Barbara Anderson: MLK knew what it was like live under government's yoke
Barbara Anderson
Long article, but here's a FEW excerpts of this finely written article
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Read more of this good article at : http://www.salemnews.com/opinion/x53079 ... ments-yoke" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;I always take time on Martin Luther King's birthday holiday to think about him and his revolution.
The Klan, an ugly combination of ignorance and evil, has its own history of killing blacks and civil rights workers. Imagine being in this position, unable to call the sheriff or state police for help.
They live in a world in which "it can't happen here," where the government can't be "the enemy," won't ever turn on its people. They don't understand why we "gun nuts" want the right to own automatic weapons, not just hunting rifles and a handgun for self-defense against common criminals.
Those of us who pay attention to history know that in other countries the citizens have often needed to be armed against the government, and we can imagine how it would feel to be surrounded by hostile government forces.
We recognize that it has happened here...
The organization Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership ...
According to JPFO, the updated 1968 Gun Control Act, which followed the racial riots of that year, was mostly copied from the Nazi gun control laws ...
As a Florida judge said in 1941, gun control was "never intended to apply to white people."