What Would It Be Like If We Went Back To Dueling Like In Alexander Hamilton's Time.

[TheMastersNemesis]

You wonder what it would be like if dueling and defending honor were the rule of the day. One can only imagine the nightly news today. Watching a History channel special on Hamilton. Boy was it brutal. He even lost a son in a duel.

[jmg257]

1. Anyone particular you want to face?

[Downtown Hound]

2. If I ever am going to fight to the death for any reason

The last thing I'm going to do is stand there and let someone shoot me.

[hamsterjill]

3. This!

I'm probably going to cheat any way that I can, too!

[rzemanfl]

4. I'd be dead for sure.

In a cemetery in Savannah, GA there is a grave of a young army officer who died in a duel with someone who used to be his friend. The duel was back in the early 1800's. They exchanged five volleys and neither one hit the other. The sixth shot got the guy right in the heart. You'd think after four tries or so they would have decided it wasn't meant to be.

[randr]

5. I would quickly solve half of our problems

[safeinOhio]

6. Today it is called

Road rage and cars are the weapons.

[NeoGreen]

7. Are you advocating smooth bore, black powder, hand loaded...

...pistols or modern day hand guns?

Plus, as I understand it, the duels were kept nominally secret on an official basis. It is my understanding that they were officially illegal, but generally tolerated on a social level.

Any historians want to weight in?

My guess that if it returned as a social practice today, it would be generally Republicans shooting Republicans.

[H2O Man]

8. One of Aaron Burr's

closest friends and business associates created a turnpike going west from the Fort Stanwix Treaty line, just after the Revolutionary War. Part of it now serves as my driveway, and more as a nice path in the woods behind my home.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Duels shouldn't be necessary. We just have to encourage our lawmakers

to engage in spirited discussion of the important issues of the day. Like in Turkey...

Or Ukraine...

Or Korea...

Or (especially!) Taiwan...

[Aristus]

10. Crazed blockheads shooting each other in the streets, and a gigantic national, gun-related

body count?

That's happening already.

[NobodyHere]

11. Hamilton was an asshole anyways

[Jersey Devil]

12. Was at the dueling site many times

It is on the edge of the Palisades, the cliffs overlooking the Hudson River in Weehawken, NJ, near the site of the old 42nd Street Ferry and overlooking Manhattan.

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