From: Marina Brown <catskillmarina@gmail.com>
   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.
   You may be misattributing what I wrote.  Others added to my original
   post.
   > 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.
   >>>
   >>> <SNIP>
   >>
   >> 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 ;)
   >
   > <SNIP>
   >