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According to the territory’s first newspaper editor Thomas Dimsdale, “shooting, dueling, and outrage were daily occurrences” in Virginia City and Bannack. Granville Stuart, as close to a founding father as the territory produced, remarked that in 1860s Virginia City it “became the custom to go armed all the time.” Yet the territory’s first legislature passed a law banning “the carrying of concealed deadly weapons” anywhere within the limits of any town in the territory. Such laws were not unique to Montana. Most states banned concealed weapons in the nineteenth century, considering them the weapons of assassins and thieves, not appropriate for an honest man. |
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PHORTO
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Noitdoesn't. Quitlyin'.
Heh-heh.
I would point out that until the ratification of the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights was only binding on the United States government.
That was over 100 years ago. Times have changed. |
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