Remember when Black Panthers carried guns

[njhoneybadger]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/joshuamanson/gun-control-history-race-black-panther-party-conservatives

[Ray Bruns]

1. There was a good video of Reagan saying there was no reason for anyone

to be carrying a firearm in public.

[The Jungle 1]

2. It leads one to wonder.

What is the path to another Mulford act.
Is the only way this blood bath stops is when the rich are affected.
Would laws change if a rich private school was shot up? What if an exclusive country club was shot up?
Congress was shot at in 2017 but no laws changed so perhaps there is no path here.

[Samrob]

3. People who do not respect or value the lives of others usually don't give a shit about each other.

Only getting rid of the weapons and their use outside of homes will stop the carnage.

[njhoneybadger]

4. I wonder If billionaires and politicians were getting picked off if laws would change.

[SYFROYH]

5. I remember that they still do

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. The Black Panthers were really violent. Those were

violent times. They weren't the only violent group out there. Lots of bombs went off. It wasn't all firepower.

Angela Davis. Those were the strangest times.

[The Jungle 1]

7. As John Lennon sang it and it is still a relevant song.

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed
Strange days indeed

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. And then Patty Hurst got kidnapped and joined the

Revolution. There was the SLA and the Weather Underground.

I missed a lot of this because I was in Salt Lake City and there were maybe two black citizens and they kept a low profile.

It got really bad.