http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-wink ... 10132.html

"As I found researching my new book, Gunfight, in 1956, after King’s house was bombed, King applied for a concealed carry permit in Alabama. The local police had discretion to determine who was a suitable person to carry firearms. King, a clergyman whose life was threatened daily, surely met the requirements of the law, but he was rejected nevertheless. At the time, the police used any wiggle room in the law to discriminate against African Americans."

Another civil rights movement to look into: Deacons for Defense and Justice

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacons_fo ... nd_Justice

Armed black guys who helped protect those nonviolent civil rights people.

Much of the gun control legislation in the 1960's came as a response to minority groups' realization that they could arm themselves for protection too.

Prior to Reagan in California, there weren't too many gun laws on the books in the Golden State. His fear of the Black Panthers changed that.

Caliman73 wrote:Much of the gun control legislation in the 1960's came as a response to minority groups' realization that they could arm themselves for protection too.

Prior to Reagan in California, there weren't too many gun laws on the books in the Golden State. His fear of the Black Panthers changed that.

Yup. Unfortunately, the role of armed resistance--almost all of it defensive--in the civil rights movement has been whitewashed in lieu of the pacifist narrative. I was watching a show not long ago where they interviewed two activists from the late 60s; one white, one black; who both said they'd carried rifles with them everywhere, including on their bus rides & at "safe" houses. That didn't stop the over-dubbed narration from repeating the gospel line about peaceful resistance being synonymous with unarmed resistance. These myths die hard.

Not because he wanted to, but because he had to:

FrontSight wrote:Not because he wanted to, but because he had to:

The Black Panthers took Malcolm X's approach to the extreme, openly carrying guns as they patrolled for police abuses on the streets of Oakland. They even made guns part of their official uniform, along with the black beret and leather jacket. Every member learned about Marxism and firearms safety.

Apparently not every member... Trigger discipline should towards the top of the list. Come on man, lead by example!

FrontSight wrote:Not because he wanted to, but because he had to:

That's a catchy phrase FS. Mind if I use it as a title for an upcoming post on my blog ( read by tens of people!) about guns and violence in the U.S.A.?

Damn, black guy with a sweet looking M1 Carbine and the 30 shot clip. Every Fox News viewers worst nightmare.

Antiquus wrote:Damn, black guy with a sweet looking M1 Carbine and the 30 shot clip. Every Fox News viewers worst nightmare.

Quite inspiring if you ask me. Put a woman with a .308, a Mexican with an AK and a white guy with AR in there and you'd have a GREAT poster for the Liberal Resistance

neotrotsky wrote:

Antiquus wrote:Damn, black guy with a sweet looking M1 Carbine and the 30 shot clip. Every Fox News viewers worst nightmare.

Quite inspiring if you ask me. Put a woman with a .308, a Mexican with an AK and a white guy with AR in there and you'd have a GREAT poster for the Liberal Resistance

Dibs on being the Mexican with the AK.

Zapp Brannigan wrote:

neotrotsky wrote:

Antiquus wrote:Damn, black guy with a sweet looking M1 Carbine and the 30 shot clip. Every Fox News viewers worst nightmare.

Quite inspiring if you ask me. Put a woman with a .308, a Mexican with an AK and a white guy with AR in there and you'd have a GREAT poster for the Liberal Resistance

Dibs on being the Mexican with the AK.

lol

Antiquus wrote:Damn, black guy with a sweet looking M1 Carbine and the 30 shot clip. Every Fox News viewers worst nightmare.

Look closer, thats two thirty round magazines lashed together.

I'd also like to add a gay couple, with shotguns.

mark wrote:
lol

I happen to be both Mexican and own an AK (WASR).

Hell I am listening to Los Tigres del Norte right now.

KVoimakas wrote:I'd also like to add a gay couple, with shotguns.

Better yet: One with a shotgun, the other with a Dillon press reloading to support his man on the front

Zapp Brannigan wrote:

mark wrote:
lol

I happen to be both Mexican and own an AK (WASR).

Hell I am listening to Los Tigres del Norte right now.

Oh, oh! I wanna be 'biker white boy with a 1911' or maybe w/ PSL.

Winkler's take on The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... guns/8608/

(I thought I saw this Atlantic article somewhere else on these forums, or was it at DU?)

Xela

Related posts:
http://www.theliberalgunclub.com/phpBB3 ... =12&t=9355
http://www.theliberalgunclub.com/phpBB3 ... f=1&t=9280

neotrotsky wrote:

Antiquus wrote:Damn, black guy with a sweet looking M1 Carbine and the 30 shot clip. Every Fox News viewers worst nightmare.

Quite inspiring if you ask me. Put a woman with a .308, a Mexican with an AK and a white guy with AR in there and you'd have a GREAT poster for the Liberal Resistance

...or Symbionese Liberation Army

Zapp Brannigan wrote:

neotrotsky wrote:

Antiquus wrote:Damn, black guy with a sweet looking M1 Carbine and the 30 shot clip. Every Fox News viewers worst nightmare.

Quite inspiring if you ask me. Put a woman with a .308, a Mexican with an AK and a white guy with AR in there and you'd have a GREAT poster for the Liberal Resistance

Dibs on being the Mexican with the AK.

You need a midwestern farm boy with his cowboy assault rifle (Win 94 & a red dot) & 357 in a shoulder rig too.

Antiquus wrote:Damn, black guy with a sweet looking M1 Carbine and the 30 shot clip. Every Fox News viewers worst nightmare.

Wow, what a racist and condescending comment.

The gun-totin black (and Latino) Fox viewers of my acquaintance here in Pugetopolis tell me they gain all sorts of respect for liberals/liberalism when they are stereotyped out of existence by comments like this.

The definitive (so far) book on the Deacons for Defense was published by UNC Press in 2006:

http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=850

I'd like to see a complementary history written by a black conservative scholar.

You know, for fairness and balance.

TamaPaine wrote:I'd like to see a complementary history written by a black conservative scholar.

No such thing as a conservative scholar.

Ill have to read that..

TamaPaine wrote:The definitive (so far) book on the Deacons for Defense was published by UNC Press in 2006:

http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=850

I'd like to see a complementary history written by a black conservative scholar.

You know, for fairness and balance.

It'd probably focus on how it was Democrats who were trying to keep the blacks down and suppress the civil rights movement, and how all the help they got, they got from Republicans.

Republicans love to pretend the Southern Strategy never happened, and all the old southern racist Democrats didn't transition right into the Republican Party.

AmirMortal wrote:

FrontSight wrote:Not because he wanted to, but because he had to:

The Black Panthers took Malcolm X's approach to the extreme, openly carrying guns as they patrolled for police abuses on the streets of Oakland. They even made guns part of their official uniform, along with the black beret and leather jacket. Every member learned about Marxism and firearms safety.

Apparently not every member... Trigger discipline should towards the top of the list. Come on man, lead by example!

I get what you are saying about the trigger discipline, but Malcolm X was not a Black Panther. He died in 1965 and the Black Panthers formed in 1966.