Common Murder Weapons and Their Alternate Uses

[DonCoquixote]

168. Not quite

Yes, the Bow is more advanced than a spear, however, can you honestly say that someone can do a mass shooting with a bow? Granted, I would not like to see a skilled archer go beserk, but the chances that someone can run and move about a mall or school without getting stopped is not good.

The Ar-15 allows someone to be ALWAYS ready to shoot multiple people. They are meant to allow one person, using one weapon, to mow down a group, then mow down another. Yes, the Greek archers could mow down a lot of people, but that is because they grouped up hundred or archers and put them in formation.

Of course, the best way to show this is history. The First Nations/"indians" had some of the best archers the world has seen. They were able to reload and fire faster than the Old English Yeoman could do with his Longbow. Of course, what happened to them versus Gatling Guns?, they were mercilessly mowed down. Let's address the issue of repeating fire, which IS what this is about. We know the Civil War had great generals, and that the Confederates had the home field advantage, the same one that allowed us to kick the British out a century eariler. The Union was the first army to introduce repeating rifles. The CSA soldiers would complain that they could out-fire them, they they could take that one more shot that meant the difference between dead and alive. The CSA lost, despite being helped by England and France.

Like it or not, a gun beats any other weapon at a distance, and when you allow one person to be able to shoot shoot shoot shoot and keep shooting, that person will overwhelm anything in their way that is not armed just as well.