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February 07, 2007
CJ celebrates Black History Month
The knee-jerk liberal response to violence in urban black communities is to blame inanimate instrumentalities instead of examining the potential societal, cultural, and economic factors. What is ironic is that minority groups that were historically victimized by government controls on guns now cry the loudest for gun control laws, including total prohibition. For example, liberal Jews in America have apparently forgotten, or choose to ignore, how the Nazis disarmed Jews before persecuting them.
The same shortsighted focus on gun availability and possession afflicts most African American political leaders. Ken Blackwell reminds us today that gun control has also been used as a tool for black control:
...restrictive gun laws have long been employed to the benefit of a select elite while circumscribing the liberty of populations less popular or less powerful.
Gun control measures, from the slave gun bans of the 1700s South to the Brady Bill regulations of the 1990s have unfairly targeted black Americans and have worked to curtail a disproportionate number of their constitutional rights. Access to firearms was understood by our founders and many early American jurists as an essential aspect of full US citizenship, and it was for this reason that the Black Codes established after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment -- which constitutionally abolished slavery -- prevented black freemen from owning guns.
In prohibiting blacks from exercising the freedoms granted other Americans in the Second Amendment, the Black Codes emphasized the notion that African-Americans were not true citizens with full human rights.
Such lessons from the past are lost on the demagogues on the left--both black and white. And sadly, the public in areas afflicted by urban violence tend not to realize that gun control is, at its core, not about guns, but about control.
Posted by GadsdenFlag at February 7, 2007 09:38 AM
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