Would Founders be 'horrified' by today's firearms technology? :: 06/16/2011

"Triple-barrelled cannon found in Croatian fort is 'machine gun' forerunner designed by Leonardo Da Vinci," the UK's Mail Online reports .

"The cannon was discovered in a Croatian fort, but only now has it been confirmed it was designed more than 500 years ago by the artist and inventor," we are told. "He was the first to invent a breech-loading machine gun with several cannons in rotation which meant soldiers could be firing one, loading another and cooling the third."

The report includes a sketch from 1480.

OK, cool history. And yeah, da Vinci was one of the greatest geniuses from history. But what has this to do with the right of the people to keep and bear arms?

One of the arguments the gungrabbers use ad nauseum is that the Founders would not approve of the Second Amendment today because they could never have foreseen technological advances in personal weaponry. A common addendum is to claim they would be horrified, because the best a militia man of their day could do was fire one shot and then go through a multi-step routine to reload. His ability to get off another round was hampered by the design limitations of the day.

This, of course, is a nonsense argument . . . .

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