Smith pointed out that other prominent gun rights groups, like the NRA, did not. Are you in agreement with that? I couldn't be silent. Tears came outta my eyes, when I heard this brother got shot," Smith said.
Speak out, when you see injustice. Don't sit there silently, like you don't know what's happening. NAAGA is talking about endorsing candidates, which could make them a political force. But the group isn't yet ready, and plans to discuss the issue at their first national conference next year. Inside America's largest black gun group.
Everything he had was just put at our disposal. He was his own man in his own mold. Martin Luther King applied for a gun permit in , after having his house bombed. Things did eventually turn more than a bit ugly. This event, however, was hardly isolated from the uglier turn of leftist activism at the time, which included not just armed self-defense or careful monitoring of police officers, but also bombings and kidnappings as the business of the day. Politics in general were getting hot and heavy on the streets, with flower power and patient nonviolence giving way to The Weathermen and their ilk.
No one is going to shoot anyone for being part of a black rights organization in the current year. Still, two things stand out when surveying the less non-violent aspects of the American Civil Rights Movement:. First, the narrative of the NRA as some sort of crypto-racist organization is simply false. More to the point, the NRA has historically opposed laws that were virtually tailor made to deny African-Americans the right to keep and bear arms.
Many gun control laws to this day stem from the KKK's fear of armed and independent minorities. The Rosewood Massacre in — a bloodbath led by a white mob that resulted in the destruction of an entire black community in Florida — was a clear example of how an armed black people could prevent future KKK raids. The right to keep and carry arms was even mentioned in the infamous Supreme Court case of Scott v.
Sandford, where the enslaved Dred Scott sued for his freedom. He lost that fight, but the words from that courtroom live on to this day. It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union And all of this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, and inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State.
The point is that people who are in danger, or at least feel that they are, will often reach out to firearms to protect themselves — especially if state actors seem reluctant or incapable of enforcing the law and protecting them and their families. In the case of Monroe, North Carolina, all it took was returning fire against one attack. Table of Contents. Robert F. America is changing faster than ever!
Add Changing America to your Facebook or Twitter feed to stay on top of the news. Paul, Minn. The organization, which has been in business since , has 75 chapters nationwide.
0コメント