In Henry's attempt to shift focus away from Africans' responsibility for 
maiming, killing, capturing and enslaving their own people for sale to the 
world, his analogy and logic fall short -- and he doesn't offer help with 
names that was my pursuit.  Weapons of all sorts that were useful for 
hunting, fishing and cleaning game were also substitutes for maiming and 
killing people since time's beginning, by those who would find any means for 
that result, initially their bare hands, blunt objects, sharp rocks or 
sticks, then malleable metals, (all of these still used) etc. etc.  I simply 
wish to see one African slave-trader's name emblazoned on the shore of the 
Potomac for all people to remember the representative great evil.  It is 
'not' my intent to belittle subsequent evils within countries where slaves 
were taken, the vastly greater numbers being to other than British colonial 
America and its subsequent United States where slavery finally was ended 
with great loss of military lives.

......and slavery still continues 'today' in some parts of the world, where 
are our concerns expressed toward this additional matter?

Neil McDonald

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Wiencek" <[log in to unmask]>

....Instead of focusing our judicial fury on murderers, the
"secondary few" who pull the trigger, we should hunt down the gun
manufacturers, those who are "primarily responsible for the endless supply"
of guns in our country and "share accountabilities" for gun violence. I
think that's where we end up with this line of reasoning.

Henry Wiencek

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