On 2021-02-27 11:15 a.m., Graham wrote:
> On 2021-02-27 6:24 a.m., Gary wrote:
>> On 2/26/2021 9:20 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> So.... you are willing to fight to protect your rights but the only
>>> right you really care about it the right to bear arms.Â*Â* That is a lot
>>> like the argument about how the civil war was not about keeping slavery,
>>> it was about protecting rights, but the only state rights they cared
>>> about was their right to have slavery.
>>
>> Not true. Go take a history class.
>> Slavery was not the issue that started the Civil War.
>> It was unfair economic policies between the Northern states and the
>> Southern states.
>>
> And the economy in the South was based on what?

There were upset about industry. They objected to the north
industrializing while they wanted to raise cotton and other crops that
were more labour intensive.... and relied on slave labour.

Things started heating up as the country expanded and there was a
problem with the new states being slave states or free states.

As time goes by the apologists and revisionists want to downplay the
role that the slavery debate played in the conflict. They keep coming up
with all these other reasons, but it generally bounces back to them
northerners not wanting them to be able to keep slaves.

It is interesting to see how some countries can go to war or wage a
civil war and how their excuses change with time. Look back 20 years
to the time GWB invaded Iraq to disarm him of his vast arsenal of WMDs
and eventually got rid of Saddam and his regime. Later on, after facing
the embarassment of going to war to get rid of WMDs that never existed,
the aim was said to have been regime change.