First Ann Coulter article I have read in months. She's a dingbat, but on point here.
Thanks for sharing Bruce, I would not have read this had you not posted it. On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Bruce Majors <[email protected]>wrote: > > > -------- > ** > > > > http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html#read_more > > NEGROES WITH GUNS > > Ann Coulter > > April 18, 2012 > > Liberals have leapt on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida to > push for the repeal of "stand your ground" laws and to demand tighter gun > control. (MSNBC'S Karen Finney blamed "the same people who stymied gun > regulation at every point.") > > This would be like demanding more funding for the General Services > Administration after seeing how its employees blew taxpayer money on a > party weekend in Las Vegas. > > We don't know the facts yet, but let's assume the conclusion MSNBC is > leaping to is accurate: George Zimmerman stalked a small black child and > murdered him in cold blood, just because he was black. > > If that were true, every black person in America should get a gun and join > the National Rifle Association, America's oldest and most august civil > rights organization. > > Apparently this has occurred to no one because our excellent public > education system ensures that no American under the age of 60 has the > slightest notion of this country's history. > > Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out > of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to > proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic > Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance. > > (Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the > Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the > Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every > Democrat is an ACLU'er, but every ACLU'er is a Democrat. Same with the > Klan.) > > In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was > passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks -- even freemen -- could not > own guns. > > Chief Justice Roger Taney's infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford > circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were > citizens, they would have the right to own guns: "[I]t would give them the > full liberty," he said, "to keep and carry arms wherever they went." > > > With logic like that, Republicans eventually had to fight a Civil War to > get the Democrats to give up slavery. > > Alas, they were Democrats, so they cheated. > > After the war, Democratic legislatures enacted "Black Codes," denying > black Americans the rights of citizenship -- such as the rather crucial one > of bearing arms -- while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) > founded the Ku Klux Klan. > > For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported > arming blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats. > > The original draft of the Anti-Klan Act of 1871 -- passed at the urging of > Republican president Ulysses S. Grant -- made it a federal felony to > "deprive any citizen of the United States of any arms or weapons he may > have in his house or possession for the defense of his person, family, or > property." This section was deleted from the final bill only because it was > deemed both beyond Congress' authority and superfluous, inasmuch as the > rights of citizenship included the right to bear arms. > > Under authority of the Anti-Klan Act, President Grant deployed the U.S. > military to destroy the Klan, and pretty nearly completed the job. > > But the Klan had a few resurgences in the early and mid-20th century. > Curiously, wherever the Klan became a political force, gun control laws > would suddenly appear on the books. > > This will give you an idea of how gun control laws worked. Following the > firebombing of his house in 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, who was, among > other things, a Christian minister, applied for a gun permit, but the > Alabama authorities found him unsuitable. A decade later, he won a Nobel > Peace Prize. > > How's that "may issue" gun permit policy working for you? > > The NRA opposed these discretionary gun permit laws and proceeded to grant > NRA charters to blacks who sought to defend themselves from Klan violence > -- including the great civil rights hero Robert F. Williams. > > A World War II Marine veteran, Williams returned home to Monroe, N.C., to > find the Klan riding high -- beating, lynching and murdering blacks at > will. No one would join the NAACP for fear of Klan reprisals. Williams > became president of the local chapter and increased membership from six to > more than 200. > > But it was not until he got a charter from the NRA in 1957 and founded the > Black Armed Guard that the Klan got their comeuppance in Monroe. > > Williams' repeated thwarting of violent Klan attacks is described in his > stirring book, "Negroes With Guns." In one crucial battle, the Klan sieged > the home of a black physician and his wife, but Williams and his Black > Armed Guard stood sentry and repelled the larger, cowardly force. And that > was the end of it. > > As the Klan found out, it's not so much fun when the rabbit's got the gun. > > The NRA's proud history of fighting the Klan has been airbrushed out of > the record by those who were complicit with the KKK, Jim Crow and racial > terror, to wit: the Democrats. > > In the preface to "Negroes With Guns," Williams writes: "I have asserted > the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed > self-defense -- and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right > of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the > law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must > act in self-defense against lawless violence." > > Contrary to MSNBC hosts, I do not believe the shooting in Florida is > evidence of a resurgent KKK. But wherever the truth lies in that case, gun > control is always a scheme of the powerful to deprive the powerless of the > right to self-defense. > > COPYRIGHT 2012 ANN COULTER > > > __._,_.___ > Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web > post<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Individual-Sovereignty/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJycDlocGloBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0MjA3MzcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MzAzMjkyBG1zZ0lkAzI2NzE3MQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNycGx5BHN0aW1lAzEzMzQ4NDc1NjY-?act=reply&messageNum=267171>| > Start > a New > Topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Individual-Sovereignty/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlOTZxdmE1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0MjA3MzcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MzAzMjkyBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTMzNDg0NzU2Ng--> > Messages in this > topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Individual-Sovereignty/message/267171;_ylc=X3oDMTM4bnRkdG42BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0MjA3MzcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MzAzMjkyBG1zZ0lkAzI2NzE3MQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzEzMzQ4NDc1NjYEdHBjSWQDMjY3MTcx>( > 1) > Recent Activity: > > > Visit Your > Group<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Individual-Sovereignty;_ylc=X3oDMTJlZG9zdG1wBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0MjA3MzcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MzAzMjkyBHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZnaHAEc3RpbWUDMTMzNDg0NzU2Ng--> > Report any problems, suggestions or abuse to > [email protected] > > [image: Yahoo! > Groups]<http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJkbXZzdGdkBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzI0MjA3MzcEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MzAzMjkyBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2dmcARzdGltZQMxMzM0ODQ3NTY2> > Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of > Use<http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> > . > > __,_._,___ > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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