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To: moyden
"The early genesis of fear in America came from having a slave population... that grew from 700,000 to four million," he states. The Colt 6-shooter, invented in 1836, was cheap and portable, and was just what the white folk needed to "contain slavery" for the final 25 years.

This is entirely delusional. Not only did the history of firearms in the United States not begin in 1836, but its inception was European and had nothing to do with slavery. It did have a good deal to do with defense against marauding aboriginals Indians Native Americans uh, nature-loving peaceful indigenous populations, but I can see where a hardline liberal such as Moore might have a difficult time fitting that into his worldview.

In fact, what this is really all about is precisely that - Moore carefully selecting isolated facts, ignoring the continuity of history, and twisting them into a pathological tirade against those that the last line of the article shows the condescending bastard as having hope for after all. That would be us. And the hope he has is that we might someday be persuaded to accept his delusions as facts and become as smart as him. Right, Mikey, you betcha...

11 posted on 05/17/2002 3:48:18 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
There is also fine historical scholarship by Clayton Cramer and Van Alstyne showing that bans on carrying concealed weapons had their genesis in disarming freed slaves post-Civil War.
14 posted on 05/17/2002 3:59:27 PM PDT by spqrzilla9
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