The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Racism at its best.
The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Racism at its best.Let me take you back to a time not so long ago: Once upon a time there lived an unhappy group of people in a British Colony. These people were tired of the oppressive British Empire and wanted to form their own government where they could be free. So, like any good revolutionary group would, they gathered their guns and went to war against the mightiest army in the world. They won, and to ensure the very freedoms they had fought for, they drafted a constitution and a Bill of Rights. Our textbook, American Government, Ninth Edition, discussed at length in Ch 11 the Bill of Rights and civil liberties such as the Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition, It even discussed the Rights of the Criminally Accused, however, it completely omitted the Second Amendment from its discussion. Perhaps the Author did not know that without the Right to Bear arms there would likely be no Bill of Rights, Perhaps the author does not understand that the Second Amen!dment is the only Amendment that enforces our method of government. Maybe, the author like so many shortsighted Americans today, does not believe in the Second Amendment. The most disturbing possi
Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. The KKK was a very powerful political force. At its high point in the 1920s, KKK membership exceeded four million, and even outside the deep South the KKK "came to exercise great political power, dominating for a time the states of Oregon, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, and California," as well as wielding substantial power in New Jersey and Illinois (FREDERICK LEWIS ALLEN, ONLY YESTERDAY: AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF THE NINETEEN-TWENTIES 66 (1931); A Congressional ban on cheap handguns, what we refer to today as "Saturday Night Specials," was proposed by a Tennessee senator for the express purpose of allowing "the dominant race" to prevent "the carrying by colored people of a concealed deadly weapon, most often a pistol (65 CONG REC. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. Here are a few quotes they might ponder: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "-- Thomas Paine, (Thoughts on Defensive War (1775). Also, armed protestors demanding equal treatment have a great deal more clout than Pickett Sign yielding protestors. However, It would take too many hours for me to tell you about all the Genocides and Holocausts that have happened to un-armed populations.
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