4 responses to “The NRA and Gun Control”

1. 

   Bill Tozer

   18 March 2016

   Oh my Dr. Rebane, you opened a can of worms this time.
   https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/pb.217926015008110.-2207520000.1458316559./760488910751815/?type=3&theater

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   George Rebane

   18 March 2016

   BillT 901am – Don’t know Mr Tozer, it’s hard to say anything about guns after prominent black folks have gone public not only with their support of the NRA, but also reminding us the role guns served in the rise of black communities in the Jim Crow south.

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   Bill Toze

   18 March 2016

   Ah yes. There are indeed cultural ties that bind us.
   https://m.facebook.com/opposingviews/photos/a.92094656050.96503.34226391050/10153267379901051/?type=3&source=48&__tn__=E

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4. 

   Gregory

   19 March 2016

   This one bears repeating:

   In her book “A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me,” former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice writes about guns and her minister father. In 1963, four little girls were killed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama, black church. “After the first explosion,’ writes Rice, “Daddy just went outside and sat on the porch with his gun on his lap. He sat there all night looking for white night riders.
   “Eventually Daddy and the men of the neighborhood formed a watch. They would take shifts at the head of the entrances to our streets. Occasionally they would fire a gun into the air to scare off intruders, but they never actually shot anyone.
   “Because of this experience, I’m a fierce defender of the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. Had my father and his neighbors registered their weapons, Bull Connor surely would have confiscated them or worse. The Constitution speaks of the right to a well-regulated militia. The inspiration for this was the Founding Fathers’ fear of the government.
   They insisted that citizens have the right, if necessary, to resist the authorities themselves. What better example of responsible gun ownership is there than what the men of my neighborhood did in response to the KKK and Bull Connor?”

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