Reply #128: You might want to read a little history

[one-eyed fat man]

Homer Cummings was Attorney General from 1933 to 1939. He wrote the first Federal gun laws and pushed for handgun registration continually while in office.

He was also the head of the DNC in the Twenties. During the 1924 Democratic convention, in the fight between the Ku Klux Klan & the "drys" vs. Tammany Hall & the "wets," he backed William Gibbs McAdoo who had the support of the Klan delegates. The Democratic Party convention that year ended with a giant celebration and cross-burning. The 1924 Democratic National Convention was still notorious a generation later, when John F. Kennedy referred to it during his 1960 campaign.


Klanbake Convention

Gun control and the KKK have gone together since the beginning. That was the reason for the Civil Rights Act of 1866. For a 100 years the Klan was to the Democratic Party what the IRA was to Sinn Fein. It finally started to unravel with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.