* Flamethrowers were never used until WW II.
Conventional flame throwers as we think of them, were first incorporated by the Byzantine Empire around the time of it's birth. They were a large role of paper, leather or other type of material that was filled with flammable material. They were very large and used primarily for naval combat. The popular 4th of July firework: "Roman Candle" is named after them.
umm, how is that a rebuttal of any kind? I know flamethrowers were used in WW2, and that the bolded statement is false, but anyone ignorant on the subject of flamethrower use in the modern era would continue to be ignorant, and not any better informed
* The Handgun is strictly an offensive weapon.
If this were true, then police officers would leave their handgun in the glove compartment and in stead shoulder their AR-15 or shotgun when they pull you over.
Huh? how can you disprove somethign is 'strictly an offensive weapon' by bringing up the use, or nonuse, of a more effective offensive weapon.
I agree that the handgun is mostly defensive, but your methodology of explaining this is terribly confusing.
Of all these so-called false rumors, the ONLY one I have heard before was
* It's against the Geneva convention for the military to use Hollow points.
Maybe you have heard a few lone idiots raving about some of these "oh the F-14 can go faster than an SR-71 except it will fall apart!"...."The Bismark was the biggest battleship ever!"
but even people just peripherally aware of these things are going to know that while an F-14 engine's horsepower or thrust rating or whatever you want to say is greater than many other engines, plane weight, areodynamic design, and many other factors are what determine speed.
If you want to go dispelling false rumors, fine, but maybe pick rumors that more than 7 people believe
