Pro gun documentary on KQED?

[chickenfried]

KQED is playing Negroes with Guns. Just started watching, it's about black people arming themselves ~ the time of the civil rights movement. So far seems in favor of self defense and pro gun.

[ldivinag]

so, what was the over "feeling" of the piece?

yey or ney?

[metalhead357]

Its really one of the few times you'll EVER see me say "Michal Moore" and "right" in the same sentence.

But Michael Moore did actually get that bit right in Bowling for Columbine when he states that gun control is really racism in disguise. Most gun control laws can trace thier origins to the fear(s) that recently freed Blacks (post civil war) would get ahold of guns. It truly snowballed from there. The fear has followed the times & the influx of recent immigrants in the big cities and then back to black-fears during the civil rights movement. Add in a touch of liberalism & media mass hysteria and well, you get what we got......

[chickenfried]

Interesting movie. It's actually a biography about Rob Williams. I agree more with his outlook than Martin Luther King's.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/negroeswithguns/

[Mesa Tactical]

Its really one of the few times you'll EVER see me say "Michal Moore" and "right" in the same sentence.

But Michael Moore did actually get that bit right in Bowling for Columbine when he states that gun control is really racism in disguise. Most gun control laws can trace thier origins to the fear(s) that recently freed Blacks (post civil war) would get ahold of guns. It truly snowballed from there. The fear has followed the times & the influx of recent immigrants in the big cities and then back to black-fears during the civil rights movement. Add in a touch of liberalism & media mass hysteria and well, you get what we got......

The bogeyman that probably most frightened people (and not necessarily liberals) into the 1968 GCA was the Black Panthers.

A fun website (that has been around for some time) on this subject:

http://www.blackmanwithagun.com/

[chickenfried]

The book Williams wrote, Negroes with Guns, is said to have been a major influence on Huey P. Newton.

[CalNRA]

THe gun legislation in the old days: making it illegal for blacks to own guns.

the gun control legislation in NYC that inspired much fo the concealed carrrying laws: against the Irish(needless to say the blacks were assumed to be guilty regardless of who they are).

The laws we live under today: no one without a connection should carry guns.

Now that's Incrementalism!!!!