Black Panthers Support Gun Rights

The Black Panthers had more to do with expanding gun rights than the NRA.

This really should not be surprising if one takes the time to think about it. One of the biggest arguments for gun rights is that the citizens need firearms to protect themselves from tyrannical government. What could be more tyrannical than the systematic segregation of an entire race from the rest of the nation through legislation and brutal police action. Either through laissez-faire attitudes or direct racist actions, far too many governments throughout the United States supported or engaged in tyrannical oppression of black people.

The biggest proponent of firearm usage was Malcolm X. He strongly believed that only through being well armed could the black population be respected. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while a proponents of nonviolent action, was reported to have a near arsenal in his home. Many of his supporters provided Dr. King with around-the-clock armed security. It would seem Dr. King, while a man of principle, it also gave realist. Sources indicate that Dr. King applied for a firearms license in 1958 after his house was vandalized.  Any person that supports liberty and freedom should see this as a good thing; citizens using the right to keep and bear arms to restrict and oppose tyrannical government.

In a twist of irony, it was the Black Panthers and their use of firearms that pressured then Gov. Reagan to seek gun control. When the Black Panthers, armed to the teeth, entered into the California governmental building in protest, "fear" caused the legislature to pass more restrictive gun control legislation. Gov. Reagan was quoted as saying, "(there is) no reason why on the street today citizens should be carrying loaded weapons." When defending his obvious restriction on gun rights he said, "(it) would work no hardship on the honest citizen."  And yet President Reagan is touted quite often as the conservatives' Messiah. History can be a bitch, huh?

Gun control prior to the 1990s has always had a racist to the earliest forms of gun control after the Civil War were aimed at disarming black people. The Ku Klux Klan found it inconvenient when the blacks shot back. As such they sought to curtail the ability of black defend themselves burying the Ku Klux Klan from injury and allowing them to continue their evil unabated. Is this not the reason why we currently hold the gun rights in such high regard? To prevent such atrocities when the government will do nothing but similar

Throughout American history we see time and time again were the rights of the minority repressed by the majority. The outcome is always similar. The minority suffers at the hands of the majority. Yet, we continue to debate whether or not certain people we disagree with or dislikes(the minority) should have the same rights as we do. Perhaps one day we will figure out that we either have liberty for all or liberty for none
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libertas pro omnibus vel pro nullus
Liberty for all, or none