• Dolores [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      deputized to exact punitive violence on enemies of the state, not to adjudicate justice between the whites.

      literally, uncut, manifest destiny legal tradition. open-carry guns everywhere western expansion was built on an understanding these guns could be used against minorities and natives, but not on even criminal whites--they needed courts and sherriffs to certify you could shoot a :lmayo: