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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Second Amendment advocates in the Freddie Grey case? [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)24. Sad to see this nonsense still getting traction at DU
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
"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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Where's the Second Amendment advocates in the Freddie Grey case? [View all]
backscatter712
May 2015
OP
Fortunately, many of us here at DU are of the opposite opinion-see post #23
friendly_iconoclast
May 2015
#25
A few weeks ago you rushed to judgment and assumed a suicide was a lynching. At the time you
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2015
#31
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
Of course. Certain posters disappeared after inconvenient links were supplied
friendly_iconoclast
May 2015
#40
While your OP has very good points which I agree with your use of the biggoted term 'paddy wagon'
kelly1mm
May 2015
#17
Uh oh. You just outted yourself as someone who would cite the NRA. Now you can be dismissed at
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2015
#35