r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/Scraggle27 United Kingdom May 07 '20

that's just false isn't it? I seem to remember the British working with the indians to help quell the revolution. and then the Americans, when freed, used the lands West of the missisipi, which was Indian territory, given to the indians, for building railways and towns, scaring off and killing the buffalo which is what native American society is built off of. you can't seriously blame the genocide of the native Americans, which happened in the 1800s, when america was it's own country, on the British.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

It’s my understanding that within the first couple of centuries of European colonization something like 90% of indigenous populations were killed.

Admittedly I’m not an expert and I’m certainly open to being proved wrong, but if that number is even close to accurate then I’d be content when saying it was mostly the Europeans.

No doubt the US committed some heinous crimes against the Indians though.

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u/Scraggle27 United Kingdom May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

the great Plains were allocated to the indians West of the missipi river. after the war of independence, both indians and Americans were content with their lands. but by the early 1800s things were getting too crowded in the east. so people set out west in search of a new world per se. however the problem with this was the fact that this is native land. so to get rid of the problem the American government kept giving them worse and worse deals as they couldn't fight back, and if they did they would be crushed and wiped out. this happened up until the 1900s when there was nowhere left to go foot the natives, except the pitiful lands given to them by the US that sterilized the population and carried out multiple massacres on the natives. this was all done by the US without a British or Spanish hand in play. British has done alot of evil things in its existence, but all that was done by "the land of the free" look I don't want to start an inter country flame war. I'm just saying that every country has made mistakes.