Collier Smith

Collier Smith, of the Redwall Smith Family, was an inventor and individual rights activist who co-founded the Weston Smith Arms Company and whose namesake and personal philosophy contributed to the creation of the Collier Manufacturing Company.
== Philosophy ==
"The core of the problem is that there exists an undertone of the potential for violence that is present in every interaction between Ib. Now the Philosopher Antiquinus Invulgo Metamast wrote extensively about how the nature of hunger, scarcity, and mortality naturally compel Ib to eternally compete against one another, but my conception of the matter is far more simple than that. Suppose you imagine an ordinary child that comes from a rather rough family, just a little girl whose father has one heck of a temper and a nasty studded belt he's known for whipping. Now suppose that the little girl is playing with her dollies and in comes the father and he tells her to pick up her toys and go to bed. Does she do? Sure as heck she does it because she knows that if she doesn't there will be hell to pay. There is no choice at all in the matter, no ifs, ands, or buts, she has an awareness that if she does not pick up her toys and go to bed, she will be violently beaten and forced to anyway. There is just no way an ordinary little girl could possibly put up a fair fight against a grown man.
Now let us take a step back from this scenario and out into the streets of the world that we live in. Imagine an unarmed young Human Woman is walking down an alleyway when suddenly she is confronted by a Male Orc. How does she feel? How does she react? And what choices does she have?
Government, Society, Leos, these all serve as safeguards to the people from the violence that belies the interactions in our daily lives, but as grand as their authority and monopoly over violence is, they cannot possibly enforce order in every alleyway at all times of day, and I am not even sure that we would want to live in a world where they were empowered enough to do so. Instead, the answer must be to restore autonomy and agency to the individual by "leveling the playing field." We live in a diverse world of many different kinds of people who all, for one reason or another, possess unequal capacities in which they can inflict violence upon one another, but through the use of technology, all can be made equal.
I will tell you now that I cannot possibly imagine how that unarmed woman in the alleyway would be feeling, but I do know that a woman armed with Collier Model 6 Revolver would be feeling calm, strong, and in-control, and she would be ready to interact with that Orc as an equal, no fear."