Posted on 11/14/2014 11:35:47 AM PST by marktwain
As mothers in black urban areas learn that they have the right to be armed, and to protect their children and themselves, the support for gun control will continue to drop. It was only a few years ago that police would simply confiscate any gun that they came across in a black urban area. I heard of this practice from students and former police officers. Many commentators have noted that the original purpose of gun control was to disarm blacks.
Building on this disregard for the second amendment, property rights, and the rule of law, "progressive" politicians pushed to disarm the rest of society. This prompted the rise of the concealed carry movement to restore second amendment rights. John Lott has noted that the segment of society to most benefit from the concealed carry movement is minority women.
Second amendment supporters have welcomed minorities with open arms. The old media has attempted to ignore and downplay this development. When a black protester carried guns at an anti-Obamacare protest, MSNBC implied that he was white. From newsbusters.org:
On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: "A man at a pro-health care reform rally...wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip....there are questions about whether this has racial overtones....white people showing up with guns." Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black.It was because of the outrage of second amendment supporters that black mother Shaneen Allen was kept from being forced into years in prison, as the prosecutor originally intended, because the State of New Jersey did not recognize her concealed carry permit from across the border in Pennsylvania. Allen become the featured speaker at the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs annual meeting.
COLUMBUS (Dawn Faugl) -- A mother and her 13-year-old son were at the corner store in their neighborhood when police say two men approached them and opened fire, shooting her son in both feet. That's when the mom pulled out her licensed gun and shot back.The video at the site reveals that the police supported the Mother's actions:
Police say the mother acted in self defense.and
Police say that she had every right to shoot to protect her family.The mother obtained the pistol and permit because she feared the very men who attacked her and her son. Now she has learned that the police support her.
There is no comparison whatever between an armed and disarmed man; it is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe.... - Niccoló Machiavelli, The Prince. 1537.While Machiavelli wrote that quote before personal firearms had advanced to the point where Col. Colt had "made men and women equal", the meaning is clear.
I'm sorry..what?
Oh!
Well done, ma’am (to the black mother who defended her son).
BTW Libs, “ma’am” is term of respect in the South.
“””MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: “A man at a pro-health care reform rally...wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip....there are questions about whether this has racial overtones....white people showing up with guns.” Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black.”””
That dude was kewel.
Yes. Yes it is.
***all made black mothers particularly vulnerable to being disarmed. Now they are learning that the second amendment applies to all citizens.***
JUST NOW?
Dred Scott vs Sanford.
What the SCOTUS thought about gun control in the pre Civil War era.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html
It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs,
and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.
The right of black people to be armed was routinely trampled on. In large urban centers, a black person found with a gun simply lost it, if they were not charged with a crime.
What happened is that black people in urban centers came to believe that what the law said did not matter. The police would do what they wanted.
Now that is changing, especially when it comes to guns.
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