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February 17, 2015

Overnight Open Thread (2-17-2015)

Because I'm not feeling well and because of a confluence of unfortunate events tonight's ONT will be a runt one.

Dennis Prager on the 9th Commandment: Do Not Bear False Witness

The Racist History of CCW Restrictions

"The original Act of 1893 [requiring persons carrying or having in manual possession a concealed pistol to obtain a license from the state of Florida] was passed when there was a great influx of negro laborers in this State drawn here for the purpose of working in turpentine and lumber camps. The same condition existed when the Act was amended in 1901 and the Act was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers and to thereby reduce the unlawful homicides that were prevalent in turpentine and saw-mill camps and to give the white citizens in sparsely settled areas a better feeling of security. The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied." - Watson v. Stone, 4 So. 2d 700, 703 (Fla. 1941) (Buford, J., concurring), cited in Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond, "'Never Intended to be Applied to the White Population': Firearms Regulation and Racial Disparity-the Redeemed South's Legacy to National Jurisprudence?", 70 Chi-Kent L. Rev 1307, 1307 (1995).


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