Posted on 04/10/2017 12:50:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
How about between two liberals...
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.
“Dueling with pistols among two consenting adults”
Why limit it to pistols?
There is a story that Abraham Lincoln, when challenged by a very short man, chose axes in six feet of water.
RE: “A man, who killed a rival, defended himself in court by saying it was a duel, not murder.”
Where are the formal papers to prove it?
Ham shot first!
RE: Ham shot first!
He should have practiced....
The next question is this — who would have been better for the United States alive, Hamilton or Burr?
As if a liberal would ever show up to a duel.
It was cavalry swords, and since Lincoln was much taller with a much longer reach his adversary ran off.
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.
RE: I prefer that D.C. take up this practice as replacement for the time consuming filibuster.
To paraphrase Slick Willy: “It looks like We’ll just have to win elections then”.
“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.
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