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spin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 11:29 PM
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4. Very interesting link, thanks...
From the link in the OP:

The history link below shares the knowledge I have found about gun control.

(1) It was founded on racist gun laws

(2) It always is supported by the elite (that have bodyguards or police to protect them).

(3) Is still used for political power.

(4) It is profitable.

(5) It has never saved a life.

(6) It does not prevent crime.

(7) There is no law that has not already been written (from the Ten Commandments to the present day) that has stopped mankind from war or murder.

http://www.blackmanwithagun.com/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=140019512&sec_id=140000845

The history link is very informative: http://www.blackmanwithagun.com/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=140019513&sec_id=140000845&nc=1216699355906

After reading the historical info, I feel that the gun control movement is indeed racist. For example:

After the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1878, most States turned to "facially neutral" business or transaction taxes on handgun purchases. However, the intention of these laws was not neutral. An article in Virginia 's official university law review called for a "prohibitive tax...on the privilege" of selling handguns as a way of disarming "the son of Ham," whose "cowardly practice of 'toting' guns has been one of the most fruitful sources of crime.... Let a negro board a railroad train with a quart of mean whiskey and a pistol in his grip and the chances are that there will be a murder, or at least a row, before he alights." Thus, many Southern States imposed high taxes or banned inexpensive guns so as to price blacks and poor whites out of the gun market.

I highly recommend both pro and anti-gun posters visit the site and comment.


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