Quote of the Day: Roots of Gun Control Edition

By Dan Zimmerman

“Black men with rifles marched into the state capitol building in Sacramento. In response to that, a bill was passed which became California’s first gun control law and eventually became the model for a national gun control law. So the (Black) Panthers were really the first gun rights movement. And the response to them — which was, by the way, a Republican response, authored by a Republican Congressman and Ronald Regan who was governor at the time — was the first gun control anti movement.” – Historian Thadeus Russel in Black …read more