• Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    3 months ago

    And when it was written militaries where standing in lines firing round shot out of inaccurate tubes en-masse hoping that they might hit something. A single person with a modern SAW could have taken out an entire company unaided. You’re suggesting that there should be no adjustment based on changes to society and technology because it’s written on a specific piece of paper.

    • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Grapeshot. Pickleguns. There were many advancements in weaponry during the lives of the founding fathers but I don’t remember them writing all about how they were wrong because weapons are too dangerous for mere mortal civilians to own.