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To: Envisioning

You have a lot of supporters in Texas.

Our experience with Revolution was just over 175 years ago. Too short a time to have fully forgot what it was about.


23 posted on 02/10/2014 12:41:48 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Texas Fossil
You have a lot of supporters in Texas.

I am in Texas! LOL!

27 posted on 02/10/2014 12:47:42 PM PST by Envisioning (It's the Jihad, stupid......)
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To: Texas Fossil; All

In ante-bellum Texas, even slaves had the right to keep and bear arms.

Antebellum Texas was remarkably unlike most other Southern states, but resembled the Northeastern states, in its lack of infringement of the right to keep and bear arms.[78] No one in Texas, regardless of race, was denied the right to possess or carry arms in any manner. At a time when slaves in most states were legally disarmed, there was no such law in Texas, and whites, Mexicans, and blacks could wear concealed arms.

The Texas code as of 1859 shows that only the misuse of weapons was punishable. Apparently the legislature recognized that it had no power to regulate even concealed weapons since the constitutional convention of 1845 defeated proposals to authorize such a (p.646)power. Duelling was prohibited.[79] The slave code contains no arms regulations, but the homicide provisions provided that it was permissible to kill a slave only “[w]hen a slave uses weapons calculated to produce death, in any case other than those in which he may lawfully resist with arms.”[80]

http://www.guncite.com/journals/haltex.html


51 posted on 02/10/2014 4:29:04 PM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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