Thursday, February 14, 2013

YOU CAN'T BAN EVIL: A BLACK WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON GUN CONTROL

Via Cousin Bill


5 comments:

  1. I think I am in love.

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  2. I wonder if that lady is aware of the fact that the NRA was started by Union officers after the Civil War because those officers were disturbed by the fact that freed slaves were not allowed to own guns? I wish more folks, of all races and creeds, were as savy as she is.

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    1. the NRA was started by Union officers after the Civil War because those officers were disturbed by the fact that freed slaves were not allowed to own guns?

      Do you have a link?

      This is what I found.

      The National Rifle Association was first chartered in the state of New York on November 17, 1871[11] by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church and General George Wood Wingate. Its first president was Civil War General Ambrose Burnside, who had worked as a Rhode Island gunsmith, and Wingate was the original secretary of the organization. Church succeeded Burnside as president in the following year.

      Union Army records for the Civil War indicate that its troops fired about 1,000 rifle shots for each Confederate soldier hit, causing General Burnside to lament his recruits: "Out of ten soldiers who are perfect in drill and the manual of arms, only one knows the purpose of the sights on his gun or can hit the broad side of a barn."[12] The generals attributed this to the use of volley tactics, devised for earlier, less accurate smoothbore muskets.[13][14]

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