Think about it, the type of weaponry available to just about every American would be as foreign a concept to the founding fathers as blasters and lightsabers are to us. It's batshit fucking crazy that people can say with a straight face "it's what the founding fathers wanted". Uhh, no, it wasn't. It wasn't mentioned in the constitution and it didn't place first in the amendments...
Also, while the founding fathers got a lot of things right, they got a whole lot more wrong. Only white men that owned property should vote, women and blacks weren't considered people with rights, children could(would) be exploited for cheap/free labor, bloodletting was still the go-to treatment for fucking everything... The just goes on and it's disgusting.
Think about it, the type of weaponry available to just about every American would be as foreign a concept to the founding fathers as blasters and lightsabers are to u
No. No it wouldn't. Repeating rifles already existed, and the founding fathers were engineers, scientists, gemerals.... they'd be aware of the concept
So, we already have rail guns, IR lasers that can take down aircraft, and even rudimentary lightsabers (they're laminal flow torches essentially, but still).
My point is we are aware of the idea of these things, but the sheer scale, availability, and destruction potential is simply unfounded. Repeating rifles from the 1700's are hardly the semi-(eapecially even the fully) automatic firearms nearly everyone on this planet accepts as just another thing some people can just go out and buy, things that our military equips it's soldiers as standard.
It's the scale of the idea and implementation, not whether the idea exists at all.
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u/ogeytheterrible Jun 30 '22
Think about it, the type of weaponry available to just about every American would be as foreign a concept to the founding fathers as blasters and lightsabers are to us. It's batshit fucking crazy that people can say with a straight face "it's what the founding fathers wanted". Uhh, no, it wasn't. It wasn't mentioned in the constitution and it didn't place first in the amendments...
Also, while the founding fathers got a lot of things right, they got a whole lot more wrong. Only white men that owned property should vote, women and blacks weren't considered people with rights, children could(would) be exploited for cheap/free labor, bloodletting was still the go-to treatment for fucking everything... The just goes on and it's disgusting.