"Aim small, miss small"45 4 life wrote:Although I agree that training should not be required to exercise one of our rights in the USA, remember that when the 2nd was written firearm training for all youngsters was a given. Back in those days learning about firearms was a must, today there is very little if any training provided to young Americans.
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Also, this was likely true with farmers and their family, there were a number of Colonials/citizens in the cities that did not use guns, at least, I'm assuming.