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Found at the Libertarian Christians web site:

http://libertarianchristians.com/2009/02/13/40-reasons-to-ban-guns/

This is an excerpt from the Supreme Court Dred Scott decision, that declared blacks cannot be real people because then they’d be able to bear arms and defend themselves, and then slaves of the same color then would see them with them, and this would encourage “discontent” among the slaves and might result in insubordination among them. This would be a danger to the “state”, said the Court.

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