dual personalities

How’s it goin’? It is still rainy and windy here. And kind of snowy. But later in the week we are supposed to get the real thing and some real cold temps. C’est la vie. January. Okay.

In the meantime today we toast Samuel Colt (1817-1862)–the man who revolutionized firearms manufacturing in the United States and who established Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company. He was born on this day 207 years ago.

Colt’s U.S. revolver patent gave him a monopoly of revolver manufacture until 1857. His was the first practical revolver and the first practical repeating firearm. One of his slogans, “God created men, Col. Colt made them equal,” became a popular adage in American culture.

Yes, when you are in possession of a loaded Colt revolver the long centuries of arbitrary oppression of the physically weak by the physically strong are at an end. And a well-armed woman is the equal of any man.

Dubbed the “Peacemaker”, the 1851 Navy Colt six-gun was the choice sidearm of such historical figures as James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, often called the “Prince of Pistoleers,” as well as many of his contemporaries, such as John Wesley Hardin, the James-Younger Gang, the Pinkertons, as well as many U.S. dragoons of the pre-Civil War years.

As Shane says, “A gun is a tool…as good or as bad as the man using it.”

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.