Panharmonicum and the 2nd Amendment

This piece, Wellington's Victory (over Napoleon at Vitoria - NOT Waterloo) was written in 1813. It was written for a strange little invention called a "panharmonicum" (pan -all harmonicum - sounds). A giant music box of sorts invented by the guy who invented the metronome.

Two huge standing armies fought it out as they did several times. The British, not exactly our friends after the war of 1812 were still the subject of a lot of ill feelings (how's that for understatement) from our revolution and our country was born during a distrust of standing armies filled with mercenaries and war in general. One reason, if you read the Federalist Papers and the debates, why there is no provision for a standing army in our constitution...we were to rely on state miltias and one reason is clearly that standing armies invite an English army fighting a French army on the battlefields of Spain....a true European tradition.

Anyway this is a curious little piece, just long enough to be split in half for YouTube purposes. When I think of the nut in Tucson, carrying a Glock 9mm, and juxtapose this look at history and the times it reflects, I have to think we have lost our minds and souls to the gun lobby.