MeekAndMild
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I think that it's fairly obvious to anyone who has studied the matter that in history from the days of ancient Greece, though the Viking era and on to modern times there seems to be a consistent connection: armed = citizens and disarmed = slaves.
With this in mind I thought to post a few historical resources I found on the net. A couple of them are only tangentially related to RKBA but I believe that an understanding of history is important to comprehend our present day problems. Enjoy
http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA394933 "The Armed Citizen Pillar of Democracy", extract of the Master's Thesis by John D Richmond. The thesis is on a PDF link from this site.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBR/is_2_31/ai_76496209/pg_1 "The US Citizen-Soldier's Past, Present, and Likely Future" - armed forces
Parameters, Summer, 2001 by Peter Karsten
http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home?greekEncoding=UnicodeC This is an internally linked encyclopedia dealing with the general study of ancient Athens. Athenian democracy was a product of armed citizens; those who were wealthy enough to own weapons were members of the government and those who weren't fell into servitude.
http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/science+society/index.html A series of 35 lectures Matthias Tomczak presented which trace the evolution of society, science and technology. Lecture 8 discusses citizen - soldiers and the rise of the Greek civilization.
With this in mind I thought to post a few historical resources I found on the net. A couple of them are only tangentially related to RKBA but I believe that an understanding of history is important to comprehend our present day problems. Enjoy
http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA394933 "The Armed Citizen Pillar of Democracy", extract of the Master's Thesis by John D Richmond. The thesis is on a PDF link from this site.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBR/is_2_31/ai_76496209/pg_1 "The US Citizen-Soldier's Past, Present, and Likely Future" - armed forces
Parameters, Summer, 2001 by Peter Karsten
http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home?greekEncoding=UnicodeC This is an internally linked encyclopedia dealing with the general study of ancient Athens. Athenian democracy was a product of armed citizens; those who were wealthy enough to own weapons were members of the government and those who weren't fell into servitude.
http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/science+society/index.html A series of 35 lectures Matthias Tomczak presented which trace the evolution of society, science and technology. Lecture 8 discusses citizen - soldiers and the rise of the Greek civilization.