The gun manufacturer and "trigger puller" analogy is not close to being equivalent to the African and Virginia slave traders.  Both traders did the exact same thing i.e. sell slaves.  One could hardly say that the Winchester or Remington companies themselves were shooting people as a part of their business operations.

Ed Truslow
Williamsburg 



>From: Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 2008/06/25 Wed AM 07:54:47 CDT
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Richmond and VA slave Traders, plus Africa

>If Neil McDonald's logic is right, we can readily apply it to our world
>right now. 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
>Charlottesville
> 
>
>>Of likely greater importance to others, can someone provide the name of one
>>African man who may share accountabilities for the enslaving of Africans and
>>selling them at various African ports for profit, as described below. . . . 
>Why focus on slave traders and
>>only consider a secondary few in Virginia when others were primarily
>>responsible for the endless supply to the world over centuries?
>>
>
>>Neil McDonald
>
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