Why Former Slave States Became the Foundation of American Gun Culture [More]
Because white people are racist, of course!
Who couldn’t see that coming?
And did you know that “It’s only relatively recently that Americans have come to believe that guns keep a person safe and secure”? (Forget “security of a free State”– the old slave owners were obviously talking about a collective right!)
Pencil-necked academic and critic of “meritocracy [and] the Protestant Work Ethic” Nick Buttrick said it, I believe it, and that settles it!
“More than half a million men returned with their guns to one of the world’s most heavily armed and violent societies” – bullshit. Confederate enlisted men had to turn in their rifles and muskets, which were then burned by the victorious Union forces. Confederate arsenals could never meet the demand, and so many men had to take the family rifle to war that Southern-made long rifles are scarce today. Most were lost in service or destroyed at the conclusion of the war, so most men returned unarmed. At the surrender at Appomattox C.H., Grant allowed Confederate officers to keep their pistols and swords. But these were few in number, certainly not “half a million.” This “scholar” is a hack.