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The founding fathers, who in their time saw and used the potential for sharpshooters with Rifles to engage many-times larger forces using inaccurate muskets, ne
by GauntletWizard 12y ago
The founding fathers, who in their time saw and used the potential for sharpshooters with Rifles to engage many-times larger forces using inaccurate muskets, never envisioned that longer-range, more accurate, faster-rate of fire weapons would exist?
- bcg1 12y agoNot only that, most of the framers of the Constitution likely had high quality classical liberal arts education, not the watered down public school training that exists in USA today. To think that they never thought about how technology might advance is almost laughable. It is silly to assume that just because the technology didn't exist yet, that it would be impossible for them to conceive of it. "Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent." - Ada Lovelace, 1842