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Entry: Gun Rights, the Militia, and Community Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/gun_rights_the_militia_and_community#31188 Post contents: Shay's Rebellion was hardly a "lawless veterans movement". It was a far more complex situation that in 1786 enjoyed the support of such 'bandits' as Thomas Jefferson. Please see http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north247.html for Gary North's review of the best scholarship regarding Shay's Rebellion. Historians note Washington's mixed feelings about militia, opinions that were in flux throughout Wahsington's long military career. Please see Mark V. Kwasny's "Washington's Partisan War", a work that gives far more credit to the militia than has most studies of the First American War of Secession. Washington saw his battles, but fortunaely not the war, in 1st Gen terms, while the militia wished to be able to live to fight anotherday. History is written by historians, who tend to invoke the 'Great Man' theory. Washington vs Clinton, Washington vs Howe, Washington vs Cornwallis - all struggles of the generals and some of their top subordinates. Rothbard and more lately Sseph Stromberg, have contested such a one dimensional approach and seek to give more credence to the nameless ones, who history has largely ignored. ST Sent at: 2008 12 02