The greatest effect firearms have had upon history is to remove
the advantage the large and powerful have always had over the
small and weak.
Is that true in a practical sense? Tzarist Russian was called a
`musket empire' because its soldiers used muskets to put down the
natives.
In the 19th century in the United States, the Colt revolver was called
`the great equalizer' since it meant that women could act as feminists
and not be raped and killed by men as a consequence. In the 19th
century, was that phrase merely a hope rather than an actuality? (I
am speaking of large social movements, not the actions of a few in
places like Wyoming.)
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Robert J. Chassell
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