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What does that permit provide for in TN? Is it just for carry/concealed carry, or purchase/ownership?
Mike
Head-Quarters, Cambridge, August 11, 1775.
SIR: I understand that the officers engaged in the cause of liberty and their Country, who, by the fortune of war, have fallen into your hands, have been thrown indiscriminately into a common jail appropriated for felons; that no consideration has been had for those of the most respectable rank, when languishing with wounds and sickness; and that some of them have been even amputated in this unworthy situation. Let your opinion, Sir, of the principle which actuates them be what it may, they suppose they act from the noblest of all principles — a love of freedom and their Country. But political opinions, I conceive, are foreign to this point. The obligations arising from the rights of humanity and claims of rank, are universally binding
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and extensive, except in case of retaliation. These, I should have hoped, would have dictated a more tender treatment of those individuals whom chance or war had put in y our power; nor can I forbear suggesting its fatal tendency to widen that unhappy breach, which you and those Ministers under whom you act have repeatedly declared you wished to see forever closed.
My duty now makes it necessary to apprise you that, for the future, I shall regulate my conduct towards those gentlemen who are or may be in our possession, exactly by the rule you shall observe towards those of ours now in your custody. If severity and hardship mark the line of your conduct, painful as it may be to me, your prisoners will feel its effects. But if kindness and humanity are shown to urs, I shall with pleasure consider those in our hands only as unfortunate, and they shall recieve from me that treatment to which the unfortunate are ever entitled.
I beg to be favoured with an answer as soon as possible, and am, Sir, your very humble servant,
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
His Excellency General Gage.
Gage received orders to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock, rumored to be near Lexington. When Gage heard that the colonists had stockpiled guns and powder in Concord, he decided to act. On the night of April 18, 1775, he dispatched nearly 1,000 troops from Boston. He hoped to catch the colonists by surprise and thus to avoid bloodshed. But all British activities were carefully watched by the patriots, and William Dawes and Paul Revere rode out to warn people in the countryside that the British were coming.
(sound familiar?)Even so, many representatives disagreed among themselves about the purpose of the fighting.
So the politicians are scared?
Good.
You of course have the 1st amendment right to post all your shit online... but it doesn't mean its tactically sound... or smart for that matter...
just saying.
What does that permit provide for in TN? Is it just for carry/concealed carry, or purchase/ownership?
Mike
Looks like they called his bluff.
Maybe they should take his roids away.