On 02/23/2017 07:15 PM, Marina Brown misquoted Jim...
I wrote the bit about outrunning a musketball...Yeah well perhaps I was
jesting. But what might happen if the ball hit a solid object, or thick
chopped pressed wool (imagine a peacoat on steroids) with a bunch of
undergarments are two different things. I'm not saying it wouldn't hurt,
or break a bone or something, but the ball would most likely get stuck
in the wool. Don't ask me for a test drive k?
Rr
On 02/23/2017 08:13 PM, Mirimir wrote:
On 02/23/2017 05:40 PM, Razer wrote:
On 02/23/2017 01:04 PM, Mirimir wrote:
On 02/23/2017 08:38 AM, Razer wrote:
On 02/23/2017 05:37 AM, jim bell wrote:
Court rules assault weapons are not protected under
Constitutionhttp://dailym.ai/2mmUuqG via
They aren't. You know why? When the Second Amendment was written, at 50
yards or so, you could literally outrun a musketball. If it didn't
bounce off your coat.
Sorry to bring up guns.
Um, Jim. I own a black powder rifle in a common musket calibre. I've
put a slug deep into hard beech wood at 50 yards. The musketballs fly
even faster than the slugs. With a good charge the balls have far more
energy than an AK-47 bullet. ....but it takes almost a minute to load
and it makes a pretty big cloud of smoke.
My black powder gun is rifled - the muskets were smoothbores and not so
accurate so the range i can hit things is better.
Besides, "Your puny AK-47 is useless. So, we need
to have at least some of our volunteer resistance show up with Stinger
missiles, some anti-aircraft batteries, maybe a submarine or two?" I
hear Soros has a fleet of A-10 Warthogs he might call into service too
if you talk to him purty.
For a credible revolution, you need real weapons and supplies, and
people who know how to use them. So you need substantial involvement of
trained military and veterans. With small arms and insiders, you get the
real weapons and supplies.
That seems pretty unlikely in the US. And it it did go down, the result
would arguably be some mix of military dictatorship and feudalism.
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ROTF! To be a revolution you need an IDEOLOGY.
Greed is NOT an Ideology.
Greed is a way of life in 'Merica. The ONLY accepted way.
Well, they call it "free enterprise" :)
Social atomization has created the circumstance that 'Merican families
and communities are not even understood as such by a large majority of
the planet's inhabitants...
ROTF! 'Merica is Doooooooomed! Bwhahhhaaa!
Well, maybe electing Trump wasn't a revolution, any more than electing
Obama was. But Trump and his people seem even crazier than W and his
minders. So yes, bad shit could go down ;)
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