As much as we in the gun rights movement may not want to admit it, many applaud Attorney general Eric Holder's disclosure that a new "assault weapons" ban is waiting in the wings. And many of these voices are in the "black community".
Here's one such voice, Madison J. Gray of Black Voices. The provocative title of his article tells us much about his mindset-- "Ban on Assault Weapons: A Good Idea for the Gun Nuts."
Shall we see if his reasoning is equally inviting?
[T]hose of you who read me regularly, know how much I HATE guns. The very concept of handling a device that is actually designed for the sole purpose of ending a human life, I find abhorrent...
I've written here before against people who have a bloodlust for killing, and are pompous enough to call it self-defense.
So people who load up on weapons just because the president is concerned about things other than people's right to a phallic substitute won't get much respect from me.
I'm not going to spend time here "fisking" Mr. Gray's irrational and hate-filled screed. The comment posters on his site have done more than an adequate job of taking him to task. Still, this opens the door to discussing a "third rail" we cannot avoid if we are to have a complete dialog: guns and race, or more accurately, gun rights and racism.
So when President Obama says "what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne," demographics must not be excluded from the factors he thinks make Chicago and Cheyenne dissimilar enough to warrant recognizing different rights. It's time to speak plainly about this and stop being, as AG Holder recently called us, "a nation of cowards" when it comes to race. It's a subject I'll be exploring in the coming days and as I feel it is warranted.
Just know this: It is not we gun rights activists who wish to see peaceable minorities (along with all non-government-employed human beings) disarmed. It is, among others, "black voices" like Madison J. Gray.
For now, I want to refer you to a column I did some months back that newer readers no doubt missed: "An open letter that never closed." If you haven't read it, please do so, as it lays a foundation for arguments I will be building in the coming days.
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Howard stern on the radio
How's that for a cheap, transparent and misleading ploy to get noticed by the search engines? It's Austin Gun Rights Examiner Howard Nemerov, actually, and he won't be stern at all unless someone wants to mess with our guns. He just sent me an email, and I thought you'd be interested:
I will be on NRA News Wednesday night at
9:40 Central11:20 PM EST time to discuss my report on the TSRA annual meeting.
So sorry, if you're here because you're looking for raunchy humor. Why not put the trivial aside for a while and learn a bit about your unalienable right to keep and bear arms? After all, if it's good enough for Howard Stern, or Robert De Niro, or Donald Trump...
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Important South Dakota Gun Vote
HB 1278, the bill to end city gun bans, has been referred to the Senate State Affairs committee. It is scheduled for a vote on the morning of Wednesday, March 4th.
That's like, now...South Dakota Gun Owners tells you what you need to do. Pretty much immediately.
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Denver Gun Rights Examiner: Mental toughness
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Minneapolis Gun Rights Examiner: An open letter to Senator Jim Webb and pro-gun democrats
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Comments
David,
Don't forget Jessie Jackson and his ilk also need African Americans to remain victims so he can maintain his authority.
It is a fact that the Chicago projects, nearly 100% minority, bans guns and used to have mandatory sign in/out rosters for residents under "Operation Clean Sweep".
daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2007/12/racism-and-gun-control.html
Of course the politics of using race to promote gun control are as old as the US.
daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2007/12/gun-control-and-racism-ii.html
Can't wait David.
OT, Examiner needs to go back to the old layout/system, having to click through several pages to get to today's article is a bit annoying
The sad thing is that commentators like Ken Blanchard of www.blackmanwithagun.com are ignored by both sides of the argument while Jesse and Al have a camera crew following them around.
I'm glad to see that you intend to tackle this subject. As a BMWAG I've had this conversation more times than I can count. The problem I often run into is that the denizens of Urbania (minority or otherwise) are often so many generations removed from liberty, that they simply can't imagine being free.
Futher, anyone who implies that they can make themselves free is either crazy or a racist. Good luck trying to convince urban minorities that it's the liberal racists and race hustlers that have disarmed them that are the enemy and not the Redneck boogey man whom they've never met.
Hopefully, while your on the subject, you'll touch on how much less harassment from "Only-Ones" that uban minorities would have to suffer if they weren't forced to be ENTIRELY dependant on the state for protection.
I've always wondered why no one has ever pointed out how implicitly racist the idea of "Cheyanne Vs Chicago" is. Its one that should be capitlized on much more, as it is a lever that hasn't been pulled as often but has the potential to lift a lot of weight and can probably change many minds.
As usual, I fail to see what's so complicated about this. The history of modern gun control is the history of Jim Crow racism. (Look it up for yourself--start with the Slave Codes--the parallels shine like a beacon.) Anyone who continues to stump for either of these concepts admits full conceptual support for the other. (Obviously, the people who make their living exploiting those they claim so loudly to represent--sounds like a description of government in general, dunnit?--do not want others to hear this.)
The real problem, of course, has nothing to do with race, it has to do with (surprise) liberty. The reason some people can't stomach the thought of peasants with arms is that such people are INDEPENDENT (perhaps even "uppity"), and must be treated like (gasp) human beings by those who would claim to rule them. If some people are further disturbed by peasants who also happen to be black/red/brown/female/gay/Sikh/Hindu/<different>, it is a matter of degree only, not of principle. For the student of history, it is quite obvious that there is only one difference between forcibly subjugating selected groups, and forcibly subjugating the general population: time.
EVERYONE has rights, whether they claim them or not, and the liberty community welcomes anyone who recognizes that.
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Also, ditto on the thumbs-down for the new Examiner format. Much more cumbersome than the previous layout.
Dear David,
The new layout of the examiner pages is really terrible. I can't discover any way to tell them so... Amazing that an organization so devoted to feedback does not list any way to comment on the site overall. Any ideas?
I'm sure your readers would like to know.
David:
How about doing an Examiner on the background of the 14th amendment "incorporation" cases pending in Chicago? These cases seek to restore second amendment rights to Americans living in states and cities that infringe their rights.
Of course, the 14th amendment was established to clarify that the fundamental rights of Americans (including the right to own and carry guns, of course) extended to African-Americans.
So I ironically, these cases are using laws designed specifically to restore gun rights to African-Americans ... and at the same time, some of the most outspoken gun control advocates are African-Americans. Those people must foolishly think that illegally legislating helplessness (gun control) will somehow stop young male African-Americans from killing each other.
Unbelievable.
Some folks can not live without chains. Some folks have become enslaved so much that they can not imagine a life without them. Even still, some folks can not live without the oppressor regardless of their color and might even protect the oppressor and even begin to love their oppressor i.e. Stockholm syndrome. Well if Black folks continue to support legislation like this and others then they will live with literal chains later.
1789
i have to disagree with what was ritten about gun rights and how ppl use guns. i think thats just becouse some ppl use guns for a bad thing why do good ppl like me and my family how use guns as a way of life it is how i help feed my family why should we give them up? we have done nothing rong i have the licens and permits to own a gun. ppl say well if we ban guns then they will be harder to get. u know what i say bull crap it will just make it to where ppl want it more becouse they r not supposed to have it. some ppl who rread this may think that io am a man just becouse. well im a 14 yr old girl. and when i look at my life ahead with out guns i see no way to protect my self and to help feed my family.
Regarding to Gun Control:
The minorities think that gun control laws are racist. This is very innaccurate, but i can understand why they feel this way. It is because there are more blacks and mexicans that are charged with gun crimes than other races. It is also a proven fact that this is because there are significantly more minorities using guns to commit crime than there are white people, or people of other races. If you don't like the laws quit committing the crimes.
Regarding Racism:
Racism does exist, but not like it used to. Now it is backwards. It has become the whites who have been targeted now. There are no laws protecting the whites. There are laws that require a certain number of jobs for minorities of each specific race, the same for school scholarships, there are special clubs, a black and native american history month, heck we can even burn an American flag but it is considered racist to burn the mexican flag! This is backwards, what ever happened to Equality!!
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