Re: Are Guns Really a Friend of Freedom?


"Stalin" <Stalin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >Here's your original guerilla statement; " Anyone who knows
>>anything about the weaponry available to the 13 colonies knows that
>>18thC muskets were pretty much useless in what we now call "guerilla
>>warfare", the very same kind of warfare that America's mythology
>>glorifies every 4th of July. Once again, it was disciplined soldiers
>>fighting in ordered ranks that defeated Cornwallis, not Daniel Boone
>>look-alikes."
>
> So it is. And, even given my very limited grasp of the English language, I
> have a hard time taking that statement to mean that "guerilla warfare is
> useless". What I DID say was that 18thC muskets were useless in
> guerilla-style warfare, notwithstanding all the "evidence" of
> historically-absurd movies like the "Last of the Mohicans" or "The
> Patriot".

So it is your contention that the rebels fighting guerilla actions didn't
use muskets?

Cite please.


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