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To: Le Chien Rouge

Right after Reconstruction, and again during the KKK period, many southern rural blacks kept their homes and families safe by keeping a shotgun close by.

More on the left need to know this simple historical fact.


12 posted on 09/18/2010 5:46:42 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

“More on the left need to know this simple historical fact.”

They have chosen to ignore that fact. The primary driver for early gun control efforts was to keep that rural black man from having a shotgun when they came to lynch him.


16 posted on 09/18/2010 5:56:35 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Leaning Right

many southern rural blacks kept their homes and families safe by keeping a shotgun close by.

the subject of Clarence Thomas’ concurrence in the DC vs Heller ruling


17 posted on 09/18/2010 5:59:42 AM PDT by Paisan
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