Braxton McCoy

It was 07, but I think August of 07.

Damn.

Shit.

Nice.

Sort of classy.

I try to not say this too much because it's such a heated thing, but another thing is, man, I volunteer as a sheriff's deputy now.

I got in a gunfight last year for my community.

I heard that.

You're going to call me a fucking communist, dude?

When somebody asks me how did we end up with public land, my answer is conquest.

War, treaties, purchase.

That's how we did it.

you go all the way back to the articles of confederation you can see this idea emerge that the people of the united states who just fought this war to free themselves of a king owned this land now there were so at the time georgia

let's see, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, those states had made claims on land that went all the way to the Mississippi River.

So that means that South Carolina, Maryland, places like that are now landlocked.

So they're debating these issues, trying to put together a government,

you know, while we're winning this war over here.

And those seven states who were landlocked were saying, hey, wait a minute, this is our blood and treasure on the line too.

You don't get to just claim all of this extra territory and lock us out of the potential for growth and development and all of that.

So the agreement they come to is that we will design state borders and put the rest that will seed these other states, colonies at the time, will seed that land to the federal government in the public trust