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dr_feelgood
Apr 29, 2012, 4:56 PM
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pinktricam wrote: I like this one: AnInterestingBlog wrote: Gun control laws were originally promulgated 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 Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance. (Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic 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.) In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks — even freemen — could not own guns.
This isn't a conspiracy theory. I'd venture to say that the majority of americans forget that the democratic party used to be the party of the southern slaveholder, and that the term 'radical republican' was often synonymous with abolitionist and northerner.
The black codes of the post civil war reconstruction were explicit in preventing freed blacks from owning firearms and served as a means of ensuring their continued coerced labor, often at the hands of their former master. The KKK was the terrorist organization formed during the civil war to ensure the post-war complacency of the black population via the tactics of terrorism.
The real issue with your post is in here:
pinktricam wrote: The blogger continues in this vein... Thisvein wrote: 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: “It would give them the full liberty,” he said, “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.” 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 cheated.After the war, Democratic legislatures enacted “Black Codes,” denying black Americans the right of citizenship — such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms — while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan. For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported arming blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats.
The very ideas of the party system shifted with FDR's administration and the great depression, and then finally during the civil rights crusades of the 1960s. Strom Thurmond, infamous racist and senator, shifted from the Democratic party to the Republican party in 1964 (with a brief presidential run on a state's rights ticket). I'm quite positive that thurmond was explicitly against the extension of any civil rights to the black population, especially the right to bear arms.
Your post is a perversion of the history of US race relations in the united states, especially regarding gun control and gun rights. The Republican party of today bears no resemblance to the party of Lincoln.
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(This post was edited by dr_feelgood on Apr 29, 2012, 4:58 PM)
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