Kansans are an interesting people, who were willing to fight for their beliefs. The War Between the States started in Kansas long before April 12, 1861.
Beecher Bible and Rifle Church in Wabaunsee. Established in June 1857 by Free State sympathizers. The "Connecticut-Kansas Colony" arrived with Sharps rifles and 25 Bibles provided by the congregation of Henry Ward Beecher.
As a % of the population, no State contributed more able bodied men to the Union cause than Kansas; almost 50%.
The Lincoln Co. Courthouse
BUT concealed carry did not pass until 2006.William Allen White, 'The Sage of Emporia'
"Kansans are marked by Puritanism. The first Kansans were crusaders, intellectual and social pioneers, conventers of various sorts...Slavery being abolished your Kansans had to begin abolishing something else. Abolitionism was more than a conviction; it was a temperamental habit."
"Abolition, Prohibition, Populism, and Bull Moose, the Blue Sky law...these things come popping out in Kansas like bats out of hell. Sooner or later other states take up these things, and then Kansas goes on breeding other troubles."
“What’s The Matter With Kansas?” 1896
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/whatsthematter.html These tend to run off the faint hearted
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