huggies.
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