2aguy
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An interesting nugget from the Supreme Court ruling striking down New Yorks carry ban....yes...it was a carry ban......
Arming teachers has a long history in this country....as freed blacks carried pistols to their schools to keep democrats from harming their students....
Page 53 of the decision.......
For example, the Bureau reported that a teacher from a Freedmen’s school in Maryland had written to say that, because of attacks on the school, “oth the mayor and sheriff have warned the colored people to go armed to school, (which they do,)” and that the “[t]he super- intendent of schools came down and brought [the teacher] a revolver” for his protection.
Armed citizens prevent political thugs from controlling political freedom...
“No Union man or negro who attempts to take any active part in politics, or the improvement of his race, is safe a single day; and nearly all sleep upon their arms at night, and carry concealed weapons during the day.” H. R. Exec. Doc. No. 329, 40th Cong., 2d Sess., at 40.
Arming teachers has a long history in this country....as freed blacks carried pistols to their schools to keep democrats from harming their students....
Page 53 of the decision.......
For example, the Bureau reported that a teacher from a Freedmen’s school in Maryland had written to say that, because of attacks on the school, “oth the mayor and sheriff have warned the colored people to go armed to school, (which they do,)” and that the “[t]he super- intendent of schools came down and brought [the teacher] a revolver” for his protection.
Armed citizens prevent political thugs from controlling political freedom...
“No Union man or negro who attempts to take any active part in politics, or the improvement of his race, is safe a single day; and nearly all sleep upon their arms at night, and carry concealed weapons during the day.” H. R. Exec. Doc. No. 329, 40th Cong., 2d Sess., at 40.