The even-shorter version of my post from this weekend:
Using polls as leverage to support further gun control just means you think the South should have been permitted to keep their slaves.
After all, most Southerners believed that the slave-holders should have been able to keep their property, and most Northerners did not care (and quietly wanted those darkies to stay down South, so they would not have to deal with them), so if “public opinion” is any metric of the “rightness” of an action, I guess we should go back and undo that whole 13th Amendment thing, eh?
Dude, that was BRILLIANT.
Very well put, especially considering gun control’s racist roots in this country.
@ the pistolero:I tried to make it as short and succinct as I could… Probably could trim it a bit more, but that gets the point across
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@ Pyrotek85: And that is the other side of the coin – the basis of “gun control” is nothing more complicated than ex-slave owners wanting to make damned sure their ex-property did not arm up and come back after them, and now, centuries later, we are still trying to unravel the disastrous mess they created.
But you try to tell that to your average anti-rights cultist, and they fly off the handle. I wonder why?
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