OK, this thread is based on the NRA's proposition that, during Reconstruction, the freed blacks would've been better able to secure their new-won freedom had they been better-armed against their KKK & other white supremacist enemies- any thoughts ?
I find this post darkly amusing, because you clearly have absolutely no idea about what the NRA was like during the post-Civil War period while you're taking random political potshots at them. I'm going to assume by your odd insistence that the NRA supported the Confederacy that you're unaware of the fact that the NRA was founded by Union veterans, and did make efforts to arm freedmen.Good one. Yeah sure, and what'd have happened to those poor buggers who shot a white man? Apart from that, y'all really think poor freedmen'd have the money to get decent guns? Them NRA fellows should've used the argument, that after the War of Northern Aggression, the downtrodden Southerners could've used more guns to deal with carpetbaggers and uppity n*****s.
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...your odd insistence that the NRA supported the Confederacy that you're unaware of the fact that the NRA was founded by Union veterans, and did make efforts to arm freedmen.