Americans with Guns

 Submitted by: Terry Payne

Americans with Guns

By Ann Coulter

Politicians are using recent shootings to infringe on the Second Amendment and private ownership of firearms. Gun grabbers are eager to confiscate people’s guns with “Red Flag” laws if someone else tags them as mentally ill or a danger to others. Some are calling for a redux of the failed 1994-2004 “Assault Weapons Ban.” Insanity is defined as repeating unsuccessful actions over-and-over again and expecting different results.

Gun control is always a scheme of the powerful to deprive the powerless of the right to self-defense.

Given the facts on gun violence epidemics in the major Democrat controlled cities, every black person in America should get a gun and join the National Rifle Association. The NRA is America's oldest and most august civil rights organization. Apparently, this has occurred to no one because our splendid public education system ensures that no American under the age of 60 has the slightest notion of this country's history.

Gun control laws were originally promoted by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democrat’s Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance.

Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democrat Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every Democrat is an ACLU'er, but every ACLU'er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan.

Chief Justice Roger Taney's infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: "[I]t would give them the full liberty," he said, "to keep and carry arms wherever they went."

Dealing with logic like that, Republicans eventually had to fight a Civil War to get the Democrats to give up slavery.

 

Alas, they were Democrats, so they couldn’t learn. After the war, Democrat legislatures enacted "Black Codes," denying black Americans the rights of citizenship, such as the crucial one of bearing arms, while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan.

 

President Grant deployed the U.S. military to destroy the Klan, and almost completed the job.

 

But the Klan had a few resurgences in the early and mid-20th century. Curiously, wherever the Klan became a political force, gun control laws would suddenly appear on the books.

 

Following the firebombing of his house in 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, who was a Christian minister, applied for a gun permit, but the Alabama authorities found him unsuitable. A decade later, he won a Nobel Peace Prize. How's that "may issue" gun permit policy working for you?

 

The NRA opposed these discretionary gun permit laws and proceeded to grant NRA charters to blacks who sought to defend themselves from Klan violence, including the great civil rights hero Robert F. Williams.

 

A World War II Marine veteran, Williams returned home to Monroe, N.C., to find the Klan riding high, beating, lynching and murdering blacks at will. No one would join the NAACP for fear of Klan reprisals. Williams became president of the local chapter and increased membership from six to more than 200.

 

But it was not until he got a charter from the NRA in 1957 and founded the Black Armed Guard that the Klan got their comeuppance in Monroe.

 

Williams' repeated thwarting of violent Klan attacks is described in his stirring 1962 book, "Negroes with Guns." In one crucial battle, the Klan sieged the home of a black physician and his wife, but Williams and his Black Armed Guard stood sentry and repelled the larger, cowardly force. And that was the end of it.

 

As the Klan found out, it's not so much fun when the rabbit's got the gun.

 

The NRA's proud history of fighting the Klan has been airbrushed out of the record by those who were complicit with the KKK, which is to say, the Democrats.

 

In the preface to the book "Negroes with Guns," Williams writes: "I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence."