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Gun Control Reform Activism

GreenStormCloud

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28. Pancho Villa was a revolutionary, leading a small army of revolutionist.

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #27)

Mon Jun 24, 2013, 01:09 PM

Jun 2013

Pancho Villa was a nome de guerre. His real name was José Doroteo Arango Arámbula. He was a general in a Mexican Revolutionary Army. In 1916 he, with the troops under him, attacked Columbus, NM, killing 18 Americans and losing 80 of his own men. (The U.S. military garrison had machine-guns and the civilians were well armed and shot back.) I don't think he cared about any U.S. laws.

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Just curious. What do RKBA gun enthusiasts say about Wyatt Earp and his gun ban in tombstone? [View all] CTyankee Jun 2013 OP

Now you know what that little dustup Jackpine Radical Jun 2013 #1

That's right! KansDem Jun 2013 #2

what would happen if someone went over to the Gungeon and posted two words: Wyatt Earp? CTyankee Jun 2013 #5

cross post this and find out. nt gejohnston Jun 2013 #10

this post got me a lot of information. Very interesting. I never knew all that stuff about CTyankee Jun 2013 #32

According to the NRA billh58 Jun 2013 #3

Oh boy. But I can understand it because I finally realized that their grasp on reality is very CTyankee Jun 2013 #4

Historians, not the NRA. gejohnston Jun 2013 #11

I believe the gun ban was selectively enforced. ... spin Jun 2013 #6

so there it is... CTyankee Jun 2013 #7

Wat a minute! your link...what did I miss when I clicked on it? CTyankee Jun 2013 #8

concealed carry privileges in dodge jimmy the one Jun 2013 #12

The simple reality is that probably neither the Earps or the Cow-Boys ... spin Jun 2013 #15

Earp didn't ban anything gejohnston Jun 2013 #9

I see. It was a gun ban on carrying into the town. OK. CTyankee Jun 2013 #13

He didn't, it was the city council gejohnston Jun 2013 #14

actually jimmy the one Jun 2013 #16

it was still the city council, not Earp gejohnston Jun 2013 #17

state prohibitions on carrying concealed jimmy the one Jun 2013 #18

Good for them. gejohnston Jun 2013 #19

my mother was born in 1911 in El Paso and used to tell me, with great disgust, how CTyankee Jun 2013 #20

It didn't take the NRA apologists billh58 Jun 2013 #21

well, I didn't know that much about Wyatt Earp before but they sure do. It's amazing how CTyankee Jun 2013 #23

Would a U.S. gun ban have disarmed Pancho Villa? N/T GreenStormCloud Jun 2013 #26

Oh, I think it was just a factof life in El Paso of 1911. The wild, wild West, you know. CTyankee Jun 2013 #27

Pancho Villa was a revolutionary, leading a small army of revolutionist. GreenStormCloud Jun 2013 #28

Yes, I knew who he was. I guess I have to take my mother at her word that it actually CTyankee Jun 2013 #29

Just my opinions discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2013 #22

It is interesting, from a historian's point of view. However, we have evolved as a matter of CTyankee Jun 2013 #24

I'm not exactly sure... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2013 #25

Sorry. I was just saying that "that was then, this is now" which is what I meant by CTyankee Jun 2013 #30

Progress is the only hope... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2013 #31