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Originally Posted by mikesinner
You mean like the right to bear arm before machine guns and sniper rifles were invented.
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Come on the first machine gun was within 100 years of that document, though multi shot weapons and some other very fucked up weapons were in use during that period.
Rifling of barrels allowed for snipers and sniper rifles back then as well.
These very same people had no issue with a citizen owning what would be considered a warship, cannons, and all sorts of high end weapons. They also know damn well how fast weapons get developed. They themselves witnessed leaps and bounds in weaponry.
I get the gun hang up people have, I really do. I just do not agree with most of it and the stats from either side of the debate rely to much on what if's.
Do I really need a fully automatic machine gun? no probably not, though I like having the right and the option. Just like I do not really need to own certain technology that is forbidden to be shipped to certain countries due to concerns of weapons development, but I do.