The secret history of guns

[ChrisHansen]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=the+secret+history+of+guns&l=1

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+don't+you+take+a+seat+over+there

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ephebophile

 

[Captain Fuzzybritches]

Nobody said the founding fathers were perfect. I don't see how these facts justify the types of gun control which are common today in the U.S.

Plus the article completely misses the reason for an armed citizenry - to defend against government tyranny.

Entertaining and disingenuous.

my reading is different. read this:

In February of 1967, Oakland police officers stopped a car carrying Newton, Seale, and several other Panthers with rifles and handguns. When one officer asked to see one of the guns, Newton refused. “I don’t have to give you anything but my identification, name, and address,” he insisted. This, too, he had learned in law school.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?” an officer responded.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?,” Newton replied indignantly. He told the officer that he and his friends had a legal right to have their firearms.

Newton got out of the car, still holding his rifle.

“What are you going to do with that gun?” asked one of the stunned policemen.

“What are you going to do with your gun?,” Newton replied.

By this time, the scene had drawn a crowd of onlookers. An officer told the bystanders to move on, but Newton shouted at them to stay. California law, he yelled, gave civilians a right to observe a police officer making an arrest, so long as they didn’t interfere. Newton played it up for the crowd. In a loud voice, he told the police officers, “If you try to shoot at me or if you try to take this gun, I’m going to shoot back at you, swine.” Although normally a black man with Newton’s attitude would quickly find himself handcuffed in the back of a police car, enough people had gathered on the street to discourage the officers from doing anything rash. Because they hadn’t committed any crime, the Panthers were allowed to go on their way.

The people who’d witnessed the scene were dumbstruck. Not even Bobby Seale could believe it. Right then, he said, he knew that Newton was the “baddest mother****er in the world.” Newton’s message was clear: “The gun is where it’s at and about and in.” After the February incident, the Panthers began a regular practice of policing the police. Thanks to an army of new recruits inspired to join up when they heard about Newton’s bravado, groups of armed Panthers would drive around following police cars. When the police stopped a black person, the Panthers would stand off to the side and shout out legal advice.

this is exactly what the 2nd amendment is for. the article is just pointing out the irony that the current champions of the 2nd amendment, the conservatives, are fighting legislation and attitudes of conservatives 50 years ago who were afraid of black people.

 

[Zombie]

not a secret if you know

 

[Captain Fuzzybritches]

Wake up sheeple

 

[okie98]

Better left buried.