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This will give you an idea of how gun control laws worked. Following the firebombing of his house in 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, who was, among other things, a Christian minister, applied for a gun permit, but the Alabama authorities found him unsuitable. A decade later, he won a Nobel Peace Prize.
How's that "may issue" gun permit policy working for you?
The NRA opposed these discretionary gun permit laws and proceeded to grant NRA charters to blacks who sought to defend themselves from Klan violence -- including the great civil rights hero Robert F. Williams.
A World War II Marine veteran, Williams returned home to Monroe, N.C., to find the Klan riding high -- beating, lynching and murdering blacks at will. No one would join the NAACP for fear of Klan reprisals. Williams became president of the local chapter and increased membership from six to more than 200.
But it was not until he got a charter from the NRA in 1957 and founded the Black Armed Guard that the Klan got their comeuppance in Monroe.
Williams' repeated thwarting of violent Klan attacks is described in his stirring book, "Negroes With Guns." In one crucial battle, the Klan sieged the home of a black physician and his wife, but Williams and his Black Armed Guard stood sentry and repelled the larger, cowardly force. And that was the end of it.
As the Klan found out, it's not so much fun when the rabbit's got the gun.
The NRA's proud history of fighting the Klan has been airbrushed out of the record by those who were complicit with the KKK, Jim Crow and racial terror, to wit: the Democrats.
In the preface to "Negroes With Guns," Williams writes: "I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense -- and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence."
How about how the republicans in CA passed the first modern gun control law in an effort to disarm the black panthers in the 60's......
How about how the republicans in CA passed the first modern gun control law in an effort to disarm the black panthers in the 60's......
The Klan is and always was a terror organization of the far right. The MSNBC version of this article would just replace the word democrat with conservative. It was the "Radical Republicans" of the far left that had the progressive idea that slavery was a bad idea. Here we are 150 years later and Republicans are now the conservatives and Democrats are the progressives, so this article has nothing to do with anything.
No journalist is without bias. They are like anybody else; they have their opinion, then they go find the facts to support it, not uncover the truth. MSNBC is full of Bubblegum; and people who think that Fox News is "Fair and Balanced" are kidding themselves. Despite my middle of the road ideology I expect to recieve a "successful troll" reply from Redcap so I will save him some trouble
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The Klan is and always was a terror organization of the far right. The MSNBC version of this article would just replace the word democrat with conservative. It was the "Radical Republicans" of the far left that had the progressive idea that slavery was a bad idea. Here we are 150 years later and Republicans are now the conservatives and Democrats are the progressives, so this article has nothing to do with anything.
No journalist is without bias. They are like anybody else; they have their opinion, then they go find the facts to support it, not uncover the truth. MSNBC is full of Bubblegum; and people who think that Fox News is "Fair and Balanced" are kidding themselves. Despite my middle of the road ideology I expect to recieve a "successful troll" reply from Redcap so I will save him some trouble
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You seem confused as to the descriptors used.
Far right is Anarchy- no structure of government
All tyrannical governments are of the left, politically, whether Communist, Socialist, or Monarchist
No disrespect to you intended.
The Klan was made of democrats who opposed reconstruction after the civil war, read a book beyond Saul Alinsky. And wow you progy trash knee jerked on that one. We shouldn't be messing with your sacred black vote by speaking any truth should we?
On page 146 of his book, Professor Foner wrote: "Founded in 1866 as a Tennessee social club, the Ku Klux Klan spread into nearly every Southern state, launching a ‘reign of terror‘ against Republican leaders black and white." Page 184 of his book contains the definitive statements: "In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party's infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life."
Got a link to that whole page?
Yes, he thinks you won't find out that he made it up.Are you stupid? Kucinich is as libertarian as Joe Stalin.