by I was a guest on the Tactical Pay Podcast with Dr. Brett Grayson. We recorded the episode back in late August.
The podcast episode has now been released and it can be found here.
Brett and I discussed a number of things including the NRA and its troubles, the NRA Annual Meeting postponement, and curios and relic collecting.
Give it a listen.
I want to thank Brett for having me on as a guest.
Just now listened to this, and the thing about the order of the Bill of Rights isn’t correct. The original proposal had the first to be ratified as the third and the second to be ratified as the fourth. By the argument that what we know as the second was so important to protect the first, then that implies the Founders thought that Congressional pay was a much more important issue than freedom of speech, freedom to practice your choice of religion, freedom of the press, and the right to keep and bear arms. And apportionment is like the most vital issue ever by that argument. Because the first two proposed amendments weren’t passed at the time, but they sure as hell were proposed in that order.
I also don’t have time to dig into deep studies from original records, but that host’s take on ages and expectations of the colonial era are off. If you survived childhood diseases, then life expectancy was pretty reasonable for the era before modern medicine. The average age of the constitutional convention delegates was mid-40s and the oldest person there was in his 80s. So they did have experience with people not only living, but also legislating into their 80s. Term limits are a reasonable topic to discuss, but there’s not need to sell the issues with fake history that can easily be debunked.