The States Rights crowd likes to ignore how municipal, county, and state governments are just microcosms of federal abuse closer to home with fewer and fewer acknowledgements of individual rights.
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The States Rights crowd likes to ignore how municipal, county, and state governments are just microcosms of federal abuse closer to home with fewer and fewer acknowledgements of individual rights.
I like to tell people that 'states rights' made me an anarchist. I grew up in the South, well steeped in the Lost Cause mythos but the more I thought about it the more it seemed if you followed their logic to its conclusion you end up at individual rights/anarchism. Which didn't fit at all with what they were really after.
Kentucky's first gun law, from shortly after it became a state in 1792, was one prohibiting the concealed carrying of pistols.