Virginia Pizza Shop Offers A Discount To Anyone Who Carries A Gun

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90. 41 years ago the NRA didn't even have a political action arm. How'd they get that?...

Charleton Heston may have been concerned about his hands, but before his statements there was this:

"You can't have my gun. The only way you're gonna get it from me is to try and take it." Huey Newton to the police in 1966-67.

Of course Ronald Reagan got the gun-control ball rolling with the Mulford Act in California which made it illegal to openly carry firearms in public; I mean, no one really wanted black folks with guns. The fear of armed blacks underwrote the 1968 Gun Controls Act.

As basic understanding of the history of modern gun control will reveal its racist origins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special

In his book Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out, civil rights attorney and gun scholar Don Kates found racial overtones in the focus on the Saturday Night Special[16] ("niggertown Saturday night special&quot . Even gun control advocate Robert Sherrill claimed: "The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed not to control guns but to control blacks."[17]
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Distasteful, disappointing, but that is the real beginnings of late 10th Century gun control. Go back further, and the precursors for many gun laws (proposed and enacted) were based on both antebellum and Jim Crow era Southern laws. Even NYC's Sullivan Laws were based on anti-Italian sentiment. Prohibition seems really to be about peoples, not the things, behaviors or status which is to be banned.