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LadyHistorian's avatar

If Course guns were before 1776. Gunpowder was invented in China. Moved across Europe. It was what ended the dominance of knights on their destriers. Very displeased, because a COMMONER could kill a knight—and Did!

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LadyHistorian's avatar

Blunderbuss is perhaps the word you were looking for.

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It could fire a lead ball or a handful of smaller balls with the effect of grapeshot—a kind of early cluster munition.

A black-powder rifle fired a ball about the size of a large marble.

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Daniel Appleton's avatar

It did MORE than " level the playing field ", one could say !

Catapults might still have a kind of place. A large mechanized slingshot of doom.

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Daniel Appleton's avatar

The sign saying " Thank you Lord Jesus for President Trump " is probably making Jesus say, " Hey ! Leave me out of this, m'kay ? ".

It reads like the height of ignorance - like something that my redneck cousin might pull out of her derriere.

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Ronald Robertson's avatar

And he's proving that nothing can be done to stop him. THE USA IS Totally powerless to stop this dictator from completely taking control of an entire country, which last year was the global icon of DEMOCRACY. GET READY FOR HORDES OF GESTAPO, GULAGS, MARTIAL LAW AND ABSOLUTE TYRANNY. JOBS, THE ECONOMY AND SMALL BUSINESSES WILL FOLD ..SOON. Unthinkable 5 short months ago!

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Daniel Appleton's avatar

I'm pretty sure that most MAGATs are racist. They'd love to live back in the 1950s when most non - white people were maids, groundskeepers, maids, gardeners, etc.

I grew up in a neighborhood where, when you saw non whites, they were usually in 1 of the groups which I mentioned, but I have evolved in the decades since. MAGATs prefer hate & willful ignorance.

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