This is a very good book, I learned a lot about parts of our US history that I didn’t hear or read in school.
Book: "Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms"
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Re: Book: "Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms"
This is a very good book, I learned a lot about parts of our US history that I didn’t hear or read in school.
.. tyrants accomplish their purposes ...by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms. - Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840
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Re: Book: "Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms"
A lot of people forget that the law against carrying in Texas is a Jim Criw law dating back to 1873 that was passed for the purpose of disarming blacks.