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Quote of the Day: African American Gun Rights In Perspective

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“Gun ownership in the black community has been key to achieving many of the gains that we enjoy today. The marches of the Civil Rights Movement and the accompanied voting registration drives in the Jim Crow South would have been impossible without the Black people from those towns who hosted the out of town marchers in their homes and protected those same marchers with firearms against domestic terrorist attacks from [Ku Klux] Klan members and white mobs. While some of the current gun control laws were well intentioned and others weren’t, I don’t think that the current gun control law structure has had the desired effect of reducing gun violence.” – National African Americans Gun Association President Douglas Jefferson, quoted in Guns ‘key’ to African American equality: NAAGA

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  1. When the Demokkkrats lost their ability to keep their former slaves from voting, they just let loose the criminals from the jails and created entire generations of new ones with their “new society” programs. Congratulations, DNC. You’ve managed to achieve what the KKK could only dream of.

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  2. wisco, (just beyond the cheddar curtain), is on a roll with gun liberties, a fact i love bringing up at the holidays just to watch my bil squirm. he dragged my sister and their kids up nart to get away from all the craziness down here. i got the ball rolling thursday with the hunting age law and all eyes went to him, let it go or engage?
    fun stuff. after a police shooting of a homeless man in a city park he once said, “they should take all the full auto pistols away from the cops.” m’waukee issues glox.

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  3. I have never, ever had an urge to point a gun at myself, let alone load it and put a finger on the trigger. If this wasn’t all made up BS, that person needs some serious help.

    Then again, I value my own life and do not believe it has no meaning. (I’m an agnostic; this belied comes from my own philosophy and not a deity, if that matters.)

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  4. Never had the itch to start tasting gun barrels when I brought them home. So Mr. Author you have one on me.

    That being said why don’t you just be honest about why you bought it in the first place.

    You sir are a coward, you wanted the gun to end your life that’s why you bought it. You want to commit suicide but you don’t want it to hurt and you want it to be over quick so you bought the most efficient tool you could find to do the job.

    The gun didn’t make you do it, the evil NRA didn’t make you do it, and the ammo companies didn’t make you do it no you made that choice all on your own. Then you wussed out and penned this screed that a rabid anti gun leftist media will print because you put the gun in a negative light.

    You got there, on your living room floor, barrel rammed into your mouth pressing against the soft palate. Finger on the trigger, refusing to release the striker and let you end your suffering through your own choices and lack of treatment.

    You got up off that floor and took the gun out because you are too scared of death to end your life and too scared of life to actually live it.

    So you will continue time and time again to try to kill yourself and each time you will find that you can’t, but maybe one of those tries you screw up and manage to half ass it and turn yourself into a vegetable or a paraplegic.

    You are a coward and nothing will ever change that. Keep on penning your anti gun, anti dangerous liberty screed we all see through it. You’re a coward who can’t kill himself because he’s too scared to die and has no value to his life because he’s afraid to live it.

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  5. Wow so much morning digest. Here goes…not giving my kids(or grandkids) a gun for Christmas. Giving the wife one(her choice). Yeah they kill. So does fast food,doctors and lunatics on the highway. Duh. I don’t care if you off yourself with that Glock and your 5.5lb. trigger. I’ve never even thought about putting a gat in my mouth. Duh…and Chiraq is going to pay BIGTIME to Bettie Jones family. “But that boy had a BAT! A bat I tells ya’!”

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  6. I am urging everyone who read Sean Nelson’s screed to call the Kings County Sherriffs office and report that Nelson is a danger to himself and possibly others.
    They should immediately pick up his gun and ammo and rescind his CCW permit. I called this morning to report him.

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  7. So, didn’t that one author just publicly admit he’s a danger to himself and requires commitment to a metal institution, thus making him a prohibited person?

    On another note, once again the whole “I’m ignorant and unstable, you should look to me for guidance on public policy” approach mysteriously fails to be persuasive.

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  8. Nine. Unelected. Persons.

    And our rights ratified by over than 3/4 of the population as a condition of forming the USA go unrecognized.

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  9. I’m putting myself between them and the bullets. They are just a touch too young to be trusted making the cover (stops bullets) and concealment (hides you) decisions. Not that they aren’t smart enough just that with video games and movies being their only influence on the matter they can’t exactly choose correctly under stress. Better I take a few bullets moving them to cover then they take a few hiding behind what the movies and games tells them is cover.

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  10. I seen too many issues out of 40 to 9mm conversion Glocks to carry one. Weren’t mine though and didn’t disassemble them (Once it was an instructor’s gun for class use, and he noted he’d never carry it due to the reliability issues.) so no idea if it can be done better.

    Also: How about this for a “This is what happens to a disarmed populace”?
    http://www.mbs.jp/news/kansai/20171127/00000058.shtml

    11/27 at 11:55 (Japan Time, so the end of 11/26 on the east coast of the US) a boar rampaged across 3 kilometers of Kyoto (Japan’s 7th largest city and former capital) threatening people and giving one man in his 50s a bone fracture. The rampage was only ended by pure luck when it finally died after falling or jumping into Nijō Castle moat and drowning (Note: Nijō Castle and the surrounded area are a MAJOR area for tourism, including no shortage of domestic tourists because of how much pre-Perry stuff is still around). Throw 京都市 イノシシ into Google/Youtube while limiting search results to last two days for more articles/some video.

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  11. #commonsenseguncontrol: A label / slogan used by the anti’s to indicate exactly the opposite of what the words mean. The canonical example is “common sense gun control” which is always about a policy both nonsensical, and controlling something other than guns.

    definition 1 (by the anti’s): Controlling people who’ve done nothing wrong, to no good effect, because some idiot did something idiotic using a gun.

    definition 2 (everybody else): Keeping guns(*) away from idiots, while leaving the rest of us alone.

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  12. I look out my office window and see Baylor U to the right and the new stadium to the left. They are strange to say the least.
    Some Baylor students didn’t like what William Cowper Brann had to say about them and tried to tar and feather then lynch him in 1898.

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  13. Ammo, mags, scope, scope mount, shooting rest, back-up sights, and some other stuff.

    Generally, I think the deals weren’t quite as good this year as last, specifically on guns. I’m not sure if retailers were hedging their bets after Vegas and went a bit more conservative on the ads in case prices spiked after the ad was finalized or what.

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