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Phatscotty wrote:In 1640, Virginia's first recorded legislation barred black people from owning guns.ļ»æ From that point forward, history is replete with examples of gun control laws aimed exclusively at disarming blacks, which made it easier to enslave them and, in the years following slavery, to terrorize them and lynch them without meaningful resistance. The law-abiding black citizen has been and continues to be a victim of those who would deny them the right to keep and bear arms.
jonesthecurl wrote:Isn't that why they didn't get to have guns? Isn't the slavery a bigger problem than the guns? Are you suggesting that it would have made sense to drag people from Africa in dreadful conditions, buy and sell them, and then say "Hey, have a gun if you like."?
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
Neoteny wrote:Man, it's too bad the native Americans didn't have guns.
jonesthecurl wrote:Isn't that why they didn't get to have guns? Isn't the slavery a bigger problem than the guns? Are you suggesting that it would have made sense to drag people from Africa in dreadful conditions, buy and sell them, and then say "Hey, have a gun if you like."?
Neoteny wrote:Man, it's too bad the native Americans didn't have guns.
notyou2 wrote:Is the US really that bad a place that you have to constantly watch your back and arm yourself lest someone jump out and harm you, or is this just paranoid propaganda by the armed to the teeth (plus a small wagon to carry the rest) paranoids?
If I lived in that scarey a place, I'd move to some place safer like Canada.
Phatscotty wrote:notyou2 wrote:Is the US really that bad a place that you have to constantly watch your back and arm yourself lest someone jump out and harm you, or is this just paranoid propaganda by the armed to the teeth (plus a small wagon to carry the rest) paranoids?
If I lived in that scarey a place, I'd move to some place safer like Canada.
I don't get what you mean. Who said USA is this bad a place that one has to constantly watch their back and arm themself lest someone jump out and harm them? What is the propaganda you refer too?
Care to clarify?
notyou2 wrote:Phatscotty wrote:notyou2 wrote:Is the US really that bad a place that you have to constantly watch your back and arm yourself lest someone jump out and harm you, or is this just paranoid propaganda by the armed to the teeth (plus a small wagon to carry the rest) paranoids?
If I lived in that scarey a place, I'd move to some place safer like Canada.
I don't get what you mean. Who said USA is this bad a place that one has to constantly watch their back and arm themself lest someone jump out and harm them? What is the propaganda you refer too?
Care to clarify?
Read again and note the punctuation.
.........except you need to be armed all the time or you will be killed, unless this is just right wing paranoid propaganda. You be the judgePhatscotty wrote:notyou2 wrote:Phatscotty wrote:notyou2 wrote:Is the US really that bad a place that you have to constantly watch your back and arm yourself lest someone jump out and harm you, or is this just paranoid propaganda by the armed to the teeth (plus a small wagon to carry the rest) paranoids?
If I lived in that scarey a place, I'd move to some place safer like Canada.
I don't get what you mean. Who said USA is this bad a place that one has to constantly watch their back and arm themself lest someone jump out and harm them? What is the propaganda you refer too?
Care to clarify?
Read again and note the punctuation.
Okay. Well the USA is a great place actually. Maybe better than Canada even!
notyou2 wrote:.........except you need to be armed all the time or you will be killed, unless this is just right wing paranoid propaganda. You be the judgePhatscotty wrote:notyou2 wrote:Phatscotty wrote:notyou2 wrote:Is the US really that bad a place that you have to constantly watch your back and arm yourself lest someone jump out and harm you, or is this just paranoid propaganda by the armed to the teeth (plus a small wagon to carry the rest) paranoids?
If I lived in that scarey a place, I'd move to some place safer like Canada.
I don't get what you mean. Who said USA is this bad a place that one has to constantly watch their back and arm themself lest someone jump out and harm them? What is the propaganda you refer too?
Care to clarify?
Read again and note the punctuation.
Okay. Well the USA is a great place actually. Maybe better than Canada even!
Phatscotty wrote:notyou2 wrote:.........except you need to be armed all the time or you will be killed, unless this is just right wing paranoid propaganda. You be the judgePhatscotty wrote:notyou2 wrote:Phatscotty wrote:notyou2 wrote:Is the US really that bad a place that you have to constantly watch your back and arm yourself lest someone jump out and harm you, or is this just paranoid propaganda by the armed to the teeth (plus a small wagon to carry the rest) paranoids?
If I lived in that scarey a place, I'd move to some place safer like Canada.
I don't get what you mean. Who said USA is this bad a place that one has to constantly watch their back and arm themself lest someone jump out and harm them? What is the propaganda you refer too?
Care to clarify?
Read again and note the punctuation.
Okay. Well the USA is a great place actually. Maybe better than Canada even!
You are better able to protect yourself and your family if you are armed, yes. That is not propaganda or paranoia though, it's common sense.
Phatscotty wrote:Lefties have always joked about slavery.
The more things change, the more they stay the same it seems.
Iliad wrote:Phatscotty wrote:Lefties have always joked about slavery.
The more things change, the more they stay the same it seems.
Oh don't worry, we're not making fun of slavery, we're making fun of you.
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