(no subject)

You know what they also didn't have yet in the late 18th century? Bullets. Those little arrowhead shaped things we've only had for about 200 years replacing metal balls, sometimes built with "soft noses" for an exit wound orders of magnitude larger than the entrance wound. Try convincing me the founding fathers expected and intended for people on the street (not even getting into what color and gender and social class they would have assumed of such people) to be carrying firearms which shoot hundreds of such bullets in a minute. Just try.

Posting this comment in response to the Highland Park mass shooting in lieu of my usual lengthy canned second amendment rant. Please know, any and every rebuttal to my positions presented in the last few years is already covered by that. You'd have to be innovative to come up with one that isn't refuted. It'll be back next mass shooting if you don't want to bother hunting it up in my archive now.