Gun Control & RKBA
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(5,046 posts)SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/14/watch-gun-appreciation-day-organizer-insists-hes-honoring-mlks-legacy-sharpton-responds/
Glaug-Eldare
(1,089 posts)whose decision should that have been? Rev. King's, or some LEO who didn't like the color of his skin? Was it right that King was denied the opportunity to choose?
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)Is it the color of his skin?
Glaug-Eldare
(1,089 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)For many Americans, the image of Connors German shepherd dogs biting at the limbs of peaceful protestors became a symbol of the viciousness and ugliness of the southern way of life. Polls showed an outpouring of support for King; letters and telegrams poured into the White House expressing support for the goals of the movement It took the assassination of John F. Kennedy, brutal assaults against nonviolent protesters in Birmingham, Selma, and elsewhere, and a massive lobbying effort to gain passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
Journalist/author Charles Lane, reflecting back on the Colfax Massacre, wrote, The revolutionary new ingredient was nonviolence. The dignified resistance of Martin Luther King, Jr.s legions succeeded where William Ward and P.B.S. Pinchback had failed.
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/09/debunking-the-gun-control-is-racist-smear/
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)The Deacons were real and protected King and others during the worst of things.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)If you think requiring permits, that might be denied because a person is black, or making it so only the rich can have guns, then I fail to see how that is a better system.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)cans of beans.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)That's my favorite so far.
Though beans can be unpleasant.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Glaug-Eldare
(1,089 posts)Not too keen on that outfit, but they've got a really great collection of antiques and historical arms at their museum there.
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Seems like such a waste. A lot of folks sympathetic to Occupy Austin owned guns.
We once had leaders who fought for civil rights, voting rights, job training, a better environment, better schools, labor rights, and non-violent foreign affairs.
Now all I get is this stinking gun-control t-shirt.