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Larry Ward, chairman of the national Gun Appreciation Day gun rights advocates have planned for the weekend of President Obama's second inauguration, told CNN Friday that there never would have been slaves in America if black people had guns.
"I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country's founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history," Ward said.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gun-appreciation-day-leader-if-blacks-had-guns?ref=fpa
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Is that really the best they can come up with?
Bryant
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,282 posts)zzzzzzzzzzzzz
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)But this is really how crazy all the gun nuts are. They're all like this.
It's been very useful to scratch the surface of gun nuttery these last few weeks and see just how fucked up all the gun nuts really are. These are the fucking jerks who want to have a "reasonable conversation."
jody
(26,624 posts)Kolesar
(31,182 posts)LeftinOH
(5,342 posts)Except that the very presence of African Americans "from day one" was a violation of their rights. But, but.. What a dumbass.
Paladin
(28,202 posts)Don't you Gun Enthusiasts get tired of having spokesmen like this guy? He's a human skid mark.....
Erose999
(5,624 posts)ellisonz
(27,709 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)That doesn't make any sense at all. They were kidnapped and forced to be slaves. Does he think the kidnappers would have given them guns?
It's just crazy talk.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)modeled on Godwin's Law.
If you say "I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today...", you lose the argument.