Day of Resistance – Gun owners are staging a protest rally at the Capitol tomorrow
Location – State Capital Bldg. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Sacramento, CA94206
See map: Google Maps
Sacramento, CA Day of Resistance Rally – protest is nation-wide.
Hear, hear….
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=afe_1359927863
The Washington Times reported that Senator Feinstein was apparently “unhappy with the list of witnesses” who testified at the last hearing and “says she plans to hold a separate hearing with witnesses more inclined to back gun control.”
Really!, I guess she didn’t get the biased response she was hoping for. The old adage of “never let a tragedy go to waste” has never been more evident than with her Liberal agenda of reducing our rights.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/22/black-conservatives-gun-control-has-racist-roots-video/
Very interesting comments, they understand what freedom is and how to protect it. As well as what is being done politically to reduce everyones rights
Can you tell me which specific gun control proposals from the president you oppose?
Harold, good Lord are the people in that article misinformed. They are right about the history of gun control laws being used to suppress blacks, but they are wrong about which side of that battle the NRA was on.
Harry Alford, the president of the Black Chamber of Commerce, claims that “The National Rifle Association was started, founded by religious leaders who wanted to protect free slaves from the Ku Klux Klan.”
There is zero evidence to support this claim, which seems to originate from fake historian David Barton:
http://wthrockmorton.com/2013/01/was-the-national-rifle-association-started-to-drive-out-the-kkk/
In fact, during the Civil Rights era, the NRA actually *supported* gun control legislation designed to take guns out of the hands of black radicals such as the Black Panthers:
“The organization actively lobbied in favor of the Gun Control Act of 1968, which banned gun sales by mail, and enacted a system of licensing those people and companies who bought and sold firearms. Franklin Orth, then the executive vice president of the NRA, said that although certain aspects of the law “appear unduly restrictive and unjustified in their application to law-abiding citizens, the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with.”
During that time, the NRA and conservative politicians such as California Governor Ronald Reagan supported gun control as a means of restoring social order, and getting weapons out of the hands of radical, left-leaning and revolutionary groups, particularly the Black Panther Party.
Responding to the perceived failures of the nonviolent civil rights movement, the Black Panthers took a more militant and uncompromising approach of the fallen leader Malcolm X. Led by figures including Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the Panthers’ “by any means necessary” approach included a most aggressive gun ownership policy to protect their communities from police abuse.
Beginning in 1966, the Panthers carried out police patrols, in which they rushed to the scene of an arrest with their loaded weapons publicly displayed, and notified those being arrested of their constitutional rights. California state legislator Don Mulford introduced a bill to repeal the state law allowing citizens to carry loaded guns in public if they were openly displayed. Mulford had the Panthers in mind with this legislation.
On May 2, 1967, a group of Black Panthers protested the bill by walking into the California State Capitol Building fully armed. In response, the legislature passed the Mulford Act. And Gov. Reagan, who was a major proponent of disarming the Panthers, signed the bill into law, effectively neutralizing the Panther Police Patrols.”
http://thegrio.com/2013/01/11/nra-was-pro-gun-control-when-it-came-to-black-panthers/2/
More:
“Republicans in California eagerly supported increased gun control. Governor Reagan told reporters that afternoon that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” He called guns a “ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will.” In a later press conference, Reagan said he didn’t “know of any sportsman who leaves his home with a gun to go out into the field to hunt or for target shooting who carries that gun loaded.” The Mulford Act, he said, “would work no hardship on the honest citizen.”
The fear inspired by black people with guns also led the United States Congress to consider new gun restrictions, after the summer of 1967 brought what the historian Harvard Sitkoff called the “most intense and destructive wave of racial violence the nation had ever witnessed.” Devastating riots engulfed Detroit and Newark. Police and National Guardsmen who tried to help restore order were greeted with sniper fire.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/