how do they figure.....?
what has caused more gun committed crimes , the bloods and crips, or the KKK....?
unless i am taking that the wrong way, i don't see how it is
When are we going to start the reality campaign?
I think banners like the above, and some of the others I've seen, really drive home a message that sticks.
Regardless of the original intention of gun control, I think we can all agree on one thing. Gun control these days is clearly colorblind and seeks to make ALL of us defenseless, regardless of race. We all need to band together, regardless of race, to defeat this damn gun control as far as I'm concerned.
Some of you boys need to do a little reading and research. Many of the post civil war "Black Codes" were designed to prevent blacks from owning firearms, or at least modern (for the time) firearms. Some codes even prohibited blacks from owning (by name) Winchester rifles or Colt revolvers. Some codes just specified "army caliber" (.36 or .44) revolvers.
The poster is commenting on the historic roots of gun control, not current efforts.
Some of you boys need to do a little reading and research. Many of the post civil war "Black Codes" were designed to prevent blacks from owning firearms, or at least modern (for the time) firearms. Some codes even prohibited blacks from owning (by name) Winchester rifles or Colt revolvers. Some codes just specified "army caliber" (.36 or .44) revolvers.
The poster is commenting on the historic roots of gun control, not current efforts.
The poster is NOT commenting on history, but making a statement about the present and is using present tense. It says, "Gun control is racist."
You guys are going deep.
David, you forgot to mention she has a Russian rifle ... symbol of the struggle of the proletariat class.
Someone sent it to me and I figured I'd post it to get a rise out of people.
George Mason University Civil Rights Law JournalThe first gun control laws were enacted in the ante-bellum South forbidding blacks, whether free or slave, to possess arms, in order to maintain blacks in their servile status. After the Civil War, the South continued to pass restrictive firearms laws in order to deprive the newly freed blacks from exercising their rights of citizenship. During the later part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, gun control laws were passed in the South in order to disarm agrarian reformers and in the North to disarm union organizers. In the North, a strong xenophobic reaction to recent waves of immigrants added further fuel for gun control laws which were used to disarm such persons. Other firearms ownership restrictions were adopted in order to repress the incipient black civil rights movement.
Floid Droid -
Get a clue and realize that there is truth in some things that you do not personally believe and the everyone, EVERYONE, not just liberals, have a right to say things that others think are offensive.
Gun control was a direct result of southern bigots trying to control and manipulate the freed slaves and those that were trying to help them.
Gun control these days is clearly colorblind and seeks to make ALL of us defenseless, regardless of race.
Cite your sources droid, or admit that you are using your personal views as basis for an argument that is inherently wrong.