Author: 2nd Amendment Made Civil Rights Movement Possible

Breitbart.com ^ | June 6,2014 | Awr Hawkins

[Biggirl]

In his new book, This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made The Civil Rights Movement Possible, journalist Charles Cobb shows how important guns were not only to leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. but also to many black Southerners who "believed in both nonviolence and self-defense."

[afsnco]

Most gun control laws were passed due to racism, to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. Most gun control laws still do that very thing, making it illegal (or too expensive) to own a gun for self-defense.

[onedoug]

I’d think most black homeowners in the rural south to be pretty well armed. In fact, drop the word ‘black’ and it’s an even closer demographic.