Reply #60: history deficient......... [View All]

[one-eyed fat man]

the ugly and embarrassing truth is that from about 1865 and good chunk of the next 100 years the KKK and the Democrats in the "Solid South" were about as closely allied as Sinn Fein and the IRA. A key element of the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws was gun control. Want to feel ashamed, look at just a few of the big name Democrats historically linked to gun control from long, long before Dianne Feinstein or Chuck Schumer.

Homer Cummings, attorney general during FDR's first term. The original verson of the NFA would have included all handguns.

Or "Big Tim" Sullivan and that most Democratic of New York institutions, Tammany Hall. Gun control so Irish gangsters would have less to worry about from Italian gangsters.

Or Justice Buford who said in a 1941 case in Florida, that law prohibiting concealed weapons "....was passed for the purpose of disarming the Negro laborers … The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied … .” Watson v. Stone, 148 Fla. 516, 524, 4 So. 2d 700, 703 (1941) (GMU CR LJ, p. 69)

Whine all you want about "gun-grabber Dems" being being right wing propaganda, it has been TRUE more often than not. Like a porn star gone straight, those old naked pictures are still out there on the Internet for everyone to find.