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Sheriff David Clarke on why blacks in this country should defend the 2nd Amendment more than any other group....
And in particular because the democrats have tried to keep them unarmed since Republicans freed them....
Sheriff Clarke: Gun Control Was Meant to Keep Arms Away from Black People
WASHINGTON — Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. said he was inspired to advocate for the protection of the Second Amendment after reading about the efforts to keep guns out of the hands of freed slaves who fought for the right to bear arms.
“The fight by the abolitionists, post-slavery, for blacks to be able to be armed — do you know that gun control, early gun control, was really about keeping guns out of the hands of black people? We as black people have been so separated from our history it’s astounding to me. We should be some of the most ardent supporters of the Second Amendment because our history was not being able to possess arms to be able to defend ourselves from mobs, kidnappings and lynchings,” he said during a Heritage Foundation event, “The Right to Arms and the War on Guns.”
“The 13th Amendment freed the blacks on paper but it wasn’t until the 14th amendment that made the rest of this Constitution including the Second Amendment apply to black people, and we truly became free because we could defend ourselves. It’s the first law of nature — self-defense. We all want to live,” he added.
Clarke read a passage from Stephen P. Holbrook’s book, That Every Man Be Armed, about the “black tradition of arms,” which included a series of partial quotes from Frederick Douglas about the right to bear arms.
And in particular because the democrats have tried to keep them unarmed since Republicans freed them....
Sheriff Clarke: Gun Control Was Meant to Keep Arms Away from Black People
WASHINGTON — Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. said he was inspired to advocate for the protection of the Second Amendment after reading about the efforts to keep guns out of the hands of freed slaves who fought for the right to bear arms.
“The fight by the abolitionists, post-slavery, for blacks to be able to be armed — do you know that gun control, early gun control, was really about keeping guns out of the hands of black people? We as black people have been so separated from our history it’s astounding to me. We should be some of the most ardent supporters of the Second Amendment because our history was not being able to possess arms to be able to defend ourselves from mobs, kidnappings and lynchings,” he said during a Heritage Foundation event, “The Right to Arms and the War on Guns.”
“The 13th Amendment freed the blacks on paper but it wasn’t until the 14th amendment that made the rest of this Constitution including the Second Amendment apply to black people, and we truly became free because we could defend ourselves. It’s the first law of nature — self-defense. We all want to live,” he added.
Clarke read a passage from Stephen P. Holbrook’s book, That Every Man Be Armed, about the “black tradition of arms,” which included a series of partial quotes from Frederick Douglas about the right to bear arms.
