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"Gun control," as forcible citizen disarmament is generally referred to, owes its American origins to racism. An example would be this Reconstruction Era law, in Louisiana:
"No negro who is not in the military service shall be allowed to carry fire-arms, or any kind of weapons, within the parish, without the special written permission of his employers, approved and endorsed by the nearest and most convenient chief of patrol."
Another would be this one, in Mississippi:
"No freedman, free Negro, or mulatto not in the military service of the United States government, and not licensed so to do by the board of police of his or her county, shall keep or carry firearms of any kind..."
Such laws were, of course, quite a boon to the KKK, who could have more confidence in their victims' inability to fight back effectively. Conversely, of course, this kind of law was very bad news for blacks in the South, which is why the Reconstruction Era Fourteenth Amendment was intended to protect Second Amendment rights against restrictive state and local laws, as demonstrated by Senator Jacob Howard's 1866 speech introducing the 14th Amendment (my emphasis added):
To these privileges and immunities, whatever they may be – for they are not and cannot be fully defined in their entire extent and precise nature – to these should be added the personal rights guaranteed by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as the freedom of speech and of the press; the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances, a right pertaining to each and all of the people; the right to keep and bear arms . . .
Interestingly (and as has already been pointed out), it seems that Violence Policy Center executive director Josh Sugarmann would approve of such laws, as he makes clear in a piece he wrote about black homicide rates.
Successful efforts to reduce America's black homicide toll must put a focus on reducing access to firearms.
Sugarmann presumably knows that the perpetrators of homicides in which the victim is black are themselves overwhelmingly black.
Of single victim/single offender incidents, 91.1% of black victims were murdered by black offenders, and 82.5% of white victims were murdered by white offenders.
In other words, according to Sugarmann, the "focus" must be put on reducing blacks' "access to firearms." Nathan Bedford Forrest would be proud.
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I guess the problem is that free men all look alike.
If you read the brief filed by the State of Illinois, in defense of Chicago's gun ban, you'll see they defend the *black codes* on grounds that they want to disarm everybody.
Yeah--I love that reasoning. If trampling one ethnic group's rights is immoral, we'll just trample EVERYBODY's. It's almost as if the Chicago side of that case is trying to lose.
HA , THE LOWLIFE AT IT, TRYIN TO SAY WE DONT ,HAVE ALL 5 FINGERS,RACEIST REMARKS, DONT DO NOTHING, BUT SHOW HOW STUPID THE ANTI-GUN NUTS ARE, WE ARE ALL THE SAME,THE GOOD, THE BAD ,THE UGLY, YA ITLL BE A COLD DAY IN HELL BEFOR THEY PRI MY GUN OUTA MY COLD DEAD HANDS...............................................
a couple of months ago i met up with a negro while we were rabbit hunting, and didn't reaslize that his 20 gauge pump was illegal! should i have turned him in? he was light skinned, and wasn't speaking ebonics; perhaps i should have called harry reid, or chris matthews to find out how to handle this situation. we didn't shoot each other so i guess it ended on a high note. moral of story; political correctness has reallllllly gone to far!
Excerpts:
Hispanics and Firearms Violence
“Hispanics and Firearms Violence details the effects of firearms on the Hispanic community.”
“Although rarely publicized, America's Hispanic population suffers from firearms violence at rates far greater than the U.S. population overall. In 1998, 72 percent of Hispanic homicide victims were killed with a firearm (compared to 74 percent of black victims and 56 percent of white victims).”
“The issue of Hispanics and firearms violence is seldom analyzed by the public, press, or policymakers.”
“With Hispanics comprising the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the United States, the issue of firearms violence and Hispanics should be of great concern to the entire nation.”
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --”
“the declaration of independence was referring to white men as being equal,” the ugly truth
Ugly, are you so vacant of historical knowledge as to think those who wrote this Declaration were unaware of the existence of ‘Black‘ men? That these words were not chosen with the utmost consideration and profound awareness of the implications contained in the statements?
Sir, a ‘Black’ man was killed in the Boston Massacre in 1770. A ‘Black’ man was among the Minutemen facing the British at Lexington in 1775. ‘Black’ men served in the battles at Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill, were members of Militias and others were enlisting in the Continental Army in January '76.
Historical Bone to Pick:
NBF wasn't particularly racist for that era, no more so than Dishonest Abe, if you actually study both. Abe actually probably edged him out in racism. Forrest wanted States Rights and a peaceful resolution of order and disassociated himself from the Klan when it became a violent extremist racial organization rather than more of a political one. Abe wanted to ship the blacks back to Africa and saw no way that the US would survive as a bi-racial nation. He mused about that DIRECTLY in several speeches and letters over the course of his career. His emancipation proclamation didn't even free the slaves in the Union, it just hypothetically freed the slaves in the Confederate States before he'd even won the war.
I thought those with the "The Brady Bunch" were color blind. I guess Josh Sugarmann is the exception. There is one other infamous person with "Sugarmann's" attitude and that is Margaret Sanger the head Bigot who wanted to kill off all blacks. I guess it's ok to come Sugarmann and Sanger. My Question: do we include Jim & Sarah Brady in the same group of Bigots. If it's not "Disarming" society in general, it's disarming racially. NOW WE FINALLY SEE THE TRUE COLOR OF THE BRADY CAMPAIGN and their pogrom that hides just under the surface of their squeaky clean organization.
The founding fathers found it necessary to put the second amendment in because they realized that Americans need protection against the second amendment.
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