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Archaeox
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In 1791, when the Second Amendment was adopted in the United States, the state-of-the-art firearm was a flintlock musket firing paper cartridges loaded with gunpowder and a lead ball. Given the laborious loading procedures, a skilled soldier could fire at most two or three shots a minute. The smoothbore flintlock lacked both stopping power and accuracy; hence the need for lines of soldiers to fire from point-blank range at each other.

Nikolas Cruz did not come to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, toting a musket. Police say he came with an AR-15 rifle, which typically comes equipped with 30-round magazines and can easily fire 45 rounds per minute. And it fires not lead balls but .223 rounds that at close range could make the head of a Viet Cong soldier “explode” or turn his torso into “one big hole”.
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From an article by the Republican Max Boot, reprinted here:
http://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/the-us-second-amendment-is-being-turned-into-a-suicide-pact-1.2175419
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19-Feb-2018 09:43:07

Nosword

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i agree 2nd amendment argument doesnt really hold up 200 years later. right to bear arms to defend your free state. no civilian with any kind of firearm is gunna have a chance against a tank. or a drone strike

idk as an american i dont get why people would want to get in gunfights. i feel like im more likely to get away from a van or a truck than a bullet

but doesnt seem like any amount of mass death is ever gunna really change anything
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19-Feb-2018 15:17:42 - Last edited on 19-Feb-2018 15:18:31 by Nosword

Viktor J
Jul Member 2007

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Bobhaz said :
Sry my Viking counterpart I forgot about the burd and his.. issues (~:

How? I've been trying to for ages :(


Archaeox said :
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In 1791, when the Second Amendment was adopted in the United States, the state-of-the-art firearm was a flintlock musket firing paper cartridges loaded with gunpowder and a lead ball. Given the laborious loading procedures, a skilled soldier could fire at most two or three shots a minute. The smoothbore flintlock lacked both stopping power and accuracy; hence the need for lines of soldiers to fire from point-blank range at each other.

Nikolas Cruz did not come to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, toting a musket. Police say he came with an AR-15 rifle, which typically comes equipped with 30-round magazines and can easily fire 45 rounds per minute. And it fires not lead balls but .223 rounds that at close range could make the head of a Viet Cong soldier “explode” or turn his torso into “one big hole”.
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From an article by the Republican Max Boot, reprinted here:
http://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/the-us-second-amendment-is-being-turned-into-a-suicide-pact-1.2175419

Are you telling me you can't simply look at an almost 250 year old piece of legislation and take it as an absolute truth today? No way, I refuse to believe it. How am I then supposed to know which rights to grant my slaves?

22-Feb-2018 07:52:58

Archaeox
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Viktor J said :
Are you telling me you can't simply look at an almost 250 year old piece of legislation and take it as an absolute truth today? No way, I refuse to believe it. How am I then supposed to know which rights to grant my slaves?

Yeah, I'm terribly unreasonable like that ;)
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22-Feb-2018 08:09:45

Pachuli714
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Devon Clues said :
America will continue to be like this until all guns are banned tbh.


Right, who needs guns when you can just go on a knife killing spree instead. I'm looking at you Canada. American doesn't have a corner on crazy. We've got more than our fair share, granted but there are lunatics all over the globe.

The Hungerford Massacre [UK] - 1987 -- 16 dead, 15 wounded.

Luxiol, France -1989 -- 16 dead, 1 wounded.

Dunblane, Scotland - 1996 -- 16 children (all under 6 years of age) and 1 teacher.

Port Arthur, Tasmania - 1996 -- 35 dead, 18 wounded.

The list goes on and on... Germany, Ireland, South Korea, Belgium, Israel, Russia, Spain and even Switzerland.

09-Sep-2022 20:08:46

Archaeox
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Pachuli714 said :
Devon Clues said :
America will continue to be like this until all guns are banned tbh.


Right, who needs guns when you can just go on a knife killing spree instead. I'm looking at you Canada. American doesn't have a corner on crazy. We've got more than our fair share, granted but there are lunatics all over the globe.

The Hungerford Massacre [UK] - 1987 -- 16 dead, 15 wounded.

Luxiol, France -1989 -- 16 dead, 1 wounded.

Dunblane, Scotland - 1996 -- 16 children (all under 6 years of age) and 1 teacher.

Port Arthur, Tasmania - 1996 -- 35 dead, 18 wounded.

The list goes on and on... Germany, Ireland, South Korea, Belgium, Israel, Russia, Spain and even Switzerland.


I love the way you have to go more than 25 years into the past to find your examples, while in the US there are new ones every week.
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15-Sep-2022 09:34:50

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