Georgia Man Arrested for Triple Murder

[slackmaster]

54. While we're on the subject of you misrepresenting my positions, let me straighten you out on this

1. I was born in Kansas and now reside in California. Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1861. I have never lived in any state that was ever part of the Confederacy.

2. No known blood relative of mine fought for the Confederacy. I have ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War on the side of the colonists, and in the Civil War on the side of the Union.

3. I have never engaged in any kind of advocacy for secession, segregation, slavery, or any of the other traits that make the Confederacy a historical pariah in the eyes of most Americans.

4. No known ancestor of mine ever owned a slave. People on my mother's side were early Pennsylvania colonists who were pacifists and strongly opposed to slavery. My father's family was Mennonite. They immigrated to the USA in the 1870s. Mennonites are strict pacifists and have also always opposed slavery.

5. My advocacy for the right to keep and bear arms is libertarian at its roots. I believe strongly that people have a fundamental right to own, say, or do anything they please as long as it hasn't been prohibited through due process of law.

6. The security of a free state as mentioned in the Second Amendment refers to security at all levels, from the individual up to the society as a whole. If I feel that owning firearms is appropriate for my personal security or the security of my household, I have the right to own them. If you feel that owning a gun would not make you more secure, or if for any other reason you wish not to own one, I respect your personal choice. I ask that you respect mine in return.

I find it very odd that you would state to me "You lost the Civil War." Obviously that war ended almost a century before I was born. I have never made any statement that would logically connect me with the Confederacy or even the modern South.

Have you confused me with someone else? Or perhaps you have made a "package deal" fallacious assumption that my advocacy for individual freedom on things like abortion and gun ownership mean that I must somehow be connected with the losing side of the Civil War.

Either way, your remark makes no sense whatsoever. Is it intended as some kind of insult?