re: #95 SanFranciscoZionist

Yeah, that’s part of it, but I think the real core comes out of Germanic/Scandinavian tribal law, and the early predecessors to English common law. That’s where England really diverges from places where Roman legal styles took deeper root.

I think it from slave codes. Slaves were not allowed to carry arms or defend their bodies in any way. One of the hallmarks of a “free” man was that he would “carry arms” (usually a sword).

During Reconstruction the white supremecists considered just about anything useful as a weapon — we don’t have to look much further than our own history to see the illogic.