[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Roger Stokes]

On 13/12/2015 08:15, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I took it to mean that (unspecified)Founding Fathers personally said or
>> believed that it was permissible to own slaves. Not that any wording in the
>> Constitution implies  or allows this.
>>
>> Who were the "Founding Fathers" anyway? Were any of them pro slavery?
> ​Yes, of course. There is some kind of story that Jefferson wanted to have
> slavery eliminated, but folks in the South said they would not sign off on
> the various documents unless slavery was part of the package.  I have read
> this in various places, but the bottom line is that slavery was legal in the USA for quite some time.

At the time of the time of the War of Independence it was also legal in 
the colonial power.  The UK did not abolish the trade in slaves until 
1808 and the ownership of slaves until 1833.

Roger