While everybody is used to hearing from the NRA and any number of various other conservative groups regarding the need to protect our Second Amendment, new and, what I might have thought to be rather unexpected, voices seem to have now immerged to also now enter into the argument. Several of those voices were heard at a Friday event billed as a Black History Month press conference. And one of those voices, in particular, was that of Ms. Star Parker. Ms. Parker made the statement that African Americans in Congress who support gun control efforts by Barry "Almighty" and his administration should consider the history of blacks in this country and of people around the globe who were oppressed, including being banned from owning firearms.
Ms. Parker is the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and was recently asked, "There are a lot of African Americans and people of color in Congress who are backing Obama’s plan for gun control. What would you say to them because today [at this event] it was revealed that there is a direct effect on the African American community with this gun control?" Her response was simple and very much to the point. She said, "Well, I'd say they need to revisit their history – black history, black slave history, black Jim Crow history -- and they should visit the histories of other tyrant nations where we had people like Hitler and Stalin and Mao." Although she is correct in her assessment, we all know the penchant those pushing gun control have for rewriting history.
She went on to say, "Every single time there is someone who wants to take away all other rights of the people, the first right they take away is your right to bear arms." Adding, "I believe that the Black community, or the Congressional Black Caucus is absolutely out of step with black America today on this issue." And how can you argue with that? You can’t! Whether you’re black, white, brown or red, Ms. Parker makes an excellent point, and one that bears repeating by many more within the various minority communities. To hear such comments coming from leaders of the NRA is one thing, but to hear them coming from the likes of Ms. Parker, I think, is something else entirely. And I think that her willingness, as well as the willingness of others, to make those comments adds much to the discussion.
Several speakers at the event in Washington, D.C., defended the Second Amendment and its guarantee that American citizens have the right to keep and bear firearms. They all emphasized the same point that the government should not infringe on that right, including Ken Blackwell, chairman of the board of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and a board member of the National Rifle Association. "That right to protect one’s life and liberty is a God-given right," Blackwell said in a statement. "It is a gift from God, not a grant from government." Frankly, I find it somewhat depressing that someone would actually have to point out such a thing, and it demonstrates just how far it is that we have managed to stray from what the Founders provided to us.
Ms. Parker said that her organization held the event to allow black leaders a forum from which they would be free "to express our deep concern of efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional right of self-defense." The gun control laws that banned or put restrictions on African Americans from owning firearms in the United States are documented on a timeline from 1640 to 1995 by the National Rifle Association’s Institute of Legislative Action and can be found here. Gun control dates back to laws before and after the Civil War that prohibited or restricted African Americans from owning firearms, a group of black leaders said Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. "History is [rife] with examples." Those advocating more gun laws pay little attention to history.
There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control," Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick Douglass Society, also said at the event. Swimp compared the call for universal background checks for gun purchase to the time when blacks were required to register with the government. "The first gun laws were put into place to register black folks, to make sure that they would know who we were – that we could not defend ourselves," Swimp said. "I think if you look right after the Emancipation Proclamation – what was going on down in the southern states, it’s very clear that the Dixiecrats wanted to disarm black people to keep us from defending ourselves against the Klansman, who were murdering white and black Republicans to control the ballot box," Swimp said. "There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control."
Ken "The Hutch" Hutcherson, former linebacker with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and pastor of the Antioch Bible Church was also in attendance and said in an interview, "gun control is about controlling people." He was asked, "From what was said today, it seems in fact that gun control hurts the African American community." He answered by saying, "It absolutely does, there’s no doubt about it." He went on to say, "It began that way with history. You see why there was so much gun control earlier in life – in American life – because it controlled African Americans." And in sounding the very common theme that we have heard from other defenders of the Second Amendment, he said, "Gun control is about controlling people." And that’s really the bottom line here.
He went on to question those within the black community regarding their willingness to trust, and their willingness to go along with their supposed leaders. He implied that that trust may be misplaced. What he said was, "We need to understand that those who need to be trained, who need to be armed is the African American community, and I don’t understand why any African American that is there in Congress right now would have the slightest thought about taking guns away from African Americans. We need them." I think most of us would agree that the Second Amendment should be considered as being our last line of defense again tyranny. And my friends, we never been as close to living in tyranny as we are at this particular point in time. Democrats sense that this is their time, they are determined to succeed. We must ALL gather together to defeat them.
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