Keep in mind folks, without the people's right to bear arms, the Deacons would not have been able to do what they did. Remember that the first gun control laws in our country were passed in the South to keep guns out of the hands of blacks.
I don't know if the filmmakers realize it or not, but they made one damn fine argument for the people's right to bear arms. Kudos!
Much of the left has this myth that equates the NRA with the KKK. What they fail to realize is that the NRA was founded by ex-Union soldiers, and that the KKK was founded by ex-Confederate soldiers who were pissed off that they lost the civil war. A lot of African-Americans actually joined the NRA during the 1950's and 1960's.
At the same time, the KKK likes to take advantage of the same right to bear arms.
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shareI'm all for gun rights. Of course I was born in Texas,so you already know. I don't agree with the NRA on some things. Like having mentally ill people get guns. Thats never worked out for the good.
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Remember that the first gun control laws in our country were passed in the South to keep guns out of the hands of blacks.
What an idiotic point to make. If there was no right to bear arms then the Klan wouldn't have had guns either. This story has as much to do with guns as it does elephants...ie, nothing at all.
But, hey, you've got an agenda to push so I guess you don't care what the point of the film was.
The KKK and later the American Nazi party certainly took advantage of gun laws of the early 20th Century, but that doesn't change the fact that the founders of the NRA and founders of the KKK were political polar opposites. Also, after the bloodbath at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, there were African-Americans who threatened to forgo non-violence and start shooting at police officers, but the leaders of the civil rights movement talked many of them out of it because the cops/klansmen were better armed with newer high-powered rifles, and many African-Americans who had guns only had old guns they inherited from their grandfathers who fought either in the Civil War or as Buffalo soldiers.
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