Posted on 10/26/2014 2:34:21 PM PDT by Theoria
I read this via a link @ Ace of Spades, they are right the comments at the Times are almost completely idiotic.
I also hate the way they have their comments on the side now, it’s just very hard to navigate and annoying.
Just the comments are idiotic?
“Conventional wisdom holds that firearms are the preserve of conservative white men”
Huh?
Eh, I thought the piece was a little jumbled to tell the truth.
Laws that require showing an ID to buy a gun are discriminatory?
Sure. There should be no requirement for such. While we are at it, throw out permits.
just ask south side chicago...
I think they mean following gun laws/procedures is the preserve of conservative....
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.
judging by the number of black thugs killing other black thugs in Chicago, blacks have good gun rights
Ditto all American cities
They are excused from all law
No they don’t.
IDs are required to buy guns and thats unfair to blacks, the elderly and the poor.
Harriet Tubman iconography used to picture her with a rifle and a lantern. You don’t see the rifle nearly as much anymore.
Let's take a stroll through the hood and ask?
I think “conventional wisdom” is the wrong phrase. I think what the author meant was “because of the utter and complete liberal, academic and media bias against the 2nd Amendment, they have done everything they can to portray gun owners as white, racist, knuckle-dragging lynch mobs.”
Given the number of people killed by black men with guns compared to the number killed by white people with guns I’d say that the whites are the ones without equal gun rights.
“Conventional wisdom holds that firearms are the preserve of conservative white men.”
That’s racist! And wrong too.
In the mid eighties I saw an article in The Amsterdam News (don’t ask) arguing against the Saturday Night Special laws saying that cheap firearms are essential to a free citizenry. I wished I had saved it.
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