Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much
The 95 guys remaining after the first volley will beat the musketeers to a pulp while they're trying to reload.
Read
On Killing by Col. Dave Grossman. It will enlighten you. It follows warfare and personal and impersonal killing from early musket days to today. In WWII only 15-20% of soldiers actually fired their weapons at the enemy. After the war the military looked at these stats and revised their training. Rate was up to 55-60% in Korea. Further revisions were made. That figure was raised to 95% in Vietnam.
The stats don't lie - even trained soldiers in WWII had only, at best, a 20% engagement rate. At that was TRAINED. Want to bet what percentage will "fight back" on a plane? And how long will it take them to do so.
No thanks, I'll stick to the trained (with all the new methodologies) FAMs, FFDOs and LEOs.