Posted on 11/26/2017 1:35:11 PM PST by Simon Green
“Amendments gave us nothing.”
Yep.
Can’t fix stupid. Ignorance can be fixed but not stupid.
“Slaves were not allowed guns and owners had them, every last one.”
This canard is floated around all the time. Can anyone cite laws or something that forbade negro slaves from owning firearms? I don’t think it is true. Maybe in later times when the precursors of what we call modern day democrats ran things. But then they don’t want any of us to own firearms.
2nd Amendment bump for later....
Sorry, I just assumed. I know the patrollers were out with guns to look for the runaways. I assumed the plantation owners didn’t allow the slaves to gather arms. For obvious reasons.
I don’t know..I was just asking. I think a lot of later laws that came along .were aimed at keeping blacks disarmed. Sort of like New Yorks Sullivan law.
I have a small fortune invested in reloading equipment actually. I was shooting pennies with my AR10 at 100 yards a while back. Unfortunately, my entire firearm collection was lost in a freak boating accident a while back.
Slave owners didn’t kill their slaves because they used them as collateral for their loans. Slaves were worth a lot of money.
Once the slaves were freed, the southerners gunned them down by the 10’s of thousands during “Redemption.” The only blacks that were reasonably safe were those who had been in the Union armies who had guns and training.
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