What a$$hole invented guns?

Question

Who would make something like that?

Answer 1

Two Chinese guys back in 3rd century were fooling around with a mixture that was later to be called gunpowder. One said to the other: What do we do with it? I don't know--lets put it in a jug, put a cork in it, and place it on the fire. So he put a cork in the jug and placed it over an open fire. After a minute nothing had happened.Then one of the Chinese guys said to the other: Maybe we should add more powder/ Okay---so the other one bent over the jug to pull it out of the fire when suddenly it exploded and the poor guy was killed with a cork sticking out of his head. Their landlady ran in and screamed--What happened here? There's a dead man on my floor! So the guy explained what happened and demonstrated for her exactly what happened, but he was out of cork so he grabbed some scrap metal near by and placed it back into another jar and poured in some more powder. This time the landlady leaned forward just as it exploded and she was corked and nailed to death. Two bodies now upon the floor. The police arrived and arrested the man but had never seen anything like it at all--he began to reenact the crime for the police who decided that this was something important--so they took him to the emperor so he could see it too. The emperor freed the man when he realized the importance the new weapons would have over his enemies. That night the emperor's mistress wanted to know just what it was that he was playing with: A jug, a cork, a round ball, and some powder he said. She claimed out of the bed and helped him with the fire.
Now, you would think in 2000 years people would learn that if you play with fire---you're gonna get corked, nailed, and balled, and...
That's-- how the gun was invented.

Answer 2

Leaving aside the Chinese invention of gun powder or the Western application of packing it into a barrel to propel a ball you might want to consider that a gun is simply a tool, nothing more and nothing less. It isn't either good or evil nor does it have the ability to animate itself and stalk helpless victims in the dead of night and as a tool it is capable of being USED for either constructive or destructive purposes. In that regard it is very much like other tools, a hammer or ax for example. The hammer that can be used to build a home, or the ax to clear a field for planting, can also be turned on another human with devastating result. It has become a well worn cliche to say that "guns don't kill people but that people kill people" even though it is true. You might as well ask what a$$hole invented hammers and axes for all the good it would do you. The problem isn't the tool so much as the person who wields it. Find a way to address that question, the human propensity for violence, and you might be on to something. Otherwise if you manage to rid your world of guns in a few years you will be indeed be asking who was the lunatic who loosed axes on the world and how do we get rid of them.

Answer 3

well, when you actually have to hunt your food EVERY day, and carrying around a sword that requires close proximity to something harmful, and when an arrow isn't that acurate and takes sooo much strength and precision to weild....something like a gun is a BLESSING, and still is, it's just how it's used. Humans will always misuse their inventions, not all of them, just some humans, it's inevitable. And if we didn't have weapons, we'd still kill each other and things with our bare hands. The gun is a wonderful invention that evolved from cannons and muskets, so it is hard to say WHO first invented a gun.

Overall though, gun powder and the following inventions originated in China and the Far East.

The word "gun" is derived from the German word Gundhild = "war sword". The cannon most likely originated in China, and the musket (hand cannon to begin with) was probably invented in the late 14th or 15th century.

See these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_cannons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_cannons

Answer 4

Really opened a can of worms with this question, didn't you? Well, to give you an answer to your question, the flintlock musket was developed in the 17th century. Samuel Colt invented the revolver in 1836. And it goes on from there, rifles, semi automatic machine guns, etc.

Guns were initially invented I believe to use in hunting.

But, it isn't the assholes who invented the guns that are wrong; it's the owner of the guns that tend to be overzealous in what they are protecting (if they aren't using the guns to commit crimes).

Answer 5

Guns were invented before the first European explorers ever set foot in America. So guns have got nothing to do with American's constitutional rights.

The rifle, the revolver and the pistol are European (British?) inventions, even though gunpowder originated in China. Thanks to guns a weaker person can protect himself or herself from another whom God had created physically stronger. Guns are a victory of man over nature.

However, guns are brutally misused in the world today. Gun control among civilians is a more sensitive topic.

Answer 6

John Browning was the designer who invented the Winchester rifle and Thomas Colt invented the revolver.
You can read the history of guns on this website and you may be able to find some resolve to your question..But most of all, it is very informative and educational..

http://inventors.about.com/od/militaryhistoryinventions/a/firearms.htm

Answer 7

The earliest guns were actually cannons, which just made it a lot easier than a giant sling-shot to hurl stuff at the enemy. Quite frankly I believe that getting run through by a sword or a spear is a lot more painful and takes longer to kill than a well placed bullet. No need to worry or fret about bullets tho, eventually they'll be just as obsolete as the sword. Future weapons will use laser beams to burn a hole through your skull, and you won't have to worry about missing your target,, it's already a reality in guided missiles.

Answer 8

I don;t think it was invented for killing people but human beings, you know how they are, just one ingenious thing to the next, you could ask what a$$__le invented nuclear bombs? Each of these inventions is like a coin. Every coin has 2 sides, the bad side of nuclear energy is a bomb, the good side is someday we could possibly develop a missile to move a asteroid hurtling toward earth off it's path.

Answer 9

The Chinese invented gunpowder but it was mainly used for religious festivals. It was the Koreans who weaponized it. The first true gun was the arquebex(not sure on spelling). It was developed in the late middle ages.

Answer 10

Your problem isn't "the a$$hole that invented them". It's all the a$$holes that use them today!

Xan Shui,
Philosophic Philanthropist, Honest Man