On Sun, 16 May 2004 12:06:04 -0400, Jeff Wisnia
wrote:

You and Gunner are projecting your own paranoia into Orwell's
declaration. If you're going to quote pro-gun advocates, quote ones
that really support your position. Don't use out-of-context quotes
from people who don't!


So, you disagree with the conclusions in the reference below that
getting those already gun owners into the Home Guard was intended to
preclude their joining the British Communist Party and using those
weapons to revolt against the established government?

To prevent dupes of Communist agitators from causing an armed
insurrection. The British government was not a tyranny. The Stalinist
form of Communism he was fighting were the potential tyrants, and
Orwell knew it.

So a US analog would be a writer encouraging people to join the
National Guard rather than a state militia with rebellious
intnclinations.