I can't say that I agree with him
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thewayne"I believe Gun Appreciation Day honors the legacy of Dr. King. I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country's founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history."
—Gun Appreciation Day founder Larry Ward
Five people were injured by accidental discharges at Gun Appreciation Day events on Saturday bypeopleidiot gun owners (there are smart gun owners) who didn't know how to unload a gun before transporting it to a gun show.
I do totally agree with him on one thing: if slaves had been armed we wouldn't have had slavery as a chapter in our history. Jefferson and Washington would be dead and this country wouldn't be called the United States of America. I don't know what it would be called, but it wouldn't be the USA.
—Gun Appreciation Day founder Larry Ward
Five people were injured by accidental discharges at Gun Appreciation Day events on Saturday by
I do totally agree with him on one thing: if slaves had been armed we wouldn't have had slavery as a chapter in our history. Jefferson and Washington would be dead and this country wouldn't be called the United States of America. I don't know what it would be called, but it wouldn't be the USA.
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Date: 2013-01-23 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-24 01:01 am (UTC)And I guess once the States was a country, the drafters of the Bill of Rights couldn't have just handed them their freedom. You have to earn your freedom by shooting people.
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Date: 2013-01-24 04:08 pm (UTC)But we re-write our history all the time, and we never adequately study it. More's the shame. Some time I'd like to study up a bit on the history of debtor's prison and being judicially sentenced to indentured servitude.
There was definitely a labor shortage, actually a shortage of indentured servants, at the time of the Bill of Rights. I'm curious if that was the point where they were debating the 'blacks = 3/5ths of whites' nonsense.
I saw an item on TV last night about Congress approving a military award to a black man for exceptional service during World War 2 in Italy. And they're still trying to get proper recognition for the few remaining Tuskegee Airmen.