[Nailbiter]

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[SamAdams76]

I’m a firm believer in gun control. Aim carefully, control your breathing and gently squeeze the trigger. This will help you control your gun and hit your target more consistently.

[MacDorcha]

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Have you gotten yours yet? Grab ‘em while you can!

[MacDorcha]

Will there be a temporary ping list? I’d like to be notified when the next installment comes out.

[samtheman]

But if you control guns, you control murder.

Look at Rwanda...

...oh. Nevermind.

[ricks_place]

Slavery was abetted by Gun Control. No surprise.

Restrictions On Slaves, Freed Negroes & Roman Catholics

The State of Maryland offers a good example of how "gun control" has been used to keep people in their place. Maryland was first settled by English colonists in 1631. Within a few decades, numerous plantations had been established which required a substantial amount of manpower. Much of the labor was provided by African slaves who, doubtless, would have preferred to be free. A rebellion of armed slaves could have laid waste to the plantation system, jeopardizing the economic viability of the entire colony. This possibility was not lost upon wealthy planters. To help keep slaves "in their place" the colonial assembly (comprised largely of slave owners) passed Maryland's very first gun control law. Chapter XLIV, Section XXXII of the Acts of 1715 provided:

That no negro or other slave within this province shall be permitted to carry any gun, or any other offensive weapon, from off their master's land, without license from their said master; and if any negro or other slave shall presume to do so, he shall be liable to be carried before a justice of the peace, and be whipped, and his gun or other offensive weapon shall be forfeited to him that shall seize the same and carry such negro so offending before a justice of the peace.

[CGVet58]

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[Old Student]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846265/posts

This has been previously posted. I say that so y’all can see the comments there, rather than as condemnation, as the title is somewhat different. IMHO, although this article is rather soft in it’s presentation, what it says cannot be repeated too often. There are some good comments here, as well, perhaps we can provoke more discussion on the subject.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The history of gun control...

[KeyLargo]

Just received from the NRA pre addressed post cards for me to send to my Illinois representatives from me.

They have to be kidding!

My representatives are:

Senator Dick (Turban) Durbin
Senator Barack (Osama) Obama
U.S Representative Bobby (former Chicago Black Panther Minister of Defense)Rush.

I live in Cook (Crook) County, Illinois enough said.

[Hiddigeigei]

How any student of American history could have taken Bellesiles' book seriously is beyond belief.

I just did a search for the worde "rifle" in Tocqueville's Democracy in America. He describes entering a typical American farm.
"We entered the log house ... above the hearth a good rifle, a deer's skin, and plumes of eagles' feathers; on the right hand of the chimney a map of the United States, ... upon a shelf formed of a roughly hewn plank, a few volumes of books - a Bible, the six first books of Milton, and two of Shakespeare's plays..."

I did a similar search in TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. BY WILLIAM PRIEST (1802) and found so many references that I can not quote them all. Two quotes I must include:

"When his land is properly registered, his next care is to provide himself with a horse, a plough, and other implements of agriculture; a rifle, a fowling piece, some ammunition, and a large dog of the blood-hound breed, to hunt deer."

And the following story:

"I have heard a hundred improbable stories relative to what was done with the rifle by famous marksmen in America, such as shooting an apple from a child's head, &c; to which I could not give credit: but, I have no reason to doubt the following feat: as it was actually performed before many hundred inhabitants of this borough, and the adjacent country.--During the late war, in the year 1775, a company of riflemen, formed from the back woodsmen of Virginia, were quartered here for some time: two of them alternately held a board only nine inches square between his knees, while his comrade fired a ball through it from a distance of one hundred paces! The board is still preserved; and I am assured by several who were present, that it was performed without any manner of deception."

[Clint Williams]

And that's what we'll talk about next week, remembering that if we ignore the lessons that history offers us, our children will pay the price with their freedom.

It's too late. The country's toast.

Consider (on topic): once upon a time ex-cons could own guns. Now we take them (guns) away based on accusations.

It was a nice experiment, but it foundered -- on the rock of populism.

[Larry Lucido]

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[labette]

If Clayton Cramer doesn't post on FR, He needs to.