Liberals have leapt on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida to
push for the repeal of “stand your ground” laws and to demand tighter gun
control. (MSNBC’S Karen Finney blamed “the same people who stymied gun
regulation at every point.”)
This would be like demanding more funding for the General Services
Administration after seeing how its employees blew taxpayer money on a party
weekend in Las Vegas.
We don’t know the facts yet, but let’s assume the conclusion MSNBC is leaping
to is accurate: George Zimmerman stalked a small black child and murdered him in
cold blood, just because he was black.
If that were true, every black person in America should get a gun and join
the National Rifle Association, America’s oldest and most august civil rights
organization.
Apparently this has occurred to no one because our excellent public education
system ensures that no American under the age of 60 has the slightest notion of
this country’s history.
Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of
the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed
with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan
to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance.
#Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the
Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the
Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every Democrat
is an ACLU’er, but every ACLU’er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan.#
In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was
passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks – even freemen – could not own
guns.
Chief Justice Roger Taney’s infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford
circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were
citizens, they would have the right to own guns: “[I]t would give them the full
liberty,” he said, “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”
With logic like that, Republicans eventually had to fight a Civil War to get
the Democrats to give up slavery.
Alas, they were Democrats, so they cheated.
After the war, Democratic legislatures enacted “Black Codes,” denying black
Americans the right of citizenship – such as the rather crucial one of bearing
arms – while other Democrats #sometimes the same Democrats# founded the Ku Klux
Klan.
For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported arming
blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats.
The original draft of the Anti-Klan Act of 1871 – passed at the urging of
Republican President Ulysses S. Grant – made it a federal felony to “deprive any
citizen of the United States of any arms or weapons he may have in his house or
possession for the defense of his person, family, or property.” This section was
deleted from the final bill only because it was deemed both beyond Congress’
authority and superfluous, inasmuch as the rights of citizenship included the
right to bear arms.
Under authority of the Anti-Klan Act, President Grant deployed the U.S.
military to destroy the Klan, and pretty nearly completed the job.
Anne Coulter is often described as a racist and a hater. She is certainly ot shy about presenting her opinions, but she also backs them up with facts that you seldom tget elsewhere. This is a lesson in history.
