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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
24. Sad to see this nonsense still getting traction at DU
Sat May 2, 2015, 04:06 AM
May 2015
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=153756

"The Dred Scott decision was passed, in part, to prevent slaves from owning guns."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/117273773

And if that wasn't enough for you, allow me to quote Chief Justice Roger Taney
in the Dred Scott decision:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford#cite_note-22

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/llst:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28llst022div3%29%29

More especially, it cannot be believed that the large slaveholding States regarded them as included in the word citizens, or would have consented to a Constitution which might compel them to receive them in that character from another State. For if they were so received, and entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, it would exempt them from the operation of the special laws and from the police regulations which they considered to be necessary for their own satiety. It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all of this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, and inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State.


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2nd amendment only applies to white people, according to many NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #1
The original purpose of gun control was to disarm minorities. NutmegYankee May 2015 #10
^This. n/t PowerToThePeople May 2015 #11
Exactly. What was the original purpose of the Second Amendment? backscatter712 May 2015 #16
Sad to see this nonsense still getting traction at DU friendly_iconoclast May 2015 #24
Fortunately, many of us here at DU are of the opposite opinion-see post #23 friendly_iconoclast May 2015 #25
Humm....odd...you know a knife isn't a firearm right? ileus May 2015 #2
It's a weapon isn't it? n/t backscatter712 May 2015 #4
Did it have an evil pistol grip or mean ole flash hider? ileus May 2015 #6
It might have been serrated... backscatter712 May 2015 #7
I still carry a 1982 mini trapper...I feel so old. ileus May 2015 #9
1982? My parents hadn't even met yet. Nuclear Unicorn May 2015 #34
In the words of Wayne LaPierre: arcane1 May 2015 #8
Freedom, jesus these people are stupid NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #13
Do you take the position that Freddy shouldn't have had the knife? beevul May 2015 #20
A few weeks ago you rushed to judgment and assumed a suicide was a lynching. At the time you Nuclear Unicorn May 2015 #31
LULZ..nt Jesus Malverde May 2015 #22
The gun crowd won't like that truth. Hoyt May 2015 #3
Freddie is black Cali_Democrat May 2015 #5
New Legal Term--The Bundy Exception kairos12 May 2015 #15
The ammosexuals only get worked up hifiguy May 2015 #12
Au contraire, ammophobes defended a white guy who attacked a black man carrying legally friendly_iconoclast May 2015 #23
Do you get the feeling that this thread is more about trying to delegitimize pro-RKBA debate by Nuclear Unicorn May 2015 #30
Well, I didn't see any mention of the Clarence Daniels case on ACLU.org Shamash May 2015 #33
Of course. Certain posters disappeared after inconvenient links were supplied friendly_iconoclast May 2015 #40
I have a gun. But I don't use them on people. raven mad May 2015 #14
While your OP has very good points which I agree with your use of the biggoted term 'paddy wagon' kelly1mm May 2015 #17
In my defense, I'm part Irish. n/t backscatter712 May 2015 #19
I don't think even the Irish are offended by that treestar May 2015 #37
Where is the second amendment? Whiskey Jim May 2015 #18
What does the 2nd amendment have to do with this case? former9thward May 2015 #21
posts about guns are PROHIBITED in GD. I want to see this hid ellenrr May 2015 #26
I think they got stuck at the Bundy ranch - n/t lapfog_1 May 2015 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author Inkfreak May 2015 #28
Apart from cynical race baiting, does the OP have a point? Nuclear Unicorn May 2015 #29
Google can do a lot, but it cannot get Backscatter's foot out of his mouth Shamash May 2015 #32
Uh oh. You just outted yourself as someone who would cite the NRA. Now you can be dismissed at Nuclear Unicorn May 2015 #35
In other news Shamash May 2015 #36
For the controllers it isn't about facts, it's about control. Nuclear Unicorn May 2015 #38
Oh, wait silly me Shamash May 2015 #39
Wayne LaPierre is involved with the National RIFLE Association. Dr. Strange May 2015 #41
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