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baldeagle wrote:What struck more than anything when reading this was that Texas was born out of a desire to resist Santa Anna's confiscation of their guns. That was in 1836. Just 35 years later, in 1871, Texans were disarmed by their own legislature. It's taken Texans 145 years to partially restore those rights. It's definitely a cautionary tale. Rights forfeited will not be restored quickly. Better to fight for them before they are stolen than to hope you can win legislatively a few years after they are taken away.

The thing that surprises me is that the haltex document actually discusses how the 1869 elections were "characterized by fraud and force..." especially the fact that legislators who opposed the governor were arrested so that radicals could pass legislation. Talk about dirty tricks, now days we arrest legislators to make them stay in order so that legislation can be passed. When "open carry activists" talk about treason and armed revolution because they are oppressed they have no clue how bad it was in 1869 and the years following, they would have been oppressed right into jail or into the grave while no one would have been able to do anything about it.