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In reply to the discussion: We're told open carry is wrong because it's allegedly a form of passive intimidation [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)39. I'm defending the right of the people to protect themselves from neo-Nazi white supremacists.
The day the Klan messed with the wrong people.
You saw those cars coming, and you knew who those men were. They wanted you to see them. They wanted you to be afraid of them."
- Lillie McKoy, former mayor of Maxton talking about the KKK
By the mid-1950's the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and the KKK decided they had to fight back. Their campaign of terrorism swept through many of the southern states, but largely fell flat in North Carolina.
James W. "Catfish" Cole, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, decided he was going to change that. Cole was an ordained minister of the Wayside Baptist Church in Summerfield, North Carolina, who regularly preached the Word of God on the radio. His rallies often drew as many as 15,000 people. As Cole told the newspapers: "There's about 30,000 half-breeds up in Robeson County and we are going to have some cross burnings and scare them up."
Cole made a critical mistake that couldn't be avoided by a racist mind - he was completely ignorant of the people he was about to mess with.
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Dr. Perry was a black doctor in Monroe, NC, and helped finance a local chapter of the NAACP. One night at a meeting, the word was received that the Klan threatened to blow up Dr. Perry's house. The meeting broke up and everyone went home to get their guns.
Sipping coffee in Perry's garage with shotguns across their laps, the men agreed that defending their families was too important to do in haphazard fashion. "We started to really getting organized and setting up, digging foxholes and started getting up ammunition and training guys," Williams recalled. "In fact, we had started building our own rifle range, and we got our own M-1's and got our own Mausers and German semi-automatic rifles, and steel helmets. We had everything."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/01/17/826081/-The-day-the-Klan-messed-with-the-wrong-people?detail=email
You saw those cars coming, and you knew who those men were. They wanted you to see them. They wanted you to be afraid of them."
- Lillie McKoy, former mayor of Maxton talking about the KKK
By the mid-1950's the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and the KKK decided they had to fight back. Their campaign of terrorism swept through many of the southern states, but largely fell flat in North Carolina.
James W. "Catfish" Cole, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, decided he was going to change that. Cole was an ordained minister of the Wayside Baptist Church in Summerfield, North Carolina, who regularly preached the Word of God on the radio. His rallies often drew as many as 15,000 people. As Cole told the newspapers: "There's about 30,000 half-breeds up in Robeson County and we are going to have some cross burnings and scare them up."
Cole made a critical mistake that couldn't be avoided by a racist mind - he was completely ignorant of the people he was about to mess with.
.
Dr. Perry was a black doctor in Monroe, NC, and helped finance a local chapter of the NAACP. One night at a meeting, the word was received that the Klan threatened to blow up Dr. Perry's house. The meeting broke up and everyone went home to get their guns.
Sipping coffee in Perry's garage with shotguns across their laps, the men agreed that defending their families was too important to do in haphazard fashion. "We started to really getting organized and setting up, digging foxholes and started getting up ammunition and training guys," Williams recalled. "In fact, we had started building our own rifle range, and we got our own M-1's and got our own Mausers and German semi-automatic rifles, and steel helmets. We had everything."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/01/17/826081/-The-day-the-Klan-messed-with-the-wrong-people?detail=email
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We're told open carry is wrong because it's allegedly a form of passive intimidation [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2016
OP
Exactly! Nothing passive about this. It's an aggressive form of gun bullying.
stone space
Feb 2016
#17
That video is at least 3 years old, and what they were doing is perfectly legal in AZ,
GGJohn
Feb 2016
#29
One of them did engage in a bloody massacre of 4 people, including a 15 month old baby.
stone space
Feb 2016
#33
I'm not the one claiming that these neo-nazi white supremacists with their AR-15's are safe.
stone space
Feb 2016
#70
The people have a right to keep *and bear* arms. So, that means either open or concealed or both.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2016
#32
Are you defending the massacre by this ammosexual neo-nazi white supremacist?
stone space
Feb 2016
#34
I'm defending the right of the people to protect themselves from neo-Nazi white supremacists.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2016
#39
If the agenda is built on deception it is an agenda that should be resisted at every turn.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2016
#30
I'm not sure how you came to the idea I want to open carry. Nothing in the OP
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2016
#16
Open carry is wrong because it is impossible to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys.
LonePirate
Feb 2016
#47
I oppose concealed carry as well. I oppose gun possession regardless of how it is framed.
LonePirate
Feb 2016
#53
Guns serve no reasonable purpose in modern society. They are instruments of death and nothing more.
LonePirate
Feb 2016
#55
The Controllers want to force us to dine under armed threat against our will.
stone space
Feb 2016
#77
Well, your previous post was about visible weapons and a concealed weapon, by definition,
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2016
#81
You seem to have a lot of sexual hang-ups that you channel through gun control.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2016
#89