“I need every black man in the country to go out tomorrow and buy an AR-15 assault weapon. They’ll be banned by Tuesday.”
Thus read the dumbest meme I’ve read since the Parkland, Florida shooting—Made doubly stupid by it originating with an LGBT activist white male and posted on a black male friend’s FB page. It speaks to a sort of backhanded racism rife in the contemporary and completely self unaware American left.
The meme brings up questions obvious to the thinking, yet elusive to the folks inclined towards posting such utter nonsense. Do you believe American government is so systemically racist it would make the meme true? Do you buy into the idea law enforcement is so systemically racist it makes it policy to kill as many unarmed black men as is possible to get away with? Do Black lives indeed matter?
If you answer yes to any of the above queries and subscribe to the idea of banning AR-15s or any other high-capacity, commercially available semi-automatic firearm the question begging for an answer? Why would you cede your personal protection to the same racist government and law enforcement you fear undermines the importance of your black life? Government and law enforcement, have real assault weapons capable of full automatic fire which will go nowhere after they ban your semi-automatic rifle.
If they are as problematical as you fear, wouldn’t it further empower a system already hostile to LGBT and black folks?
The idea so many black folks in America (That is black folks not tied into criminality.) buy into the leftist idea of banning and removing semi-automatic rifles, speaks directly to the effectiveness of our handlers conditioning. The first restrictions on our 2nd enumerated right came about specifically to keep freshly emancipated slaves unarmed. The 1893 Florida Gun Control Act as explained by Supreme Court Justice Rivers Buford was “Never intended to be applied to the white population.”
In the 1960s when Riots began to break out in Los Angeles, Newark and Chicago, Congress passed the 1968 Gun Control Act. The Act, authored by Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd and signed by President Johnson was literally copied from the gun act passed by the Nazis in 1938 Germany. The Dodd act was pushed by the public outcry following the assassinations of DR. King and Bobby Kennedy, but it specifically targeted a specific group, black folks. The left uses every opportunity to use the same Hegelian principals which inspired the Nazis—Like Rahm Emanuel stated: “You never let a good crisis go to waste.”
The contemporary liberal says the 2nd Amendment is archaic and governmental tyranny can and will never rear its ugly head in the United States. Yet, it was in fact state and local municipalities all over the nation, in our not too distant past acting to curtail our inalienable rights. Further, the tyranny inflicted by the United State’s criminal culture is no less oppressive than can be brought to bear by government. Real tyranny played out daily as the law abiding are preyed upon.
Decades of cleverly devised and implemented messaging in all American media created and controlled by the left has worked to vilify firearms instead of villains. I see men, I mean grown men, husbands and fathers saying “I can’t understand why anyone wants or needs to own a gun.” How do you look at your loved ones and not see a reason to procure the most effective means of defending them?
Growing up as one of the last members of the Baby Boom, I did not personally know a father who did not own a firearm to protect his family. My dad owned a surplus M1 carbine just like the one seen in the famous (By any means necessary) Malcolm X photo, equipped with what he used to call banana clips. These were 30 round magazines in a rifle, though not all black like a scary looking modern AR-15, had the equivalent rate of fire. In the 1970s a surplus M1 was dirt cheap, as was the surplus ammo—Dad liked the M1 carbine because it was what he learned to use in the Navy. In other words, the M1 is an actual military rifle issued to GIs during WWII and up to it being replaced by the M-16.
By virtue of the M1 carbine being only capable of semi-automatic fire, it is not designated an Assault Weapon, hence the need for an actual American Assault Weapon resulting in the M-16 which is capable of full automatic fire. The commercially available AR-15 is a copy of the M-16 without the full auto “Assault” function. Just like dear old dad’s M1 carbine.
My dad also had a Smith and Wesson .38. He taught my sister and I how to operate both firearms. In fact, the M1 was the first firearm I ever fired. The carbine is a very effective home defense weapon precisely because it is so easy to operate and has such little felt recoil, a ten year old boy can do it. Just like a modern AR-15.
He taught me to field strip it and clean it—he removed all mystery from the firearms in our home, preparing us to defend ourselves when he was out. We did not touch them without his supervision, though they were easily accessible at all times. However, an intruder was equally at risk whether or not my dad was home.
I see men say silly things like: “I have a baseball bat, swords, knives, martial arts training…” If your home is assaulted while you and your family are home by thugs with guns and you are standing there with a sword, you are unarmed. You may get lucky and cut the first guy, but the next one will not be surprised. It’s the reason cops and soldiers don’t carry swords in the field.
Not quite sure how leaving your personal defense to others is somehow noble—In my opinion it speaks to a sad naïveté, or tragic stupidity at best and cowardice at worst. We’ve all heard the cliché by now: When every second counts, the police are minutes away.
I’m not saying a bad guy can’t get the drop on me, even if I’m armed locked and loaded—Nevertheless, call it a character flaw if you must, I’d rather be prepared.
One of the heroes of the so-called “Woke” black community, the aforementioned Malcolm X habitually called on the black community to buy not pistols, not swords and knives, but rifles and shotguns. Going so far as to admonish black folks to organize rifle clubs. This was before “After School Specials,” social justice propaganda indoctrinated teachers and liberal media made owning a firearm for protection akin to mental disorder, especially in the problematic black community.
The left continues its soft assault on the black community, it’s better for us to choose killing our children in the womb, keep our children in failing urban schools instead of vouchers and look to the democratic teat for succor. Black Lives Matter… but not enough to own a gun so you can protect yourself, we got you, don’t worry.
Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Bernie Sanders are fine with you and our school children being defenseless as they seek “Common Sense” gun laws. They expect you to ignore the fact they may not be armed personally, they still have serious and resolute men armed to the teeth ready to do violence on their privileged behalf.
Guns have always been plentiful in the United States, 40, 60 or 100 years ago there was no paucity of firearms of any kind, yet our youth weren’t shooting up their schoolmates. Firearms are even more ubiquitous in countries like Switzerland where families have generations of military rifles in their homes. After service in the Swiss Army, you take your weapon home with you. Yet we do not see this happening in Switzerland or in our own past. What is the difference here and now? What has so dramatically changed since the 80s?
The left wing rush to promote secularism in The USA has removed the societal reinforcement of the principals formally taught in our homes and churches. When you remove the Immutable Source for morality, what you end up with is not morality at all, but rather fashion. Absent a fear of the Creator God holding us responsible for our actions in our children, is it any wonder for some students it is fashionable to become a “Professional School Shooter?”
As always I am reminded of Holy Scripture, specifically the Lord preparing his disciples for the days to come Luke 22:31-38
“And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.”
Digital Publius
