re: #161 Nyet

Which is why it was a mistake from the start.

“From the start” would be when we had no standing army, no city police or sheriff’s department or highway patrol or telephones, when a significant percentage of people needed to kill a deer or a turkey or a couple of rabbits every week or they don’t eat, when a significant percentage of people lived 20 minutes from their nearest neighbor, Indians and bears and Canadians attacked on a pretty regular basis…

No, it was not a mistake from the start.

It’s only later interpretations that made it a problem.