This article isn't rewriting history rather it is ignoring it- in order to deflect the evil that gun-toters brought to this continent. This seems true when the article sites this: It is untrue that white European settlers were always at war with Indians, as popular folklore contends. After all, Indians assisted the Pilgrims and celebrated the first Thanksgiving with them;

Really? How many tribes sat down and ate squash with these puritans?

And what about France, Italy Holland, Spain; several European nations were already here. Did they partake in this feast? How does this writer pretend that ALL INDIANS celebrated with Pilgrim taking puritans? That is geographically impossible. Cherokee & Pochanatans is all he named-he's short by about a hundred or so tribes.

The writer then continues cleaning up history with this: As Jennifer Roback has written, “Europeans generally acknowledged that the Indians retained possessory rights to their lands. By the twentieth century, some $800 million had been paid for Indian lands.


When did this begin? early or late 1800s? and what was the natives supposed to do with paper printed with words they had no fucking clue of?

They weren't allowed on the premise(s) of these lands so called paid for. And paper currency is meant as a debt for trade of resources- well shit: resources are apart of the land. So why would they need paper to access that which was stolen/bought for?

And why does the diaries of pilgrims contradict this? The narration of the Mayflower rejects this all day long. By 1640 the Narragansett tribe to name one- were betrayed by the children of the 1st generation of the Mayflower- The writer(s) of this seems oblivious to King Phillip's war- Natives were long at odds with Puritans before the 1860...this dude has to be on some meth or something to even pretend... Natives were long at odds with puritans and those who came afterward 1700's and on.

Why does the founder of Rhode Island aka Roger Williams the 1st baptist contradict this? He wrote the blood tenant in which he CLEARLY stated he was to be kicked out of the colonies for bad mouthing Massachusetts for stealing land from the natives. Not according to this link- shit; they paid for land.

The writer(s) would have me believe Indians were paid well for their land- yet they still did (something) to create the (wild) for the western territory. Based on Lincoln & a reference to a link in this article called him (NOT SO HONEST) Abe.

a quote from it: We are not going to let a few thieving, ragged Indians check and stop the progress [of the railroads],” Sherman wrote to Ulysses S. Grant in 1867 (qtd. in Fellman 1995, 264

Well if there are just a few..and they are ragged- how do they contribute to the west becoming (WILD)?

W*rites Benson, “[t]here were few instances of violence on the wagon trains even when food became extremely scarce and starvation threatened.

In other words: never have Europeans manifested primal behavior- even in the worst of times- they were civil.

The contractual system of law effectively generated cooperation rather than conflict, and effectively quelled through nonviolent means” (1998, 105).



So there it is. The West wasn't wild, so guns weren't a problem. And when it became wild- blame the Indians. As today blame the gangs which are primarily African-American.

In reality- The west was wild, the 1920's were roaring with gangs, mafia driven and today guns are still able to find the hands of evildoers as in the past. EVIL--- To whom belong no specific people, be they black, white,, red male or female exists in all eras. And when guns are plenty- they get their fair share.

Since we want to be a nation of gun-toters- the least we can do: is ensure those who get them legally- should have the right to carry them--and as many. But if they choose to sell them- how the heck do they not become responsible for what becomes them? We should learn from the Wild West, the Roaring 20's that too many guns produced will fall into the hands of sick & evil.

Have the right to bare arms- but have the godliness to ensure none of our brethren or neighbors sell them to the unfaithful, the crazy, the sick, the evil just for a profit.