With the horrific shooting that just keeps taking the lives of children and innocent by-standers….I got thinking about history (go figure) and the GOP.
I remember because I am an old fart when the GOP and the NRA embraced the concept of gun control (for lack of a better word)……the time was the late 1960s……
OMG! Blacks with guns!
In the wake of two high-profile mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, the gun control debate in America continues. Mass shootings in the U.S. occur at an alarming rate. In the first 22 weeks of 2022, there were around 246 mass shootings in America. Even with outrageous numbers like that, gun control is still a divisive point of discussion in American society. But this discordance around guns is nothing new — gun restriction debates have always been part of America’s history.
The Second Amendment in the U.S. Constitution gives Americans the right to bear arms, stating: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” And while the amendment is arguably ambiguous, one organization has explicitly honed in on the “right of the people to keep and bear Arms” clause. Within the last few decades, the National Rifle Association has been an adamant force for gun rights — insistent that the right to bear arms trumps any attempts at regulation.
Days following the tragic killings at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre vowed that the NRA would continue to fight to expand gun rights — “and not just in the face of tragic, horrible events when politicians and demagogues try to scapegoat us … but every day — for weeks, for months, for decades.”
No matter the circumstances, one might assume that the NRA has always been a stark gun rights advocate that is positioned against gun control. But you may be surprised to learn that there was actually a time in American history when the NRA was in support of strict gun control regulations.
In the late 1960s, the Black revolutionary organization the Black Panther Party was beginning to spread its message of Black empowerment across the U.S. Among various causes it supported, the BPP was determined to combat the rising number of police attacks against Black people by arming themselves with rifles. Using their Second Amendment rights, members of the BPP would often openly carry their rifles in the streets. But in a social and political system that was heavily based on racism and fearmongering, this made many white Americans uneasy, including the NRA. In an attempt to disarm Black Americans, the NRA took a racially motivated approach to gun control.
There be your history lesson.
Funny how things change….now ain’t it?
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Everybody needs a gun, everybody needs food and a house or a roof over their heads, everybody needs water, everybody needs a warm place to deposit defecate … everybody needs money in their pockets and some relief for their libidinal urges …If everybody had all that there would be no violence on the streets …right? Wrong! If everybody had all that then somebody else would be trying to take somebody else’s share of the good things and the violence would remain. OMG I have just described the right wing trying to rob the common man.
The GOP in the 60s was worried about Blacks with guns….and then the NRA stepped up and it began. chuq
I can remember the outrage when the Black Panthers paraded with legally-owned guns. Perhaps if more black people started doing that again, we might see more concern.
Best wishes, Pete.
With the hate now a days I would worry chuq
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Very interesting. By fear to be shot themselves many people were willing to discuss the importance of th Second Amendmend. Hope will never die, Chuq! xx Michael
Me as well Michael. chuq
I already knew about this. But goddess darn it, that conservatives squeal every five minutes how, they’re not racist is even more funny thinking about this.
When they light that cross, their gonna say, “its a friendship ‘t’…”
Conservs have always been hypocrites….well since about 1980…..chuq