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To: stand watie
Yet more revisionist history from the Confederate loving, U.S.hating fringe.

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_039300_gunsandgunco.htm

Gun control, in the modern sense, was a fixture of the pre-Civil War Slave Codes designed to prevent a rebellion. These laws restricted all blacks both slave and free. Immediately after the war, laws were passed in the South to prohibit freedmen from owning firearms. But in response, civil rights legislation during Reconstruction made prohibition of black gun ownership impossible, so southern laws were rewritten to restrict pistols to the expensive "Army pistol." The effect was similar to a poll tax—it discriminated against both blacks and poor whites.

554 posted on 04/29/2005 8:25:38 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Gal. 4:16)
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To: fortheDeclaration
you're (AS USUAL) promoting MORE damnyankee LIES!

IF you CAN ,and you cannot, as it is an OUTRIGHT LIE (aren't you SMART enough to KNOW that it's a LIE?? or are you hoping WE are dumb enough to believe you FALSE accusations???), provide an ORIGIONAL SOURCE from an ORIGIONAL DOCUMENT for your contention.

otherwise, ADMIT you are LYING to me/everyone here.

aren't you ASHAMED to be a TOOL of the LEFT????

free dixie,sw

561 posted on 04/29/2005 8:38:00 AM PDT by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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