Thread: Black conservatives: Gun control has ‘racist’ roots [VIDEO]

Black conservatives: Gun control has ‘racist’ roots [VIDEO]

2:34 PM 02/22/2013

VIDEO AT THE PAGE LINK: Black conservatives: Gun control has 'racist' roots [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller

Conservative African-American leaders spoke out against President Barack Obama’s call for more Gun Control on Friday, some saying the proposed measures have “racist” origins.

“For black Americans, we know that gun control has ultimately been about people control. It sprouts from racist soil; be it after the, or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man’s humanity was not recognized,” said Niger Innis, spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality at the press conference sponsored by the Center for Urban Renewal and Education.

Harry Alford, the president of the Black Chamber of Commerce, praised the National Rifle Association in his speech at the event.

“The National Rifle Association was started, founded by religious leaders who wanted to protect free slaves from the Ku Klux Klan,” said Alford.

“They would raise money, buy arms, show the free slaves how to use those arms and protect their families. God bless you. Many of us probably wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for the NRA.”

Alford told The Daily Caller he agrees with Innis that gun control laws have “racist” origins.

Some of the leaders argued that cities with the most crime have the strictest gun control laws.

“How many children have to die, black and white, for us to come to the conclusion that most of the gun violence is in cities with the most gun control? When are we going to change our minds and put some common sense in there?” said Ken Hutcherson, former linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys and pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Washington state.

“This current administration is far from the truth,” said William Owens Jr., founder of God, Guns and the Constitution.

“When they take our guns, they will also seek to take our God, and that’s when Americans will fight back.”

Obama met with a group of African-American leaders on Thursday including Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP president to discuss public policy issues.

Follow Nicholas on Twitter

Read more: Black conservatives: Gun control has 'racist' roots [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller

Been warning and Warning... the Democrat party has ROOT's in the KKK

they try to hide it, but they can't "Once Again they are trying to do what they failed in the past"

Black America remembers "Thank You Jesus" for these people coming forward"

Amen my AMERICAN Brothers and Sisters "I STAND WITH YOU"

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammo

You just got called out for what you truly are Colorado "A RACIST STATE"

WEAPONS OF CHOICE

PRESERVE GUN RIGHTS, SAVE BLACK LIVES

Star Parker: Law-abiding urban Americans need more firearms, not fewer

Published: 2 hours ago

by STAR PARKER Email | Archive

This past Friday my organization, CURE, sponsored a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington to bring attention to the importance of rigorously defending the right of all Americans, guaranteed under the Second Amendment of our Constitution, to own a gun.

Our event provided a forum for black leaders from the world of politics and public policy in Washington, from the business community, from academia and from the clergy to express their deep concern about efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional individual right of self-defense.

Why would an organization like CURE, whose mission focuses on the relevance of American values of faith and freedom to minorities, be so concerned about guns?

Because, as conservative black Americans, we know that the soul of America is kept alive with the free flow of the oxygen of freedom. And we know that when that flow is interrupted in any way, the group that suffers first and most are blacks.

New gun-control initiatives coming from our president and from Democrats in Congress to respond to a highly publicized tragedy by wanting to expand the power of government and limit the freedom of citizens comes as no surprise.

There is no problem facing America today that liberals do not believe should be solved by more government and less freedom. And liberals are consistent and predictable in their indifference to facts and experience that show whenever they do succeed in growing government and limiting freedom, they make matters worse, not better.

A substantial body of research already shows that gun controls empower criminals and weaken law-abiding citizens.

As John Lott, former chief economist of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “With just a single exception, the attack in Tucson last year, every public shooting in the U.S. in which three or more people have been killed since at least 1950 have occurred in a place where people are not allowed to carry their own firearms.”

Regarding black reality, blacks are the least armed, least protected and defended, and the most assaulted citizens in our country.

According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 42 percent of whites and 16 percent of blacks say that they have a pistol or rifle at home.

And, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, for the period 1980 to 2008, “Blacks were six times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and eight times more likely to commit a homicide.”

Law-abiding black citizens live under siege in crime-ridden urban centers. Somehow they are supposed to buy the logic that giving more power to those in law enforcement already charged with maintaining order but don’t, while stripping down the freedoms of those that do obey the law, will make them better off?

In a Pew Research Center survey in 2009, 46 percent of whites compared to 24 percent of blacks said they have a “great deal” of confidence in the local police to enforce the law.

Can anyone whom God has blessed with a brain actually think that universal background checks will keep guns out of the hands of gang thugs? Or that these same checks, in which some past legal infraction might nullify a gun application, will not result in even fewer urban law-abiding blacks obtaining a weapon for protection?

Perhaps even worse than another make-pretend big-government “answer” that will not only not solve a problem, but will make it worse, gun-control initiatives mask over the issues that really need attention: a culture that devalues personal responsibility, that fosters government dependence, that trashes traditional understanding of sex, marriage and family and that bans these traditional values from our public schools and our public life.
Americans of all backgrounds must fight yet another misguided liberal attempt to undermine our personal freedom and sap the vitality of our nation.


Read more at Preserve gun rights, save black lives

http://www.alipac.us/f19/sheriff-dav...ail%92-273245/