But that isn't what happened. Read your history.bizarrenormality wrote:States could easily have prohibited Negros from bearing arms arms the same way they prohibited them from voting, until the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.
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- Thu May 31, 2012 8:19 pm
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- Thu May 31, 2012 8:08 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
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Re: Texas Knife Laws - New Info
Hmmmn, really? Interesting.bizarrenormality wrote:You have to remember the Texas laws against carrying a handgun or large knife were created by carpetbaggers. They were specifically designed to disarm the type of men who fought in the First Texas War of Independence and the Second Texas War of Independence 25-30 years later.
Well, Texas is once again unique because in every other post-Civil War Southern State, weapons control laws were enacted to keep the newly-freed slaves from acquiring arms.
Spend a little time googling "racist roots of gun control".