I’ve been hearing much blathering in the media, as well in personal discussion,
that the “arms” referred to in the Constitution’s second amendment apply only
to flintlocks and muskets. That our current “weapons of war” are just to darn
powerful for we mere serfs to handle, and should be left to the
“professionals”. Well, though I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here, let’s
look at that idea;
Maybe we should go back to using ye olde English longbow- due to the speed at which your average longbowman could shoot, this weapon is widely considered the “machine gun” of the middle ages. Hell, that thing was capable of shooting “armor piercing” rounds as well! It was powerful enough to punch through some pretty darn thick plate and kill the guy underneath it. I’m sure they capped their quiver capacity at ten arrows, just to be safe though.
And what about the lever action- that damn Yankee gun you load on Sunday and shoot all week? The weapon the Indians used to absolutely massacre Custer. Up to a 15 round magazine with those. Oh right, those are acceptable because you have to re-charge the gun for each shot, and they just shoot a pistol cartridge anyway. Silly me.
And then we come to the musket, flintlock, or whatever the hell you feel like calling it. The height of technology of it’s time, launching a .68 caliber ball of lead at a serious velocity, and dear God, is that a bayonet lug? Sure it only fired one round every minute or two, but there’s a good reason why every major army in the world at the time dumped their bows in favor of these. Why?
Technology.
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