Should we make "arms" and "weapons" ?

[Firestormalpha]

a_decent_1, it's not so much that people in general want to fight. It's more that people see it as a highly probable risk and they'd rather be prepared should it occur. That doesn't mean there aren't people who want to fight. There are plenty of those. They latch their claws into any reason to pick a fight. Just the same we have the complete opposite. The pascifist (sp?), those who are completely opposed to violence.

[a_decent_1]

Fair Enough,

Who developed the first BOMB By the way?

[Stratos]

Well, the Chinese invented the gunpowder, IIRC...

[a_decent_1]

Ummmmmmmmmmm,

Our Friendly Neighbour CHINA.
And Who Used it first?

[Bozos of Bones]

Somewhere around year 1000, a chinse man named Tseng Kung-Liang invented gunpoweder. If I am not mistake, he also invented a magnetised needle that pointed south. Anyway, more than two hundred years later, the chinese invented the bomb, in 1784 a mister Henry Shrapnell invented the shrapnell charge. The charge was delivered by cannon, not thrown. At the early 1900s, the safe throwing grenade was invented, also in Britain. Grenades an bombs have been used since the 15th century, but they were very unsafe, time of explosion could not be guaranteed. One out of every three or four grenades exploded prematurely, and one ou of every three thrown did not explode at all.
This is without counting the inventions of the Nobel brothers, who's dynamite and nitroglycerine were not supposed to be an instrument of war, but a construction tool. When Alfred saw what he invented was used to kill people by the hundreds,and that his own brother Emil was killed in an experiment with nitroglycerine, he wrote a will in which he left all his money for the Nobel Peace/Chemistry/Physics/Literature and whatnot Prize. The prizes are still being funded out of the money Nobel earned by inventing dynamite.

[ 06-03-2005, 12:58 PM: Message edited by: Bozos of Bones ]

[Jorath Calar]

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I expect Adecent1 to make a "Breathing, good or bad for you?" soon...

Seriously, as much as I am against weapons, war and human suffering in general, I am not so naive to think weapons will ever be "outlawed" or uninvented.
Not as long as people make money of making them and not while people can't agree which invisible man in the sky to believe in...

[Bithron]

I think...

Well I like shootin stuff so Hell yea More guns, but people would be more peaceful and tranquil without weapons...There would also be a problem with animals because think about it you have no chance against a bear without a decent rifle....


I say... Yes, although not a powerful yes.. More like a leanient yes..

[ 06-29-2005, 07:53 AM: Message edited by: Bithron ]