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Chevy,

Regarding your sig... How does one beat a *gun* into a plowshare? A sword, sure... But a gun?

There was alot of iron or steel in guns. Especially cannons. I imagine a musket had about as much steel as a long sword.

Now modern firearms, not as much, but still sufficient to recycle :D

Craig

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There was alot of iron or steel in guns. Especially cannons. I imagine a musket had about as much steel as a long sword.

Now modern firearms, not as much, but still sufficient to recycle :D

Craig

The phrase "beat sword into plowshare" is biblical (e.g http://bible.cc/isaiah/2-4.htm - one of many), and of course refers to converting the sword into a farming tool - a sign of peacetime and the end of war. This makes sense as you are simply reshaping one blade into another blade. Thomas Jefferson is inexplicably and inaccurately credited with the phrase "Those who beat their guns into plowshares will plow for those that don't." A gun of that era is mostly wood with only metal working parts and a barrel - which are not suited to being "beat" into a plow blade by the average person.

:stirpot:

It's a known phrase, an old one at that, but the substitution of the word 'gun' is clearly a contemporary pro-gun politicization of the phrase, along with the requisite false validity by incorrect attribution to a revered public figure. (I know Chevy's sig didn't have the false attribution)

:popcorn:

Plus, good luck beating a Glock into a plowshare. :D

(IB "Good luck beating a Glock at anything..." :bitchfight: )

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The phrase "beat sword into plowshare" is biblical (e.g http://bible.cc/isaiah/2-4.htm - one of many), and of course refers to converting the sword into a farming tool - a sign of peacetime and the end of war. This makes sense as you are simply reshaping one blade into another blade. Thomas Jefferson is inexplicably and inaccurately credited with the phrase "Those who beat their guns into plowshares will plow for those that don't." A gun of that era is mostly wood with only metal working parts and a barrel - which are not suited to being "beat" into a plow blade by the average person.

The phrase may have originally been about swords but I imagine that muskets in Jeffersons time still had plenty of metal in them. The guns may have been "mostly wood" but the barrel was still the principal component of the weapon and fairly heavy. Even that Glock is still mostly metal by weight.

Craig

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