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Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
My understanding is that in modern warfare guns barely kill anyone, especially in terms of the fraction of fired bullets that hit an enemy, and that small arms mostly do suppressive fire type stuff while actual combat deaths come from stuff like artillery and airstrikes.
Training rounds are also usually counted in the "it takes 15,000 rounds to kill an enemy". idk, it's a disingenuous stat.
I mean collapsing buildings from extreme range seems to be far more deadly tactic than taking direct gunfire.
Then again lots of victims of artilerry are civillians, and many "combatants" are just combatants because they are "military age males"
Yeah, it's pretty gross. Media laps up that kill ratio narrative though. :/
Most gun discourse in the US is people posturing and talking out of their asses, so this is par for the course.
Cannons were more likely to harm the person firing them than their target though in many cases.
I would simply not stand right behind the cannon when it fires.
Nothing says non-lethal like going through the entire house on the other side of the street and hitting the car parked outside lol.
Cannons aren't lethal!
Me: stuffing pots, pans, rocks, glass, and pokemon cards down the barrel to prove a point
In America, can I buy Howitzer for self-defense? I don't want to kill anybody, so no rifle for me thank you.
Yes, totally legal, you just need to pay for a tax stamp and file some paperwork then wait for approval. The real limit on personal artillery ownership is the expense, the fact that most arms dealers won't sell to civilians, and the difficulty of aquiring ammo of any kind. Any explosive ammo needs, per round, a 200$ tax stamp, approval from the atf that can take up to a year, as well as special storage requirements that usuallt have to be approved by the fire marshall. I think you also need an explosive's license in a lot of places, and again, basically no one will sell to you anyway.
bro nukes are not lethal. there have been over 2,000 nuclear detonations since 1945, how many do you think killed people? less than 1 percent
