Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Gun Controllers Unwittingly Support Unsafe Societal Conditions [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)about a modern phenomenon?
Swords are not firearms; neither are longbows, crossbows, slings, spears, javelins, atlatl, francisca, battle axes, claymores or pike. Despite the fevered dreams of romantic fantasy fiction readers the use of such weapons in war requires a lot of training in mass infantry maneuvers. Sparta and Rome both trained their populations in such tactics as did the other warlike ancient states and, in later periods, the Swiss the English and the Zulu all enforced such group training in with the preferred weapons of those nations.
Now to Justice Story who may well have been an educated man, this does not make his unevidenced opinion bear any relation to reality. If he put forward such an notion on todays internet there would be justified cries of "Citation needed"!