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Shanty Oilish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-03 10:40 PM
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131. "Free white men..." That's also sexist.
"That the free white men of this State shall have a right to keep and to bear arms for their common defence."

And the women are what, irrelevant? incompetent? ineffectual?

"...poverty is unequally distributed to minorities..."

Women are more likely than men to live in poverty. And they're not even a minority.

If gun control is racist and classist, it's also sexist. In a physical contest, the average woman has about 60% the strength of the average man of any race or class---plus a few thousand years of indoctrination against asserting herself.

...
Colonel Colt made women equal.

http://womentoarms.net/wta2.html
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