Posted on 02/10/2015 6:12:13 PM PST by StevenCrowder
You do realize that I’m a comedian, right?
Guess not. Ya might want to work on that.
I wouldn't say that rifles were better per se than muskets, but for different applications -- speaking in terms of the American Revolution at least. Rifles look longer to load and could not take a bayonet, making riflemen extremely vulnerable, so riflemen were often paired with musket-armed light infantry for protection (with the Kentucky long rifle the load has to be whacked down the first part of the way with a starter, but the shorter, heavy Jaeger rifle used by the German mercenaries needs a mallet to hammer the load into the barrel -- not very practical). George Washington had a distaste for riflemen, and wanted to limit their numbers in the Continental army to no more than two regiments (pretty sure it's two). At the battle of Lexington and Concord, the number of colonists carrying rifles was probably close to, if not, zero -- many of them had rifles of course, but when going to fight they grabbed their muskets.
One for one the rifle is far more accurate, but from a strategic point of view it has some serious trade-offs.
Not to mention the incredible difference in medical care available. Any torso wound pre-20th century was a death sentence, and it would often be a slow agonizing death.
Now shooting victims survive most of the time. Relative to the medical care, the old muzzle loaders were much more deadly than today’s firearms.
lol, says the person who wanted a comedy video “without the skits.”
Just lighten up. Conservatives need to have fun too.
Mwah.
First, at the time, everyone had basically the same weapons. Civilian, military, militia - all more or less identical weapons. So if you want to go that route, we civilians should have M-16s, M-60s, etc. Technically we do, in some places that don't infringe your rights, with the right paperwork you can own basically any firearm you can afford and find.
Second, if a libtard is going to argue that the 2nd Amendment be limited by the technology of the day as of it's writing, well then, does that apply to the other parts of the Bill of Rights too? Does that mean any "new" religions founded since then are not protected by the 1st Amendment? Or, does the 1st Amendment only apply to "free speech" from a soapbox in the town square, and not to say, telephones, blogs, e-books, email... Maybe the 3rd Amendment only protects your home if it happens to be a log home and/or be balloon-framed with plaster-on-lathe walls. Maybe the 4th Amendment only applies to papers, not electronic records. (actually there are some idiots arguing exactly that...sigh)
The fundamental lesson many anti-gun libtards need to learn is that a right is a right. It is independent of how it is expressed or realized. Life expectancy has improved from 1776 when it was but about 35 years. Our fundamental right to life doesn't end at 36.
But they will care about a gallows, which is where they belong. That's the retribution part of my tagline.
If the Second Amendment only covers muskets, then the First Amendment only covers Gutenberg printing presses.
You combine wit with fact.
I remember that copy. I may have it in my files but that was long ago.
bump
Here is another way of looking at it ... since those muskets were also the standard US Army infantry weapon of the day, tell the libs that you’ll accept a law that says civilians can own and carry the exact same weapons as US infantry, whatever those weapons happen to be.
From what I’ve read, the best rifle was the British Ferguson Rifle. some were taken off dead British soldiers at KING’S MOUNTAIN in which the riflemen from the hills out shot them.
I still have my Brown Bess musket from Bicentennial days. Load it up with 12 gauge AA wad w/shot & it goes kaboom!
The arrogance of the gungrabbers never ceases to appall. Gun rights advocates “simply aren’t our kind of people”, they observe while sipping their aperitifs.
Elizabeth Warren could personify the archetype.
and guess where abortion was back then.
like now, it wasn’t anywhere in the constitution.
it was a capital offense.
i guess the cops can only search the amish buggies now too.
Dang internet hecklers! You can’t embarrass them in front of their dates, what are you gonna do?
The founding fathers only meant for the militia to have single shot muskets. The rest of us should be able to own whatever we want.
lol I see what you did there.
GATLING Guns and fully auto WWI machine guns [heavy] were legal in 1918 for ownership by citizens up til 1922 til the govt used the excuse that they might be stolen by criminals to rob banks......duuhhhh- leeme see that`s 1775-1922 =hmmm 33 carry the 1 = 147 years then it`s illegal- ??? This is crap!!!
After WWI the War Dept sent all of the American Legion posts in 1920`s working German machine guns.
WW2 GI`s shipped home German/Japanese mortars, machine guns, flame throwers, pistols to their parents thru the US MAIL as souvenirs til 1946 when the govt ssaid “illegal!”— [guess] “they might be stolen by criminals to rob banks”
viz
LEGION GETS MACHINE GUN AND RIFLE
The Lake George Post of the American Legion has-received from the government a German machine gun and a German Mauser rifle.
Ticonderoga Sentinel , Apr-June 1926
ELIZABETHTOWN
—Frank A. Stevens has received numerous souvenirs from his son, Durand, who is a Sergeant attached to the Signal Corps in the South-west Pacific. They consist of shell and woods and money; a flame thrower; a flag; a telephone, and many other items of interest.”
‘Essex County Republican’ Mar 3, 1944, p1
“Crown Point Soldier Sends Souvenirs Home-
Pfc. Roy S. Marsha , son of Mr. & Mrs. George Marsh, Crown Point, has sent a German pack, Italian bayonet, two Italian knives, with fascist insignia on the case, an Italian pistol, ...” Essex County Republican. 1945
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