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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDamn gun humpers are in love with guns -- when they and their ilk are holding the loaded guns.
when somebody on the other side of the aisle is even carrying, they act like terrified kids.
Kaleva
(40,261 posts)The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus issued a statement in support.
Cirsium
(3,493 posts)It was never about guns.
The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons
Throughout the late 1960s, the militant Black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of Californias gun laws to underscore their political statements about the subjugation of African-Americans. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, The time has come for Black people to arm themselves.
The display so frightened politiciansincluding California governor Ronald Reaganthat it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.
https://www.history.com/articles/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
viva la
(4,528 posts)for taking weapons to a protest and shooting three people.