Thus starts a valuable conversation.
Joy Behar, stumbled on to the truth long established in gun control acts: “Here’s the thing, once Black people get guns in this country, the gun laws will change. Trust me” said Behar.
History supports her “view” absolutely.
With the internet now as a tool, what actually happened can be found.
Since 1640 on this continent at least, gun control has had racist foundations. But that’s a given huh?
Brady, Giffords, Moms, Marchers, Everytown ,Change, et al, all gun control orgs shares that history. Like it or not. It won’t be rich white men that will be barred from owning guns, no, it will be the same innocent minorities denied their inalienable rights. To keep them safe from themselves? Or keep the white activists from the scary others?
Here’s just a glimpse of the racist truth of Gun Control. Ugly, hate-based and without justice. Some things never change. And make sure you search on DUCKDUCKGO.com The algorithms aren’t so skewed to take you where the Woke want to lead you:
https://www.sedgwickcounty.org/media/29093/the-racist-origins-of-us-gun-control.pdf
It’s just reality that Gun Control was racist from its enactment. Isn’t that the pronouncement? I don’t think armed people make for easy slaves do you?
What makes Gun Control fanatics so driven to control the rights of a free populace? It can’t be safety. 77-million people (at least) own guns in the USA. There is over 350-million guns. And counting. So, “gun crimes” and “gun violence” can’t even make up a hundredth of one-percent of the known guns in existence.
(And by the way, why is it that a Cop is guilty for shooting someone but a civilian’s gun gets the charge? But then again, gun control fanatics know as much about statistics as they do about ballistics. I mean their leader thinks a 5.56 NATO bullet travels at 22,000 feet per second. That’s 15,000 miles per hour. That’s lunatic fringe gone White House babble. But that’s Infringers for you. Don’t let actual facts get in the way of a good protest chant.
Think about every tyrant you can. They take control of a country – almost always via “democracy” – and then take away weapons from the very citizens they claim to be from and all in the name of progress and then treat the uneasy and unwilling-unarmed the way of the slaughterhouse.
And before 20th Century Tyrants arose, there was vintage Gun Control tyranny anyway.
https://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/georgias-carry-laws-explained/history-of-georgias-carry-laws/the-racist-roots-of-gun-control/ – Here is a sample: Gun control advocates today are not so foolish as to openly promote racist laws, and so the question might be asked what relevance the racist past of gun control laws has. One concern is that the motivations for disarming blacks in the past are really not so different from the motivations for disarming law-abiding citizens today. In the last century, the official rhetoric in support of such laws was that “they” were too violent, too untrustworthy, to be allowed weapons. Today, the same elitist rhetoric regards law-abiding Americans in the same way, as child-like creatures in need of guidance from the government. In the last century, while never openly admitted, one of the goals of disarming blacks was to make them more willing to accept various forms of economic oppression, including the sharecropping system, in which free blacks were reduced to an economic state not dramatically superior to the conditions of slavery.
Sound familiar? Remember history forgotten in any town is history repeated in every town.
But there’s today too: As more people take notice that Black Americans are legal gun owners, too, race and racism may play an increasingly explicit role in debates over gun rights and gun control reforms . . . Since January 2019, 7.5 million people, or almost 3% of the U.S. adult population, bought guns for the first time, according to a recent study. Black people, who accounted for 20% of the first-time purchases, make up about 12% of the U.S. population.
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/08/racism-gun-rights (Note, this article is from the APA. Take it with a handful of grains of salt.)
But there are still fantastic heroes of the past. Heroes that looked gun control in the face and stood tall or freedom and liberty. Introducing my favorite.
Ida B Wells-Barnet:
“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
But not in Chicago right? DC? New Jersey? California? Smell the history repeating? Racist history?
Lot’s of “Browning of America” in those places!!!!
Lot’s of elitist politicians taking away gun rights from them.
And the Winchester (AKA 1860 Henry Rifle ) is a High Capacity rifle. Turned down by the military and sold to civilians. But regulated if Blacks wanted one. Look up the Black Codes.
But there’s more: Having won their national independence from England through armed struggle, post-Revolutionary War Americans were acutely (p.69)aware that the sword and sovereignty go hand in hand, and that the firearms technology ushered in a new epoch in the human struggle for freedom. Furthermore, both proponents and opponents of slavery were cognizant that an armed black population meant the abolition of slavery, although plantation slaves were often trusted with arms for hunting.[9] This sociological fact explained not only the legal disarming of blacks but also the advocacy of a weapons culture by abolitionists. Having employed the instruments for self-defense against his pro-slavery attackers, abolitionist and Republican Party founder Cassius Marcellus Clay wrote that “`the pistol and the Bowie knife’ are to us as sacred as the gown and the pulpit.”
This conversation is begun with a man, Constitutional Rights and his Concealed Carry Permit in mind:
Philando Castile
