Apathetic Australians?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by tw

Meanwhile, and in contradiction of Hollywood fiction, large numbers of families trekked across the American frontier without guns. A typical family might have had one gun.

All the people who lived here and decided to move west had guns, at least one per family and usually one for each boy over ten years old. Hunting was an important part of their food supply. The few that were unarmed would be the ones fresh off the boat headed to the midwest, and that was not exactly the frontier, at that point.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Up till a couple of hundred years ago (or less) tribes were being captured by whites and sold as slaves still.

The white slavers didn't capture tribes, they bought slaves from the Black and Arab slave traders that had operated in Africa for a thousand years. Slavery is not dead in Africa even today... or the rest of the world.


I think the "sunglasses dude" is referring to post 16, but no idea what it has to do with the price of beans.