“I believe that Gun Appreciation Day honors the legacy of Dr. King.”

alecto wrote:So do you think that if Africans (slaves) were granted the right to keep and bear arms the day they stepped foot on american soil that they would have willingly remained slaves, that they would have endured all the torture and atrocities knowing they had the right to own and keep a firearm. Kind of odd that they use to pass laws to prevent blacks, freeman, and slaves from owning firearms. Wonder why they would do that?

You don't have a real firm grasp of how slavery worked, do you?

Yes, if Africans had been granted the rights of free men when they arrived in America, they wouldn't have been slaves. Nice job, Einstein.

I don't think it honors MLK but it is an interesting thought.

Sal wrote:Hey!

Remember when black people really got into carrying guns around in reality?

Do you remember who had a problem with that?

Don Mulford, a conservative Republican state assemblyman from Alameda County, which includes Oakland, was determined to end the Panthers’ police patrols. To disarm the Panthers, he proposed a law that would prohibit the carrying of a loaded weapon in any California city…

Republicans in California eagerly supported increased gun control. Governor Reagan told reporters that afternoon that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” He called guns a “ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/?single_page=true