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The African-American experience with gun control-discrimination and genocide
February 9, 2009 | Tagged Gun rights mean "Power to the People!", racist roots of gun control, Second Amendment | 1 Comment
The Racist, Discriminatory, and Genocidal Roots of American Gun Control
The African-American Experience
Understand! Gun control is discrimination. The rich and powerful will always enjoy the benefits of the protection of armed force through legal privilege and bodyguards. It is only “common citizens” who are disarmed by restrictive laws and gun bans.
Hard-Left Democrats often describe the centuries of slavery and repression endured by African-Americans as a holocaust or genocide. During the Civil War, it was Southern Democrats and their northern cousins, the Copperheads, who defended slavery. Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves, was the father of the Republican Party. After the war and Lincoln’s assassination, it was most often Democrats who were the leaders in denying constitutional rights to blacks, including the right to keep and bear arms.
Before the war, the Scott V. Sanford Supreme Court Decision, often known as the Dredd Scott Case, cited the right to go armed as one of the rights of an American Citizen that was denied to a slave. Of course, the forced disarmament of black slaves and free blacks long predated the Civil War Era.
David Kopel, a prominent Colorado Attorney, who was part of the plaintiff’s legal team in the important Supreme Court Heller Decision that struck down the Washington, D.C. handgun ban, discussed the racists roots of American gun control in his book, The Samurai, The Mountie, and The Cowboy. “…the first mention of Negroes in Virginia’s laws had been a 1644 provision barring free Negroes from owning firearms…” (Page 332)
Following the War Between the States, southern “states enacted Black Codes, which barred the black freedmen from exercising basic civil rights, including the right to bear arms.” (Page 333)
“The Special Report of the Anti-Slavery Conference of 1867 complained that freedmen were ‘forbidden to own or bear firearms and thus…rendered defenseless against assaults by whites.” (Page 333) Kopel goes on to describe the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and other white racists in disarming and terrorizing blacks. (Kopel, David B., The Samurai, The Mountie, and the Cowboy, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY, 1992, Pages 332-335.)
Arniter Jamison is a black Republican activist. When interviewed in 2004, she was the Public Relations Director for the Colorado Black Republicans. She described the relationship between the Ku Klux Klan and the Democratic Party and why she is a Republican.
“Most of the intimidation and the Ku Klux Klan, which was an auxiliary of the Democratic party-…-it was their job to intimidate Republicans.” “During the Reconstruction and during ‘Jim Crow laws,’ we had the same gun control laws that they’re trying to put in place now, which meant blacks could not own guns. When the Ku Klux Klan came to intimidate them, they had no way of defending themselves.” (Hanks, Ed, “Rampart Exclusive Interview, Arniter Jamison, Communications, Colorado Black Republicans,” The Front Range Rampart, Denver, Colorado, March 4th, 2005, Pages 8 & 9.)
On 01-31-09, the History International Channel (276) ran a documentary made in 2008 from 8-10 PM Mountain Standard Time. It was entitled, Aftershock, Beyond the Civil War. This presentation detailed the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and how “Radical Republicans” fought to suppress Klan violence across the South. In 1871, President Grant deployed federal troops in an attempt to protect blacks, workers of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Union sympathizers who were being intimidated and murdered by the Kan and other white supremacist organizations.
For two other articles on the history of racism in America, see “The Democrats’ own history with race,” and “Black Leader: Democrat Party Architect of Racism.” For our purposes, however, we are more concerned with the fact that gun control was a key element during centuries of repression and genocide against African-Americans.
Gun control/disarmament is always a necessary precursor to oppression and genocide. Racists find it hard to lynch minorities, when those minorities are armed and able to effectively resist intimidation, terrorism, and murder.
To be fair to modern Democrats, there are a number of them who have supported civil rights for blacks and other minorities. Charlton Heston was a Democrat, when he marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In Colorado, we are fortunate to have a number of Democrats who support all the natural, fundamental rights of all citizens recognized by the Constitution. State Senators Isgar and Tochtrop come to mind. U.S. Representative John Salazar is a supporter of the Second Amendment.
Dr. Gary Kleck, the Florida researcher who has done groundbreaking research on defensive gun use in this country is a registered Democrat. David Kopel, quoted above, of the Independence Institute, is also a registered Democrat. There are Democrats who believe in freedom from draconian gun laws.
Let us all learn from the racist roots of American gun control. When someone says, “Power to the People!” remember that gun control has always taken power from the people and given a monopoly on armed force to those who are rich and politically connected.
Ask your Liberal acquaintances to imagine the politician that they most hate and fear. Give them a moment to think. Then, ask them a question. Do they want to pursue gun control and possibly give that despised person an absolute monopoly with regard to firearms’ possession and use?
Stay tuned for the Native American experience with regard to guns.
Def Mech
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Nice informative site.
However Lincoln did not free the slaves. His emanation proclamation only freed in theory slaves in states where he had no control.
The KKK was started by a Northern Zionist to forment trouble between the races.
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