Posted on 04/10/2017 12:50:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Authorize only Japanese Broad Sword Dueling
In a duel, both sides get a like weapon. Much more equal than Sharia Law.
Pillows would be comical and a waste of time.........
First they get to through baked newspaper flour grenades.
A bit over a decade ago, Chris Matthews invited Michelle Malkin onto his show and abused her verbally. The next day, Zell Miller appeared on the show and upbraided Matthews for his ungentlemanly treatment of a lady. Zell told Matthews that in an earlier era, he would have challenged him to a duel. Matthews looked rather nervous after that.
I suggest that we take the New Jersey state park in Weehauken where Burr shot Hamilton and turn it into the National Dueling Grounds. Politicians could settle their differences with each other and with political pundits. ESPN would cover it under the category of Marksmanship. It would have a salutary affect on our national discourse.
Can we pick “brackets”?
“I prefer that D.C. take up this practice as replacement for the time consuming filibuster.”
I agree, but make it mandatory. And for tie votes in the Senate, don’t let the Vice President vote to break the tie unless both duel participants are killed.
I see what you did there.
My 4th great grandfather was killed in a duel, but it had some unusual circumstances - it makes for an interesting but tragic part of the family history. The seconds loaded the pistols with powder & wadding so neither of the two dueling was injured .... the crowd (in on the joke) got a big laugh out of it. My 4th great grandfather was “unsatisfied” (20-20 hindsight - he should have left well enough alone), so they tried again - the account in the paper of what happened next was as follows:
The pistols were loaded as before excepting more wadding. The combatants took their stand this time at twenty paces; they threw up for the first fire, and Mr. PB won it; after discharging his pistol, he immediately turned about and run. Mr. H (provided the pistols), thinking there could be no harm done, with powder, called out to Mr. JB to pursue and make him beg his life; he accordingly run and soon came up with Mr. PB, seized him by the arm, and bringing the pistol in contact with his body, discharged the contents into
his side, part of the wadding penetrated into the lungs, the remainder was driven along the outside of the ribs and lodged by the back bone.
Mr. PB survived only 24 hours. He has left a wife and six children to lament his untimely end.
There can only be one.
Pic-one.
Liberal killing liberals as a matter of law ,,,,, I approve .
That’s one of those things you’d think you’d laugh about some day but somehow that day never really arrives. Good story.
Avast! Have at thee!
CC
Like the old joke ending:
911: “Are you sure he’s dead?”
Caller: “Just a moment...” [BLAM] “Yup.
Dueling didn’t have to be to the death. With swords, it wasn’t uncommon to just duel until first blood was drawn. There were even dueling swords with no edge, and a stopper about half an inch up the tip, so it couldn’t easily overpenetrate.
Yes, you could still have your eye poked out.
Dueling societies in Prussia (and later the German Empire) existed at many of the major universities. The goal was to get your “fashionable scar” not to kill people.
Swords; Highlander reference.
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