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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: average joe who wrote (765883)1/26/2014 5:58:30 PM
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Hi average joe; Re: "You're right of course but at the end of The War of 1812 which Canada won and you lost ..."

So that's why we had to give Maine and Detroit back to the British. Hadn't realized that.

Re: "... a citizen could not go into a local store and buy an AR-15. ";

Well they couldn't buy an automobile either so by this logic, they should be illegal too. On the other hand, I did show that a citizen was able to, and did, buy a machine far more powerful, that is, a warship armed with cannon.

Re: "Right now a known lunatic can legally buy an assault weapon with full intention of inflicting carnage on fellow citizens ..."

Disregarding the question of whether or not "known lunatics" can buy an "assault weapon", LOL, I'll note that I just showed you that known lunatics can and did buy weapons of the largest strength then available, weapons which are *far* more powerful than an "assault weapon". An example of a lunatic buying such a weapon is Jean Laffite, the pirate, who helped repulse the British at New Orleans.

But the reason the British (not the Candians, LOL) agreed to a peaceful end to the war of 1812 with boundaries restored to the situation before the war was because of the privately owned weapons of American citizens. Namely those privateers I mentioned. By 1814 British maritime insurance rates for shipping between Ireland and Britain had risen to 13%. This was more than it had been when Britain was fighting essentially all of Europe. Lloyds of London put pressure on the British government to settle due to ship losses, which were about 2 per day and 80% of that was from privately owned warships:

Comparison of Navy vs Privateers during War of 1812

U.S. Navy

 Privateers
Total ships 23 517
Total guns on ships 556 2893
Enemy ships captured 254 1300


-- Carl
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