NEGROES WITH GUNS - The story of how the 2nd Amendment prevented bloodshed in the 60's.

Black Man with a Gun ^ | 12/29/01 12:22:27 | Dr. Michael S. Brown of Vancouver, WA

[vannrox]

This is an interesting bit of history that you won't find anywhere else.

[Poohbah]

Using military-surplus rifles from behind sandbag fortifications, the small band of freedom fighters drove off the larger force of Klansmen with no casualties reported on either side.

The small band of freedom fighters obviously needed some marksmanship training.

[Nat Turner]

SHHHHH you better hide and RENOUNCE this dangerous historical fact < /sarcasm off>

[rdb3]

And this is a perfect statement to make to the anti-2nd Amendment nuts.

[Sabertooth]

((((((growl)))))

[rdb3]

The small band of freedom fighters obviously needed some marksmanship training.

No, they did right by just driving off the trouble makers. Had any white been killed during this, they would have all been hung.

[B4Ranch]

"During most of the 1960's I did civil rights work in various parts of the South and almost always had with me a .38 special Smith and Wesson 2-inch-barrel revolver - what you would now erroneously call a "Saturday Night Special."

Someone needs to explain to the writer that the ".38 Smith and Wesson 2-inch-barrel revolver" is commonly known as the "Chiefs Special", it never made it down to the term "Saturday Night Special"

[Poohbah]

No, they did right by just driving off the trouble makers. Had any white been killed during this, they would have all been hung.

Sorry, but I disagree.

"Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send on of his to the morgue!"

[zook]

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[Incorrigible]

Abolitionist's rifle engulfs N.J. artist in fray [A PC conundrum]

Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ^ | 06/13/00 | John Yocca
Abolitionist's rifle engulfs N.J. artist in fray 06/13/00 By John Yocca STAFF WRITER Her every step a perilous one, famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman could afford no slip-ups as she shuttled slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. Timing was tight, indecision an enemy. When escaped slaves in her care hesitated on the frightening march to liberation, Tubman, a determined and gritty former slave herself, coaxed them northward with a loaded gun. A century-and-a-half later, New Jersey artist Mike Alewitz chose that image of Tubman -- a lantern in one hand, a rifle in the other -- as the centerpiece ...

[Bogey78O]

You can disagree but a lynch mob would have seen to it guns or not. What would have happened is they would most likely be detained and their guns removed then after that the Klan would just storm the jail and get the unarmed black men.

I wish they'd have hit too but it may have been for the best.

[johnboy]

"NEGROES WITH GUNS"

aka: "American Patriots (who just happened to be black) With Guns."

i'm sure they made a movie out of this starring gary cooper, et al., set in the old west.

in plot, etc., what distinguishes this from "the dirty dozen," a "fistful of dollars," and the like?

[blam]

"The simple existence of guns in the hands of men who were willing to use them prevented greater violence."

Works every time. Everyone around here knows that I like my guns.

[Poohbah]

You can disagree but a lynch mob would have seen to it guns or not. What would have happened is they would most likely be detained and their guns removed then after that the Klan would just storm the jail and get the unarmed black men.

Ah, that's when it's time for taking the gloves off and going medieval on their Biblical Beasts of Burden.

After a while, even the Kluckers would get the hint.

[Shooter 2.5]

The story of Athens, Tennessee was retold in movie form and called "An American Story". The weird part of this is that the production company is anti-gun Hallmark Greeting Cards.
What happened in Athens was that the Mayor and his cronies were losing an election so they stole the ballot box. It was retrieved by an armed group of law abiding veterans of WWII.

[mhking]

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[teeman8r]

that's the chicago way... they were in mississippi...

[Poohbah]

True enough.

Malone was a great character, and a great performance by Sean Connery.

[unixfox]

And to think that most blacks vote for the very party that is intent on taking away their guns!!!

[dcwusmc]

Marksmanship bump