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To: American Spirit who wrote (279171)	3/8/2006 8:27:16 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575946

"Don't forget slaves were bred to be big and powerful by their owners. " Nonsense. Slaves weren't kept for enough generations to have a significant effect. At best, they might have managed to increase the natural variation some. You need more than a couple of dozen generations(longer than slaves were kept), to have much of an impact.

To: American Spirit who wrote (279171)	3/8/2006 8:52:56 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575946

AS, Don't forget slaves were bred to be big and powerful by their owners. ROFL, that's the kind of talk that got Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder canned ... Tenchusatsu

To: American Spirit who wrote (279171)	3/9/2006 8:12:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575946

Combjelly adequately handled the response to the "slaves were bred to be strong statement". I don't see how I can improve on it, so I'll just say I agree with him. As for "the roots of the NRA mentality" being the need for slave owners to be armed. There wasn't a need for anything like the NRA for slave owners to be armed. Gun control was pretty rate back then. Slaves wouldn't be allowed to have guns, and in general where restricted and kept down by a number of laws. After the slaves where freed a lot of racists where concerned that black people could now get guns, which is one of the main reason behind some of the earlier gun control laws. I'm not asserting that support for gun control has any significant racist component now, but historically it did. Now neither support for gun control or opposition to it has a heavy racial/racist component. Tim