Dueling with pistols among two consenting adults, (preferably one liberal and one conservative) should be legalized.......
Can anyone say Pay-Per-View?
A complicated change in the State Constitution being sold as merely cleaning up archaic language?
Yes, I would be suspicious.
Future new item if this passes:
“A man, who killed a rival, defended himself in court by saying it was a duel, not murder.”
I remember reading that this was one reason that duels were very formalized, with challenges given and accepted before witnesses, selection of weapons and time, and carried out with seconds. If the rules weren’t observed, it wasn’t an honorable duel. And, the formal procedure lowered the likelihood of murder versus death by assumed risk.
As if a liberal would ever show up to a duel.
I prefer that D.C. take up this practice as replacement for the time consuming filibuster.
We should all be able to carry, but I do not think dueling is a good idea.
We’ve got enough killing on the streets in our nation as it is.
“I do not believe I ever would have the courage to fight a duel. If any man should wrong me to the extent of my being willing to kill him, I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done, and of the time, place and distance separating us, when I executed him. If I should do another such a wrong as to justify him in killing me, I would make any reasonable atonement within my power, if convinced of the wrong done. I place my opposition to dueling on higher grounds than any here stated. No doubt a majority of the duels fought have been for want of moral courage on the part of those engaged to decline.” — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Totally legal in the Isle of Mahn.
Authorize only Japanese Broad Sword Dueling
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.
Liberal killing liberals as a matter of law ,,,,, I approve .
Avast! Have at thee!
CC
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.
Great idea.
Time for the gangs to settle their turf wars honorably.
5.56mm
Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian fined Sweetcakes by Melissa $135k for exercising their First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. Of all the horrendous acts of bullying by the Ctrl-Left in the last decade, that was by far the worst. If that evil thug ever went anywhere that dueling was legal . . .