Tweeted @ @marklevinshow:
Chicago has the toughest gun laws in Country. This year 446 school age children have been shot and 62 killed in Chicago!
Tweeted @WilliamTeach:
Weird how Dems weren’t calling for gun control when Islamist went on a rampage at Ft. Hood
The following is excerpted from http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/335987/gun-owners-segregationists-and-jim-sleeper-charles-c-w-cooke by Charles C.W. Cooke:
Anybody who bothers to look up 1857′s Dred Scott v. Sandford decision will notice right away the court’s awful observation that if slaves were permitted to enjoy full citizenship rights, then they would — shock horror! — enjoy the right
“to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”
This, the court thought, would be disastrous.
The fear of blacks with guns is not, of course, new. The very first gun-control measures in American history were designed to keep arms out of the hands of blacks and Indians:
The Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies both prohibited the sale of guns to Indians in the early seventeenth century, and the “Black Codes” of the mid-eighteenth century required French colonists in Louisiana to disarm and beat “any black carrying any potential weapon.”
Many pre-Civil War state constitutions went further, reserving the right to bear arms … to “freemen,” which, naturally, meant whites. After their damnable cause was lost, the KKK picked up and ran with disarmament as a way of keeping blacks down.
As Adam Winkler has observed, “gun control” was “at the very top of its agenda.” The Democratic party’s “Black Codes,” which barred former slaves from owning guns in the (segregated) post-bellum South, were passed for the same purpose.
It is no accident that the first draft of the 1871 Anti-Klan Act contained a provision that made it a federal crime to
“deprive any citizen of the United States of any arms or weapons he may have in his house or possession for the defense of his person, family, or property,”
for that was exactly what segregationists set out to do.
Robert Franklin Williams’s classic work, Negroes with Guns, tells a tale of the KKK’s systematic attempt to disarm black Americans — and of the National Rifle Association’s work in forming a counter-group called the “Black Armed Guard” — as late as the as the 1950s.
As Williams points out, it was guns in the hands of his family that saved their lives and allowed them — literally — to fight the KKK and their allies.
Some good news on the LIFE front:
Another PP affiliate is cutting ties rather than accede to national Planned Parenthood’s demand to start doing abortions in their two clinics in southern New York.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/06/planned-parenthood-forces-its-affiliates-to-do-abortions/
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I wonder… if abortionists used guns to kill unborn babies, would liberals start opposing abortion?
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Are you kidding? That would just cause them to establish a new cabinet-level Federal Dept in charge of certifying abortionistas in the proper use of fully automatic weapons to make sure no baby ever survives another botched abortion. After all, the existence of those babies caused Barack a lot of grief in explaining his scorched earth, leave-no-baby-left-unkilled policy as a Senator.
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Well, as long as no one gets punished with a baby, I guess that’s all that really matters.
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Thank you for the informative post, Chrissy. I knew of, but had not read, the Dred Scott decision, and I had no idea that the Court was afraid of blacks having second amendment rights. Very eye-opening.
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Indeed, yes, thanks for this excellent piece, Chrissy. I linked a post to this over on the other site. Please let me know if that’s not ok.
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Always flattered to be linked to or by or with the Gruntster!
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Speaking of links … the Facebook thingie has a 7 in it. I’m guessing that means this has been posted on seven Facebook walls? Cool!
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Thanks, CtH. I would not repost the whole thing without prior permission, but I figure it’s ok to post cited blurbs with links to your post. Thanks, again.
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Another great series! I love when you put it all together like this.
The KKK thing never dawned on me. I knew they wanted to keep slaves illiterate(just as they did for indentured servants in Europe), but never thought much about the gun thing.
Isn’t it ironic that black people once fought for the right to education and now they do not force their kids to behave and learn in school?
Isn’t it ironic that the guns in cities like Chicago, where it is illegal for the average citizen to keep a gun, are killing all those black children. The KKK is not killing them, they are killing each other.
Liberal Logic really is insanity.
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No kidding.
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In-Satan-ity.
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This is something we all used to learn in Va. history back in the 60’s – who knows what they are learning today? It seems my children learned things like: “Katie Couric and Willard Scott are famous Virginians.” It was a sorry leap downward over one generation.
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Chrissy thank you for providing such an interesting perspective.
DNC=KKK
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