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To: American Spirit who wrote (280103)	3/14/2006 3:46:40 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) of 1572953

Did you see this hogwash? Before the Civil War ended, State "Slave Codes" prohibited slaves from owning guns. After President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and after the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was adopted and the Civil War ended in 1865, States persisted in prohibiting blacks, now freemen, from owning guns under laws renamed "Black Codes." They did so on the basis that blacks were not citizens, and thus did not have the same rights, including the right to keep and bear arms protected in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as whites. This view was specifically articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in its infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford to uphold slavery. This guy is implying that the Dred Scott decision from before the civil war somehow trumped the amendments that came after it. You would think that if someone was going to write something that stupid they would at least put the dates in separate paragraphs so their mistakes would not be so obvious. TP

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