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The Black Panthers: a guaranteed cure for right-wing gun mania

Posted by Guest Blogger at 6:25 AM on April 27, 2007.


Roy Edroso: Bring 'em back!
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Editor's note: this is a guest post from Roy at Alicublog

Gosh, the Perfesser sure is laying it on thick with the gun posts, isn't he? Columbine in the New River Valley really put the zap on his head.

Clearly the poor man is suffering from Posse-Comitatus-itis, a disorder characterized by itchy trigger fingers. As long as the fit is on him, we will never hear the end of his plaintive cries for universal gun ownership -- by force if necessary.

Fortunately I know the cure:

panthers

Bring back the Black Panthers! In the 60s there was no more outspoken group of gun-rights enthusiasts. The Panthers marched in state capitols, bravely brandishing their firearms in defiance of those that would take away their Second Amendment rights.

No swifter cure for Posse-Comitatus-itis has been found! Soon open-carry laws were shutting down all over the place -- including California, where the sight of black folk with firearms worked so effectively on Governor Ronald Reagan's Posse-Comitatus-itis that he signed the Mulford Act.

Displays of armed negritude will work like lightning on the Perfesser's condition, and on the cracker community he serves.

Then we'll only have to think of ways to get him to shut up about everything else.


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Won't work although it is a funny idea.
Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Apr 27, 2007 8:04 AM   
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It won't work:
1) firstly the fear the of the "rioting negro attacking white women" is one of the reasons that, historically, white people have wanted guns to defend themselves.

2) history has proven that more guns in black communities simply result in more blacks getting shot (drug deals gone bad, turf wars, domestic shootings, robberies, accidents, and so forth.) Crime statistics prove that more crimes are committed intra-race than inter-racial despite the media's constant bombardment of "hate" crime attacks and "wilding" black youths attacking innocent white folks. Sure you might have a few motivated, and even trained, blacks who want/could take the "war to whitey" but more of the violence would simply grow in the black neighborhoods and would result in even more "law and order" white reprisals (yes, I know this is the goal of maoists but until the revolution the violence would damage many blacks themselves.)

3) the fear of crime, in general, not necessarily "black" crime, is another big reason people like to have guns (despite any evidence to the contrary- although the figures are mixed). This is because the Supreme Courts (and other courts) have determined that the police have no duty to protect an individual. (You can try this for yourself. Next time you are broken into, your car is stolen, or your abusive husband with a prior restraining order attacks you-- trying sueing the police for failure to protect.) Their duty, apparently, is only to "general" society but no duty to individually protect you or prevent individual crime.

One of the few times that unconstitutional laws were passed to "control" the "black menace" they almost always (and usually the first ones passed) were regarding the ability of blacks to own firearms. Since these are gone although one can see both the democrats (ban all guns) and republicans (ban "criminals" from having guns) still attempt to disarm the populace so that they can continue their looting of the public funds with no even far-fetched possibility of violent change.

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How about asking Al-Sadr?
Posted by: farhada on Apr 27, 2007 10:40 AM   
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I bet he can help with creating an excellent militia for you.

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Cute post but ...
Posted by: kelt65 on Apr 27, 2007 10:44 AM   
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The Black Panthers were once truly revolutionary, started by great people such as Huey Newton.

They've been infiltrated and taken over by Nation of Islam nutcases and it is now a counter revolutionary organization.

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EVEN MORE GUNS, HUH?
Posted by: Roverton on Apr 27, 2007 2:58 PM   
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Gee, how can the Great Race War begin if folks don't bring their guns?

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Better as a history lesson then as a prescription for today
Posted by: lessbread on Apr 28, 2007 12:36 AM   
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Did the NRA stand with the Black Panther's back in the 1960's? Not according to this 1999 interview with Willie Brown: Conservative Response in Sacramento

Morris: Did the National Rifle Association folks uphold the Panthers right to bear arms?

Brown: They went strangely silent on the question of whether or not the Panthers could walk into the capitol onto the floor or into the gallery area of the legislature with rifles or with other weapons. Even the [National] Rifle Association didn't evidence an objection to restrictions and limitations on that.


It would appear that this history puts a good chunk of gun rights rhetoric to rest.

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Gun control is inherently racist
Posted by: guntotingliberal on Apr 28, 2007 4:41 AM   
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Thank you for pointing out the inherently racist nature of gun control. Actually, the racist roots of gun control go back much further than the black panthers. Gun control started with Jim Crow laws, as a way to keep black people vulnerable and unable to resist violence from white people. How do you think so many lynchings were possible in the deep south? A forcibly disarmed population was unable to resist violence and oppression. And that's still the case today. The strictest gun control legislation is enforced in high crime areas with large minority populations, who have the least expectation of police protection from violence. So people who support gun restrictions now are continuing a legacy of racism and violence against minorities. Good job.

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