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The Story Of How Samuel Colt Made Men Equal
« on: August 02, 2020, 03:32:43 pm »
The Story Of How Samuel Colt Made Men Equal
The Federalist, Jul 31, 2020, Tony Daniel

During the 1830s and ’40s in the United States of America, Samuel Colt invented and patented a handheld machine that changed the nature of personal liberty for human beings around the world, and transformed the lives of his fellow Americans. The sign you see in bars and barbecue establishments (I just saw one stuck to a booth seat at Dreamland BBQ in Tuscaloosa last week) is as dead accurate as a Colt sight used to be: “God created men, but Sam Colt made them equal.”

Or, as Colt put it in a letter to an English associate: “The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other, and my arms are the best peacemakers.”

When you are in possession of five (or six) rounds of pure mayhem that you can carry at your side and hold in one hand, the long eons of arbitrary oppression of the physically weak by the physically strong has ended. A 98-pound 13-year-old girl can shoot and kill a 400-pound bear attacking her. Or a six-foot-tall, musclebound rapist. Or a spindly secret policeman come to cart her and her family off to the gulag.

The past is the one place in American life where we can lower our weapons and consider our common heritage,” Jim Rasenberger says in the opening chapter of Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America, a new biography of Colt. Unfortunately, Rasenberger doesn’t follow his own advice.

Revolver is replete with ahistorical apologies for Colt’s sins against present-day leftist orthodoxy. But Rasenberger’s greatest weakness is to downplay the great consequence of Colt’s invention. It made men equal. Rasenberger becomes authorially apoplectic at times that revolvers were used against American Indians and Mexicans, for example—as if only Americans of European descent ever pulled a trigger.



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Re: The Story Of How Samuel Colt Made Men Equal
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2020, 04:20:08 pm »
I have wondered sometimes how quickly firearms in this country would have evolved had it not been for Sam Colt and John Browning.
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