On Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 11:37:13 AM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> 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. 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.
> Well known by most who paid attention even in High School.

That's what you was taught in high school: The War for States' Rights. The kids up North got a decidedly different history lesson.