Posted on 05/17/2002 3:22:16 PM PDT by moyden
Anyone of you think he has something in common with Gus Hall?
Yes, sure, slaveowners had guns, and feared their slaves, and feared their slaves owning guns. So what's Moore's solution? To disarm everybody - in short, to put us all in the position of those slaves.
Racist Politicians Want Your Guns
Common Sense
Racist Politicians Want Your Guns
Commentary by Richard W. Stevens, JD Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
What's the dirty little secret behind "gun control" in America? Here are some hints: Working forever without pay. Whipping and torture. Buying and selling of human beings. Hate. Fear. Suspicion. Terrorism.
These hints recall the evil days of slavery, and post-Civil War periods of rule by terror. Those who would own human beings as slaves created "gun control" laws to keep the power in their own hands. They could not keep African slaves and their American descendants under lifelong control without making sure the slaves remained unarmed.
Free black people had served honorably and with distinction in the Revolutionary War. Yet under a 1792 federal law, black men could not serve as part of the state militias. In Louisiana, slaves were forbidden to use a firearm even in self-defense. In South Carolina, slaves could not possess guns without a master's permission. Black persons, whether slave or free, had to have a license or a judge's permission before they could carry a firearm in Florida and Delaware. For black people, guns were banned entirely in several states. Florida l aws empoweredwhite "citizen patrols" to invade and search blacks' homes for guns or other weapons. None of these policies applied, of course, to white people.
After the Civil War, "gun control" laws kept black people "in their place." Blacks had to obtain licenses to have guns in Mississippi and Louisiana. Alabama banned all guns in 1866 -- for blacks. Later, Alabama and Texas placed huge taxes on the sale of handguns, which effectively banned guns for the poor.
Tennessee and Arkansas banned the inexpensive handguns which were the only types that poor black people could afford. South Carolina banned all handguns, except those for police and deputies.
Those American "gun control" laws worked: they disarmed most black people. The Ku Klux Klan and others could freely terrorize black families without fear. Unarmed victims couldn't shoot back. Lynch law ruled, and claimed at least 3,446 lives up through the end of the Civil Rights movement.
Gun registration. Licensing. Judicial permit. Police approval. High taxes on guns and ammunition. Selective gun bans. Total gun bans. Police "gun sweeps" of private homes. Sound familiar?
The "gun control" lobby advocates all of these policies today. These policies historically worked in the past to disarm a targeted people. These policies will have the same effect now.
Although the gun prohibitionists have dropped the race hate rhetoric, they use the tried-and-true methods of the slave owners and Klansmen. The same means must achieve the same end: control of the unarmed people.
The slave owners feared that armed slaves would not long tolerate their condition. Modern politicians act like they have the same fear. Are we peaceful American citizens the modern day slaves who must be kept in our place?
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Maybe that is because you are one of those "Stupid White Men... and other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!" Mr. Michael Moore!
How very disappointing it must have been for Michael when the Columbine parents turned out not to be CCW holding NRA members, but gun control advocates.
The hostile response was there to make the conservatives remain in hiding. "First Amendment" is a National Democratic-Socialist trademarked phrase, don't you know. You were lucky that you weren't sued for infringement.
"You have the right to free speech; that's if you're not dumb enough to actually try it."
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Interesting point. However, if the blacks had had guns, and were never sold into slavery, then they would all still be living in Zaire and Nigeria, and their decendents would not now be living in America. Just how many of todays black decendents want to live in Nigeria instead of America?
I'll bet that was a titanic struggle.
I have an aunt who spews this crap, too. She knows I'm a conservative and tries to bait me when we're at family dinners and other outings. I usually don't bite because a family dinner is place for light conversation, not a loud political roundtable. The couple of times that I've engaged her, I went for the throat and damn near made her cry. I'm not bragging, she had the major disadvantage trying to defend Klinton.
The last time that I read about something that "hoves into view", it was pertaining to Napoleonic War Line-of-Battle ships.
Then, again, if you think of it, the girth of an old-style 100-gunner just about fits the silhouette of Michael Moore.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I think this quote reveals more than he wanted to. If we flip this around, we see that they view our guns as the only impediment to these commies implementing their socialist dream and stripping the achievers of everything they earn.
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