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Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Tue Dec 9 19:05:53 UTC 2008
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>
>> So, having a sword is better than having a gun? I mean, the sword
>> came
>> before guns. And I do believe there was MASS adoption of the sword.
>
> Not really. A far larger percentage of Americans own guns than would
> have ever owned swords in any civilization, and that's probably true of
> the world in general. The sword was rarely even the military weapon of
> choice.
That's my point. It's not what came first. It is what happens to be best.
(And I would debate the last line only because the Roman Legion was the
most lethal pre-gunpowder force in the world. The phalanx be damned. :)
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