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Weird Scenes is actually a really striking book, at least to a guy who doesn't know any of that stuff. I put a bunch of pages from it in a pdf here. Here's just a few:

No, we don't have the troubles that caused Hitler to gain power. Hitler said he was going to make himself dictator before being elected. The people wanted him to be dictator. The savings of the middle class was wiped out by the Weimar Republic hyperinflation. And middle class jobs made less...

We helped overthrow Germany, twice. We sent their enemies guns. And fought against Germany. We tried to keep Vietnam from being overthrown. We sent them guns. And fought for them. We kept Korea from being overthrown. We sent them guns. And fought for them.

You've mistaken me for someone else. Your rebuttal does not touch on my words. To emphasize what I said, the total population of the U.S. able to bear arms, from the calculations in The Federalist, was 625,00 to 750,000, and the militia was nearly 500,000. In other words, the militia was just...

Well, the Judiciary was supposed not to have a will other than to execute its own internal functions. From thinkforaminute.tumblr.com/post/641257415670628352/the-federalist-part-1-selections-from-the

Here are a few pages from The Federalist: From thinkforaminute.tumblr.com/post/641257415670628352/the-federalist-part-1-selections-from-the So, reversing the calculations shown on page 321, you get the total number of men able to bear arms to be between 625,000 and 750,000, and it says the...