TexasRifleman
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RedLion said:The wiki page never states that sulfur and saltpetre were used together as a medicine.
Not sure what else to say to be honest. It's pretty clearly stated in the article you quoted.
Saltpeter was known to the Chinese by the mid-1st century AD and there is strong evidence of the use of saltpetre and sulfur in various largely medicinal combinations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder#China
This entire thread serves no useful purpose. Many of the arguments read like they were straight out of the Brady handbook.
Guns are inanimate objects and their use is determined 100% by the person holding them. Anyone who believes otherwise is, in my opinion, insane.
Whether the origins were for warfare or not still doesn't have anything to do with 'criminal use'. Warfare is not necessarily a criminal or even an evil act.
Inanimate objects do nothing and have no meaning by themselves.
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