There was this thing, you may have heard of it, called the American Revolution.

Yep. Was a fucking long time ago. Dont see how that relates to your current need for small arms.

Also, the need for weapons in everyday life had as much to do with being a frontier nation as with the revolution

Incidentally Urbane, Up until very recently the concept of militia was a strong part of the English consciousness. We held to a militia system for over a thousand years. It was the duty for every freeborn man to hold arms throughout the saxon and medieval period.

In British history books it is not called a "revolution" at all, but merely "The Loss of the American Colonies".

Not true Undertoad.

Well it was in the book I had. (1978, 3rd form public school)

I think the key there is '1978'. Believe it or not, progress happens even in blighty.

They are re-writing history?!

History isn't static. Historical scholarship is a constantly changing and revising affair. However, this is about how history is taught to children, rather than scholarship. How history is taught is and has always been subject to the political zeitgeist and prevailing orthodoxy. The book you are referring to is from a time when the concept of 'Empire' was still tenously clinging on, albeit it in terms of something lost. Nowadays, that concept is a historical one and brings little or no influence to bear upon the teaching of our young.

The UN and other socialist...sorry, of course I mean "progressive" elements continue to insist that we prove we "need" things in order to be allowed to keep them.

To my mind, how important it obviously is to these people that I be disarmed is some of the best proof I have that I "need" to continue to be armed.

I had British neighbors once upon a time who referred to the American Revolution as the American Rebellion and sported a bumper sticker that read "Paul Revere was a snitch!"

It's all a matter of perspective.

Brian

nope, we do call it the American Revolution.... and with good cause.... those colonials were definately revolting.....

geee...even the Australian ones? (who happen to be doing very well in the cricket atm) :)

especially the....the...aus....oz.....ab..... them thar lot down under...


(ashes? what ashes? hmmmph... it's only a game....)

How sad. And I thought you had a 'thing' for...ummm...aussies. ;)

ah, well. as I said, it's only a game.


mmmm......how game are you? (in best Leslie Phillips accent)