In the wake of the deadly Newtown Connecticut shooting in December, President Barack Obama appointed Vice President Joe Biden to convene a gun violence prevention task force. The National Rifle Association, or the NRA, expressed its disappointment with a meeting it held with Biden, who will release his recommendations on Tuesday.
“We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment,” the NRA wrote in a statement. “While claiming that no policy proposals would be ‘prejudged,’ this Task Force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners — honest, taxpaying, hardworking Americans.”
While today’s NRA takes hardline positions against even the most modest gun control measures, this was not always the case. Throughout its history, the NRA supported gun control, including restrictions on gun ownership, and was not focused on the Second Amendment.
But the organization had a change of heart in the 1970s when the Black Panthers advocated for an individual right to bear arms. Ironically, the Panthers were the founders of the modern-day gun rights movement, which became the purview of predominantly white, rural conservatives.
The ambiguous reading of the Second Amendment notwithstanding, gun control is as old as the Republic, and the amendment was not interpreted as an absolute in the early days of the United States. There was a balance between individual rights and public safety.
For example, slaves and freed blacks were barred from gun ownership, reflecting fears that African-Americans would revolt. At the same time, the founders proscribed gun ownership to many whites, including those who would not swear their loyalty to the Revolution. And contrary to legend, the “Wild, Wild West” had the most severe gun control policies in America.
Meanwhile, the Black Codes of the post-Civil War South were designed to disempower blacks and reestablish white rule.
This included the prohibition on blacks possessing firearms—a law which was enforced by white gun owners such as the Ku Klux Klan, who terrorized black communities. The Northern framers of the Fourteenth Amendment and the first Civil Rights Act viewed gun rights as fundamental to upholding the constitutional protections of the freedmen.
When Prohibition-era organized crime led to the enactment of the National Firearms Act of 1934—the nation’s first federal gun control laws—the NRA not only supported restrictive gun control measures, but drafted legislation in numerous states limiting the carrying of concealed weapons. When NRA president Karl Frederick was asked by Congress whether the Second Amendment imposed any restrictions on gun control, he responded that he had “not given it any study from that point of view.”
Frederick said he did “not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.” He helped draft the Uniform Firearms Act, a model law which required a police permit to carry a concealed weapon, a registry of all gun purchases, and a two-day waiting period for firearms sales.
In the 1960s, the NRA continued to support gun control, a wave which was fueled by the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the racial strife and violent uprisings in the nation's urban centers.
The organization actively lobbied in favor of the Gun Control Act of 1968, which banned gun sales by mail, and enacted a system of licensing those people and companies who bought and sold firearms. Franklin Orth, then the executive vice president of the NRA, said that although certain aspects of the law “appear unduly restrictive and unjustified in their application to law-abiding citizens, the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with.”
During that time, the NRA and conservative politicians such as California Governor Ronald Reagan supported gun control as a means of restoring social order, and getting weapons out of the hands of radical, left-leaning and revolutionary groups, particularly the Black Panther Party.
Responding to the perceived failures of the nonviolent civil rights movement, the Black Panthers took a more militant and uncompromising approach of the fallen leader Malcolm X. Led by figures including Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the Panthers’ “by any means necessary” approach included a most aggressive gun ownership policy to protect their communities from police abuse.
Beginning in 1966, the Panthers carried out police patrols, in which they rushed to the scene of an arrest with their loaded weapons publicly displayed, and notified those being arrested of their constitutional rights. California state legislator Don Mulford introduced a bill to repeal the state law allowing citizens to carry loaded guns in public if they were openly displayed. Mulford had the Panthers in mind with this legislation.
On May 2, 1967, a group of Black Panthers protested the bill by walking into the California State Capitol Building fully armed. In response, the legislature passed the Mulford Act. And Gov. Reagan, who was a major proponent of disarming the Panthers, signed the bill into law, effectively neutralizing the Panther Police Patrols.
Yet, in the 1970s the NRA began to shift their direction rightward and actively lobby for gun rights. Their chief lobbyist, Harlon Carter, was a former border control agent and staunch supporter of gun rights. In 1977, Carter and his faction staged a coup within the NRA, against an establishment that wanted to shift away from gun control and crime in favor of conservation and sportsmen’s issues.
With the Black Panther Party and other left wing gun control foes out of the picture, the new hardline NRA feared the government would similarly take away their guns. Further, these predominantly white and conservative gun rights advocates in the NRA shared the Panthers’ distrust of the police.
Ironically, Ronald Reagan—who had signed the Mulford Act to disarm the Black Panther Party—changed his stance and advocated for guns as a defense against state power.
“So isn’t it better for the people to own arms than to risk enslavement by power-hungry men or nations? The founding fathers thought so,” Reagan said in a radio commentary in 1975.
In 1980, the NRA endorsed Reagan for president, the first such endorsement by the group. On March 30, 1981, President Reagan and three others were shot and injured by John Hinckley, Jr., 25, outside the Washington Hilton Hotel
(Courtesy of Columnist David A. Love of The Grio, January 11, 2013. at 8:34 AM)
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Now brothas and sistas, you know it ain't no bad luck accident that the whiteman's
NRA organization (The National Rifle Association)
WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK MAN'S GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, SUCH AS THE REAL BLACK FIST IN THE DAYS OF GENERAL KABAKA OBA (GKO)? NIKKI X'S "BLACK FIST" AIN'T ABOUT SHIT. THEY'RE GORILLAS IN THE MIST, YOU KNOW, JUST SHOWBOATIN'. THEY'RE PRIMATES FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY PURPOSES. MONKEY SMILE, MONKEYS LAUGH. who they love so much, so much so that their own little white babies in school classrooms can get blown to smithereens
WHAT ABOUT BLACK CHILDREN GETTIN' SMOKED BY BLACKS IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS? WHAT ABOUT BLACK BABIES BEING MURDERED BY BLACK MOTHERS? and their own white congress woman talking to constituents gets damn near half of her head get shot off
SHOW US PROOF THAT SHE ALMOST, OR AS YOU SAID, "...DAMN NEAR HALF HER HEAD SHOT OFF." SHOW US PROOF THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. SHOW US LINKS, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND SUCH TO BACK UP YOUR "BIG" STATEMENT ABOUT "HALF HER HEAD" BEING DAMN NEAR HALF SHOT OFF. HALF NOW. YOU KNOW WHAT HALF IS, RIGHT? SEE, WE KNOW THAT JFK HAD HIS HEAD BLOWN TO PIECES, SO WHERE'S YOUR PROOF THAT THE CONGRESS WOMAN, GABRIELLE GIFFORDS' HEAD WAS NEARLY HALF BLOWN OFF.
and ironically lives to tell about it, yet the
NRA right now as this is being written has no intentions of
EVER doing anything to control the gun play in this country
SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT? YOU CLAIM TO BE "THE BLACK FIST". WHY AREN'T YOU PROTESTING IN FRONT OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING, ETC...ABOUT THE GUN PLAY MATTER, INSTEAD OF JUST BLOGGING ABOUT IT? SCARED STILL OF BEING ARRESTED? YEA. SO MUCH FOR "BEST DEDICATED TO THE STRUGGLE" AWARD. SO MUCH FOR "BLACK LIBERATION" TALK. while clinging fiercely to their so-called second amendment under the constitution rights to bear arms.
However, as you just read above straight out of the mouth of history which has shown us that when it came to the black man's second amendment under the constitution right to bear and carry guns to protect their "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK WOMAN'S RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS? YOU ONLY MENTION "...THE BLACK MAN'S SECOND AMENDMENT..." CUT THE CRAP ABOUT, "WHEN I SAY, 'THE BLACK MAN'S', I'M INCLUDING THE BLACK WOMAN." BLACK WOMEN LOVE THEIR INDEPENDENCE, AND THEY DON'T WANT TO BE LUMP IN WITH THE USE OF THE EGO TRIPPIN WORD USE CALLED "MAN". CAN YOU GET TO THAT? , oh well now there's a problem ... Houston We Have A Problem!!!
...CINCINNATI, WE STILL HAVE THE PROBLEM CALLED "NIKKI X" !!! Yeah right! Naw white man
BLACK MAN TOO. YOU have the problem because that same United States constitution your white
slave holding murdering savage greedy forefathers BLACK HISTORY IS NEXT MONTH. BLACK HISTORY IS FULL OF MURDERING SAVAGE, GREEDY, BLACK FOREFATHERS OF ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT IN AFRICA, NOT TO MENTION ABOUT THE TIMES THAT BLACKS HAVE GONE ON A MURDERING SPREE. YOU, NIKKI X, INDIRECTLY MURDERED GKO, YOU AND JT HAVE MADE DEATH THREATS AT ME FOR SPILLING THE TRUTHS ABOUT YOU, ESPECIALLY ABOUT YOU SUCKING MY DICK AND GIVING ME THAT PUSSY OF YOURS ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS. YOU AND JT BE ON SOME MURDERING SAVAGE STUFF. PHONEY ASS MUTHAFUKAZ! IF YOU'RE GONNA BE BLACK FIST, THEN STOP FAKIN' THE SHIT AND STOP TALKIN' INFANTILE ONLINE, BE ABOUT THE BUSINESS THAT THE REAL BLACK FIST WAS KNOWN FOR IN THE DAYS OF GKO. POINT BLANK, NIGGAZ. OR SHOULD I SAY BEE-EE-YOTCHES, SINCE NIKKI X'S "BLACK FIST" IS AFRAID OF BEING ARRESTED FOR CONFRONTING THE POWERS THAT BE ON THEIR OWN? wrote while blacks were still in chains and not allowed to read (by law) stated that the right to bear arms to protect oneself and their property is now
LAW.... You
bloodthirsty slaving holding evil devils NIKKI X, YOU'RE A BLOODTHIRSTY EVIL DEVIL.
didn't figure on the black man and black woman one day getting themselves free
SO WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THE FEMALE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD? THE BLACK MAN DIDN'T FIGURE ON THE BLACK WOMAN ONE DAY GETTIN' HERSELF FREE FROM THE BLACK MAN'S STRONGHOLD ON HER AND HER RIGHT TO BE INDEPENDENT OF HIM, HE DIDN'T SEE IT COMIN' THAT SHE WAS BEING BOLD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO BE INDEPENDENT OF HIM. NOW IT'S HIS ASS BEGGIN' HER TO DRIVE HIM TO PLACES, IT'S HIM BEGGIN' HER TO USE HER VEHICLE(S), AND SO ON. and being able to
READ what "you good ol' boys" wrote and now here it is a couple of hundred years later and the right to bear arms is once again up for debate.
SO WHY AREN'T YOU, NIKKI X, ADDRESSING CINCINNATI CITY COUNCIL ABOUT THE MATTER OF GUN CONTROL AND GUN RIGHTS? THAT'S RIGHT, I KEEP FORGETTIN', YOU DON'T WANT TO BE ARRESTED FOR FACE TO FACE CONFRONTIN' THE POWERS THAT BE. YOU LOVE ONLINE PROTESTIN, BECAUSE IT'S FREEDOM FROM BEING ARRESTED FOR SPEAKIN' YOUR MIND AS A CEO, A GENERAL OF YOUR "BLACK FIST". SO MUCH FOR "BEST DEDICATED TO THE STRUGGLE" AWARD. It wasn't
The Black Panther Party terrorizing and killing white folks!
BLACK PEOPLE TERRORIZE AND KILL THEMSELVES, LIKE YOU AND JT TRIED TO TERRORIZE ME AND MADE DEATH THREATS AT ME. OH, SO THAT'S HOW YOU GOT THE "BEST DEDICATED TO THE STRUGGLE" AWARD. YOU MADE DEDICATED DEATH THREATS AT PEOPLE YOU DON'T LIKE, SUCH AS AT ME, JR, AND OTHERS. HOW BOUT "THE MOST DEDICATED TO MAKING DEATH THREATS" AWARD? Shit, it was the white man and it
still is the white man doing all that shit!
SO WHY AREN'T YOU ADDRESSING CITY COUNCIL AT THE PODIUM ABOUT THE MATTER? BUTLLSHIT. BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA CHOOSE TO ABORT PREGNANCIES, TERRORIZE AND MURDER THEIR CHILDREN, ETC...
It never cease to amaze people of conscious how the white man hates himself,
MAJORITY OF BLACK MEN HATE THEMSELVES. his white woman,
MAJORITY OF BLACK MEN DO NOT LOVE BLACK WOMEN, AND BLACK MEN DO LOVE WHITE WOMEN, WHITE MEN, AND BLACK MEN FOR SEX AND/OR AS THEIR MATE. and his own white child
MAJORITY OF BLACK MEN IN AMERICA DON'T LOVE THEIR CHILDREN, LET ALONE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE WOMAN'S CHILDREN THAT AREN'T HIS, THOUGH HE'S LIVING IN THE HOUSEHOLD WITH THEM. (even hating his own white presidents)
BLACKS HAVE HATED THEIR LEADERS (RELIGIOUS, MILITARILY, ETC...) SINCE THE POSITION OF LEADING CAME TO EXISTENCE. BLACKS HATE OBAMA. THEY HAVE HATED MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., SHAKA ZULU, MANDELA, ETC... so much that when they get their asses blown to bits by one of their own white terrorist brothers that is not even enough to bring them to the proverbial table to rethink their positions on this gun control thing
SAME WITH BLACKS. -YET- When the black man and black woman take up arms as
Africans in America to defend themselves from the same
white devil oppressor terrorist DON'T LEAVE OUT THE BLACK DEVIL OPPRESSOR TERRORISTS, SUCH AS NIKKI X AND JT, WHO MADE DEATH THREATS AT ME. who have for the last 400 plus years been hell-bent on destroying, murdering, and denigrating the black nation
BLACKS HAVE TOO! WHEN YOU SAY BLACK NATION, DO YOU MEAN ALL BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA OR ONLY THE ONES WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVE THE DECEIVING IDEA THAT THERE IS A BLACK NATION IN AMERICA? BECAUSE EITHER WAY, TRUTHFULLY, IF THERE WERE A BLACK NATION IN AMERICA, IT'S EQUALLY DYSFUNCTIONAL AS THE BLACK FAMILIES ARE IN AMERICA. BLACK NATION? WHERE'S THE BLACK NATION DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, JUSTICE SYSTEM, EDUCATION SYSTEM, IT'S DEALINGS ON WALLSTREET, ELECTIONS OF WHO EVER IS THE REPRESENTATION OF THE BLACK NATION, WHERE'S THE BLACK NATION OWN CURRENCY, OR IS THE BLACK NATION DEPENDING UPON AMERICA'S WELFARE SYSTEM TO REMAIN EXISTING? FIGURES, JUST LIKE THE COUNTRY LIBERIA. CLICK THE BLACK NATION IN AMERICA IS A HOAX, A FANTASY TO CONTROL BLACK PEOPLE AND RECEIVE THEIR MONEY.well then those same white devils
AND BLACK DEVILS. fall over themselves running to the table to "discuss the matter",
JUST LIKE THE BLACK DEVILS, AKA, BLACK NATION LEADERS AT THE U.N. TABLE DO, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND MILITARY AID AND SUPPORT FROM AMERICA AND EUROPEAN NATIONS TO KEEP THEM IN POWER FROM THE DISADVANTAGE POOR PEOPLE'S UPRISINGS, DUMB ASS! as they did when those great black heroes The Black Panther Party took up arms and decided to get down for their God-given right to exist in this country.
YEA, TOO BAD NIKKI X'S "BLACK FIST" ISN'T HARDCORE GUERILLA FIGHTIN' LIKE THEM, LET ALONE LIKE THE REAL BLACK FIST WAS IN THE DAYS OF GKO.
PHOTO OF GENERAL KABAKA OBA. REST IN PEACE.
We in
The Black Fist Organization say Bullshit!!! TRUTHFULLY, NIKKI X'S "BLACK FIST" IS BULLSHIT!!! As long as the white man has a right to bear arms then so the hell do we,
NO, BECAUSE NIKKI X'S "BLACK FIST" DECLARES STOP THE VIOLENCE BY NO SHOOTING GUNS. READ HER BLOG PAGES. HER "BLACK FIST" IS SO CONTRADICTORY, ONE MOMENT "...STOP THE VIOLENCE...", NEXT MOMENT IT'S "AS LONG AS THE WHITE MAN HAS A RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS THEN SO THE HELL DO WE..." SOUNDS LIKE HER "BLACK FIST" IS HAS CAUGHT NIKKI X'S BI-POLARISM. the long suffering descendants of African slaves still living, surviving, and striving in these hells of North America called The United States of America.
SO WHY NIKKI X HAS NEVER ADDRESSED THE MATTER TO CITY COUNCIL AT THE PODIUM DURING THE PUBLIC SPEAKING SESSIONS IN THE DAYS OF GKO? IT'S BECAUSE SHE WAS AFRAID OF BEING ARRESTED FOR CONFRONTING THE POWERS THAT BE FACE TO FACE LIKE A "GENERAL" SHOULD HAVE DONE.
Hey! That's just the way it is white man!
WHEN WILL NIKKI X'S "BLACK FIST" AND BLACK MEN CONQUER THE DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY CATASTROPHIES IN THE POVERTY STRICKEN BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS? BLACK MEN DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH IT. THEY'RE THE MAIN REASON FOR THE PROBLEMS.
Deal with it!
TELL THAT TO THE BLACK MEN!
BLACK FIST, BLACK POWER, BLACK NATION!!! PUSSY FIST, PUSSY POWER, PUSSY NATION IS WHAT NIKKI X'S "BLACK FIST" IS!
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