Then I noticed that Ken Blackwell had his writers draft another story for his column at Town Hall. In his column, Blackwell's researchers bring up some good points on the history of the Civil Rights movement and the role firearms had in supposedly protecting African-Americans during the hey day of the Ku Klux Klan.
I say supposedly because Blackwell has a history, when speaking or writing columns, of embellishing or spinning the facts to make his "stories" better. But being pro-gun and strongly supporting our second amendment rights, I wanted to read it anyway.
At first, I was thinking how it was a very informative column and the importance the second amendment played in founding and the subsequent growing up of our country. Then as usual "Black eye Blackwell" does it AGAIN!
That gun rights have played such a pivotal role in racial equality makes the historical correlation between gun control and discriminatory policies unsurprising.
From their beginnings, gun control measures have worked to create legal disparities, granting unequal rights to members of various socioeconomic groups. In fact, restrictive gun laws have long been employed to the benefit of a select elite while circumscribing the liberty of populations less popular or less powerful.
Gun control measures, from the slave gun bans of the 1700s South to the Brady Bill regulations of the 1990s have unfairly targeted black Americans and have worked to curtail a disproportionate number of their constitutional rights.
The Brady Bill regulations tried to curtail the rights of ALL legal gun owners.
Is Ken trying to say that MORE guns should be brought in to the predominately black neighborhoods?
I think it would be fairly accurate to say most inner cities, black, white or latino, where poverty abounds and crime is high, the feelings would be there are to many guns. There have been many studies performed showing the negative effect of guns and crime among inner city African-Americans.
I know that many "black Americans" living in the inner city of Cleveland, feels there are to many guns in the hands of young black males. Had Ken spent anytime in Cleveland, he would have known this. Obviously, this was not a topic of discussion when he had his photo-ops with the black clergy from this area.
Blackwell's attempt to turn gun control into a "racism" issue, shows he really is out of touch with reality and the black voters, that he claims abandoned him.
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