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Showing Original Post only (View all)Here is what happened when black citizens tried to assert their Second Amendment rights [View all]
http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/actions/actions_capitolmarch.html<snip>Passage of the Mulford Bill would essentially end the Panther Police Patrols, so the BPP sent a group to Sacramento, California on May 2nd, 1967 to protest. The group carried loaded rifles and shotguns, publicly displayed and entered the State Capitol building to read aloud Executive Mandate Number 1, which was in opposition to the Mulford Bill. They tried to enter the Assembly Chamber but were forced out of this public place where they then read Executive Mandate Number 1 out on the lawn.
The legislature responded by passing the bill, thus creating the Mulford Act, which was signed into law by Governor Ronald Reagan. This step by the Black Panther Party was enough to put them into national prominence and was a stimulus for growth of the party within the young Black population.
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Here is what happened when black citizens tried to assert their Second Amendment rights [View all]
NNN0LHI
Jul 2012
OP
I bet. Had any black man ordered on line or in person any or all of the weaponry that Holmes
nanabugg
Jul 2012
#18
Had the purchasers name been Mohammad Holmes the retailer would have dropped a dime on him
NNN0LHI
Jul 2012
#22
They would have watched him and investigated what other purchases he had made or was making
NNN0LHI
Jul 2012
#26
When nothing came of it and the victim of the illegal profiling and searches found out
ProgressiveProfessor
Jul 2012
#27
Yes, many of the laws that restrict ownership and use of firearms have racist roots
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#2