Gun Grabbers Still Think Pro-Gun Is Pro Racism

By Tom Knighton

You see, they still seem to believe that being pro-gun is somehow a symptom of being a white male and that the idea of armed “people of color” is somehow an anathema to us. No, I’m really not making this one up, because that’s exactly what this story on Salon says:

I have a theory that the quickest way to get legislative gun control in this country would be to start a movement that successfully convinces millions of black folks to join the NRA. I’m not pro-gun, I just know that a gun rights movement fueled largely by white fright would suddenly see the logic in gun restrictions if more people that didn’t look like them carried firearms.

That’s what happened in the late 1960s when the Black Panther Party for Self Defense started patrolling Oakland’s black neighborhoods while openly carrying guns, which was perfectly legal according to California law. It took only a few months of that for the state legislature to draft the Mulford Act, aimed at ending open carry in the state. After 24 Panthers showed up at the state Capitol armed to the teeth to protest the bill, …Read the Rest

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