Trayvon and a history of gun rights
Trayvon and a history of gun rights
by Ann Coulter 
Liberals have leapt on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida to push for the repeal of "stand your ground" laws and to demand tighter gun control. (MSNBC'S Karen Finney blamed "the same people who stymied gun regulation at every point.")
This would be like demanding more funding for the General Services Administration after seeing how its employees blew taxpayer money on a party weekend in Las Vegas.
We don't know the facts yet, but let's assume the conclusion MSNBC is leaping to is accurate: George Zimmerman stalked a small black child and murdered him in cold blood, just because he was black.
If that were true, every black person in America should get a gun and join the National Rifle Association, America's oldest and most august civil rights organization.
Apparently this has occurred to no one because our excellent public education system ensures that no American under the age of 60 has the slightest notion of this country's history.
Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance.
(Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every Democrat is an ACLU'er, but every ACLU'er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan.)
In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks -- even freemen -- could not own guns.
Chief Justice Roger Taney's infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: "[I]t would give them the full liberty," he said, "to keep and carry arms wherever they went."
With logic like that, Republicans eventually had to fight a Civil War to get the Democrats to give up slavery. Alas, they were Democrats, so they cheated.
After the war, Democratic legislatures enacted "Black Codes," denying black Americans the right of citizenship -- such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms -- while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan.
For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported arming blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats.
The original draft of the Anti-Klan Act of 1871 -- passed at the urging of Republican president Ulysses S. Grant -- made it a federal felony to "deprive any citizen of the United States of any arms or weapons he may have in his house or possession for the defense of his person, family, or property." This section was deleted from the final bill only because it was deemed both beyond Congress' authority and superfluous, inasmuch as the rights of citizenship included the right to bear arms.
Under authority of the Anti-Klan Act, President Grant deployed the U.S. military to destroy the Klan, and pretty nearly completed the job.
But the Klan had a few resurgences in the early and mid-20th century. Curiously, wherever the Klan became a political force, gun control laws would suddenly appear on the books.
This will give you an idea of how gun control laws worked. Following the firebombing of his house in 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, who was, among other things, a Christian minister, applied for a gun permit, but the Alabama authorities found him unsuitable. A decade later, he won a Nobel Peace Prize.
How's that "may issue" gun permit policy working for you?
The NRA opposed these discretionary gun permit laws and proceeded to grant NRA charters to blacks who sought to defend themselves from Klan violence -- including the great civil rights hero Robert F. Williams. 
A World War II Marine veteran, Williams returned home to Monroe, N.C., to find the Klan riding high -- beating, lynching and murdering blacks at will. No one would join the NAACP for fear of Klan reprisals. Williams became president of the local chapter and increased membership from six to more than 200.
But it was not until he got a charter from the NRA in 1957 and founded the Black Armed Guard that the Klan got their comeuppance in Monroe.
Williams' repeated thwarting of violent Klan attacks is described in his stirring book, "Negroes With Guns." In one crucial battle, the Klan sieged the home of a black physician and his wife, but Williams and his Black Armed Guard stood sentry and repelled the larger, cowardly force. And that was the end of it.
As the Klan found out, it's not so much fun when the rabbit's got the gun.
The NRA's proud history of fighting the Klan has been airbrushed out of the record by those who were complicit with the KKK, Jim Crow and racial terror, to wit: the Democrats.
In the preface to "Negroes With Guns," Williams writes: "I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense -- and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence."
Contrary to MSNBC hosts, I do not believe the shooting in Florida is evidence of a resurgent KKK. But wherever the truth lies in that case, gun control is always a scheme of the powerful to deprive the powerless of the right to self-defense.
Rev. Ajabu
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Bunneh:
There you go; picking on GBLT folks.
You are a hypocrite.
Hey. I am building a prototype weapon that shoots skittles. Supetsoaker already has one that squirts tea. Before you pull the trigger you have to shout, "Taste the rainbow".
You are such a predictable little meat puppet Jabby. I wear your disdain like a mink coat. It's so warm and cozy.
Oh Bunneh. If the Reverand posts as me, it is a pretty neat trick he uses to get an ip address from Comcast out of Georgia, c-98-251-49-202.hsd1.ga.comcast.net/98.251.49.202. Click my name "Chuck" on my post to see. Hehe..naw, rather another brother that has seen you attempt to hijack the blog conversation and launch personal attacks against brother Ajabu. An Internet troll, as they say. You have been personally hurt in some form somewhere along the way and I as well will pray for you. Keep the lessons coming Reverand. Listen and learn. You do not have to agree, but be civilized or be ignored.
Well, maybe you can teach Ajabu how to check ip addresses. Since he seems to think Dawn and I are the same person. The fact that you attempt to defend Ajabu is conclusive proof that you have your head up your keester and don't know him at all. I suppose you support his violence against women and the legacy of hatred he instilled in his murderous thug son, Kofi!! Ajabu teaches a doctorine of hate and he bastardizes scripture. He also encourages animosity and distrust between races. Since when is that behavior acceptable from a man of God. He also bullies women, like he did at the Trayvon march. He also exploits children. Even his own granddaughter. Brandon Johnson, Trayvon Martin and his own little grandbaby. He constantly uses images from waaaaaay in the past to instill shock in his readers. Or pictures of starving babies in Africa ( he exploits them as well), what he is too stupid to realize, is 7th district congressional voters, care about what happens in the 7 th district. Not in what is happening on the other side of the world. Is it sad? Yes. Should they care? Absolutely. Yet, they are more concerned with taves. Education and protective services. You would be better off explaining that to Ajabu than try to change what I know to be factual about him. He is an ancient, bitter, hate filled race baiter and he will NEVER be elected to Congress. Ho should give any campaign money to feed the children. At least then, it won't go to waste.
Chuck,
Dawn/Bunneh is just a right winger masquerading as a Christian who wants us to buy into slave Christianity. Don't do it. My lesson have gone as far as the white house. I taught President Obama an economic lesson. It is trickle up that dreives the economy, not trickle down. Right after this lesson he inacted the cash for clunkers program. Look at the car industry today. We are going to win this race. Don't worry about the Dawn/Bunneh's. She is in the minority. We are going forward. Victory is at hand. Check out the lesson to the President. http://www.facebook.com/bookmarks/pages#!/photo.php?v=10150821121342542 You and yours do be blessed.
So Jabby, whites, women and gays are not enough? You also want to attack Christianity? You know who enslaves your people? You do Ajabu. Every time you accept welfare, you are being bought. When your kids drop out of school or sell drugs or commit a crime, you are giving away your freedoms. That is why I find you so funny. You are so deeply innured in your own slavery and you don't even realise it. You are too dumb to understand how the Government and your own behaviors keep you imprisoned in cyclical bondage. I have tried many times to impart some knowledge about this to you but you keep implying that I have a race problem. Even though you are the one with the hate blog and the spiteful Twitter feed. You are the person who belongs to a hate group. Ajabu, you need to teach people to work for what they want. Teach the importance of an education and personal responsibility. Instead, you spew a litany of bile towards others. It is common knowledge that you have an inability to take.responsibility for yourself and your actions. Also, you are unable to apologize for your bad acts. You are not much of a man if you can't do that. You are your own worst enemy.
I don't post to reach you Ajabu. I post so others can see you for who you truly are and hopefully I reach some people. When people read what you and I post, they get all the information they need to make an informed decision about the type of person they want to be. Sometimes I am a bit aggressive when I post. It is only because I am passionate about making people aware of how you are really a phony. You pretend to be a man of God and subversively attempt to indoctrinate people into your hate filled world, while posing as someone who is good. Just like the devil did when he came to Eve in the form of a snake in the garden of Eden. People are a lot smarter than you give them credit for. Most people see right thru your charade. Only the very naieve and the very dumb buy the snakeoil you are selling. How can you be so oblivious to what goes on around you?
Dawn/Bunneh,
Who are you talking about?? Have you forgotten to take your meds? Where are you getting your information. Lord, I am going to continue to pray for you!! You have lost it!! I pray for your comfort.
Once again, your ignorance has made my point, far better than I ever could. Thank-you
Dawn/Bunneh
Now you want people to see your ignorance as making a valid point. You have lost it!! I am praying for you. God please answer my prayer. Help that girl gets some help!! She is suffering from something that is really mentally unhealthy. Help her Father!! Amen.