Care to name a single one of these self-loading or fully automatic weapons that existed in the 1700s for the historically ignorant?:dubious: Using the term loosely, the first fully automatic weapon was the Gatling gun introduced in 1862. Since it was hand-cranked it wasn’t actually an automatic weapon; that would have to wait until the Maxim gun of 1884. The first (unsuccessful) semi-automatic rifle was the Mannlicher Model 1885 self-loading rifle of 1885. Lever-action (which is not semi-automatic - the next round has to be chambered via the use of the lever-action as opposed to being self-loading) repeating rifles weren’t in use until 1860 and the first bolt-action magazine fed rifles (again, not semi-automatic as the next round has to be chambered via the bolt-action rather than being self-loading) in widespread use was the Mauser Model 1871. Firearms in the 1700s were muzzle-loading for fucks sake, the first successful breach-loading rifle was the Dreyse needle-gun of 1841.
Perhaps he was thinking of the repeating crossbow, which had been around for centuries. Since those had to be hand-cocked in between shots, they don’t quite qualify as semiautomatic. They’d be considered repeating though, just like a lever-action carbine.
I guess one disingenuity deserves another.
Your claims appear to be incoherent, perhaps unsound…but I think I get the gist of it. There’s nothing new about any of this. Catholics were once considered a menace as well.
By allowing immigration you allow the customs and thinking of other countries to filter into every day use, it is not about becoming un-American it is about America evolving
Declaring people to be unpersons for holding the wrong opinion is an authoritarian tactic. You’re essentially calling people heathens for blaspheming the American holy writ.
Nitpick: An early Colt revolver rifle was used in the Seminole Wars in 1838 or 1839 and a later model was adopted by the army (in limited numbers with not a lot of success) in 1857. They were not semi-automatic, needing to be cocked between rounds, but they were repeating.
Denouncing the concept of free expression is unAmerican.
Looking at someone and declaring “What you just said is a virtual dump-truck of bullshit, indicative of a thought-process shorted out by all the knitting needles I’m sure you’ve been shoving up your nose since adolescence”… why, that’s apple pie!
A big part of being “American” is the ability to constantly argue with everyone else about the minutiae of what being “American” means.
I think part of the problem is the modern media (including message boards like this one). We cycle through events so much faster than we used to. We learn about events as they’re occurring with ongoing commentary. I think this creates a heightened sense of crisis in our political views. We see events happening NOW and we feel we need an immediate solution.
It was considered a huge rush when the Thirteenth Amendment was enacted within two years of its initial proposal. But nowadays the idea of waiting two years to accomplish something seems like an eternity.
One of the great things about being American is that we can have differing views like those expressed in the OP. We can debate them, we can make fun of those with opposing views, we can attempt to pass laws regarding those views and then those laws can be judged against the current Constitution, and they can be struck down if they are deemed to not stand in light of the Constitution. And if enough people still feel strongly about a particular position then the Constitution can be amended.
And we can do all of these things free from physical persecution or being sent away to re-education camps.
Let’s not forget the late, great Huey P. (the Kingfish) Long of Louisiana during the rise of Hitler – “America will not be conquered by a foreign army but will be destroyed by an army of americans waving flags under the name of Americanism.”
He thought he was being funny?
I’d disagree, but that would wreck my un-American street cred, carefully nurtured for 48 years. 
Its common practice for people in power (or who want to be in power) to provoke fear and division. It’s even easier to manipulate people when they live in dire or desperate conditions (poverty, unemployment, under sanctions, during wartime, etc). The cognitive mind craves a cause for said misery, or someone to blame. This is easily manipulated into blaming a scapegoat - whether they be an economic class, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual persuasion.