Destroying History

[threetango]

The left is coming.

https://www.guns.com/news/2019/03/14/gun-control-and-then-they-came-for-the-museums#disqus_thread

 

[Supervisor42]

The left is coming.

https://www.guns.com/news/2019/03/14/gun-control-and-then-they-came-for-the-museums#disqus_thread

Australia.
A fine example of gun-banners succeeding in their quest and what happens next.
Let's say your occupation is 'gun-banner' and you make a successful living banning guns for years. Well, they are all banned, what do you do for a living now?:confused;
You have always worked for the government and have no skills whatsoever to work for the private sector.
You have to do something to justify your position and pay so what do you do?
You start kicking over rocks to find ANYTHING that resembles a gun.
Well, he found some 70-100 year-old guns in the museums :green man:Woop-te-dam-do.
Like they are a source of danger to the public.
It's sickening how they are going to mutilate them in the name of political-correctness. Idiots:bang Head:.

 

[Supervisor42]

How stupid is this?
Little known fact: Australia is larger than the US and is surrounded by thousands of miles of deserted coastline.
You could pull a ship loaded full of firearms onto most of their coastlines and there wouldn't be a single human for 20 miles.
If you think we have an unprotected border, theirs is only protected by miles of open ocean.
Their 'black-market' for firearms is alive and well which means only criminals can buy guns.
Brilliant. :bang Head:

 

[VThillman]

Are there gurus out there teaching the selection, shaping, conditioning and use of the staff? Are there techniques for their use in close quarters?

 

[Supervisor42]

Are there gurus out there teaching the selection, shaping, conditioning and use of the staff? Are there techniques for their use in close quarters?

That would probably be a big moneymaker in Australia.
The best they have nowadays is a baseball bat, and all of those are aluminum now.
The Aborigines are now more technologically advanced. They still have something to shoot:

50 yards:

 

[SHOOTER13]

The Founding Fathers learned this first hand...

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[VThillman]

That would probably be a big moneymaker in Australia.
The best they have nowadays is a baseball bat, and all of those are aluminum now.
The Aborigines are now more technologically advanced. They still have something to shoot:
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50 yards:
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Um, forgot the word. . . atlotl?

 

[SHOOTER13]

Atlatl...

A primitive tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in spear throwing, and includes a bearing surface which allows the user to store energy during the throw. It may consist of a shaft with a cup or a spur at the end that supports and propels the butt of the projectile.

You were close VT...

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[tazo2503]

Damn dude, what don’t you know...

 

[Supervisor42]

Atlatl...

A primitive tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in spear throwing, and includes a bearing surface which allows the user to store energy during the throw. It may consist of a shaft with a cup or a spur at the end that supports and propels the butt of the projectile.

You were close VT...

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It really impressed me (and evidently, invading British troops).
The power that the shaft (a round) hits, rivals a 20-gauge slug. About that same diameter and penetration.
And if you look at the 100yd target far back in the pic, they could easily hit it too; just took more tries.
I'm sure it's a really crude, inaccurate and simplistic weapon until you're looking at a 5' shaft stuck thru your body:bigeyes:
For Australians and their gun laws today, it's probably the most lethal* weapon they can buy.

*not effective indoors.

 

[SHOOTER13]

A primitive but quite effective tool that was developed around the globe at roughly the same time BC...to extend reach and double the power of the thrown object...

Amazing really...cultures not in contact with each other developing similar technologies

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[Supervisor42]

A primitive but quite effective tool that was developed around the globe at roughly the same time BC...to extend reach and double the power of the thrown object...
Amazing really...cultures not in contact with each other developing similar technologies

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History. (on topic)

http://aboriginalwar.blogspot.com/

"Australia was declared by the British to be unoccupied - Terra nullius - at the time of the English invasion. Yet this land was inhabited by perhaps 1 million indigenous natives in 1788, spread far and wide across the continent in family groups and tribes."

The Aboriginal people were considered 'animals' not humans, so killing them was no big deal.

"No peace was ever offered by the whites. Complete extermination was seen as the ultimate, achievable objective.

It eventually became accepted amongst the white population during the nineteenth century that extinction of the race was inevitable - almost according to divine providence - thus alleviating any widespread feelings of guilt or shame on their part. Such a belief in the eventual extinction of the Australian Aboriginal people is still widely held throughout Australia."

And if Australia's stupid gun laws weren't enough embarrassment....

"In January 1788 the British invaded the island continent now known as Australia. Over the following years those invaders would use all their manpower, resources, and weaponry to subjugate the indigenous people, in a war herein referred to as the Australian Aboriginal War. This may come as a shock to most non-Aboriginal Australians, for no references to the Australian Aboriginal War will be found in the standard histories of this continent. Yet the facts bear witness to the truth of its occurrence."

ie: not history:bang Head:.

Kinda like if the liberals succeed in erasing the Civil War from our history,
We'll suddenly appear to be much nicer people

 

[Supervisor42]

A primitive but quite effective tool that was developed around the globe at roughly the same time BC...to extend reach and double the power of the thrown object...
Amazing really...cultures not in contact with each other developing similar technologies

On topic, Destroying History, Australia today: