Conservative commentator and Director of Urban Engagement for Turning Point USA, Candace Owens, urged the black community to protect the National Rifle Association (NRA), reminding them that the pro-Second Amendment group started out as a means to protect against the KKK.
Owens appeared on Fox & Friends this past Sunday and proudly announced, “I just joined the NRA.”
She then set about providing viewers with a brief history lesson on why the organization is such a vital piece of history for African-Americans.
“I’m a black American,” Owens explained, “and I know that the NRA was started as a civil rights organization training black Americans to arm themselves and to defend themselves against the KKK.”
Owens is correct and clearly knows her history, a topic some students from Parkland, Florida, have failed to grasp in their push to abolish the NRA.
She added that “Democrats have been good at wiping away history and re-writing it” when it comes to the Second Amendment-supporting group.
Historians agree.
In his book ‘Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America,’ UCLA law professor Adam Winkler writes, “Few people realize it, but the Ku Klux Klan began as a gun control organization.”
“After the Civil War, the Klan and other violent racist groups sought to reaffirm white supremacy, which required confiscating the guns blacks had obtained for the first time during the conflict,” he wrote.
Author Ann Coulter also shared knowledge of the NRA as a counter to the KKK.
Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice recently shared a story in which her father and their neighbors used guns as a means to protect their community from Klan racists.
“Let me tell you why I’m a defender of the Second Amendment,” Rice began. “I was a little girl growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the late fifties, early sixties. There was no way that Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police were going to protect you.”
“And so when White Knight Riders would come through our neighborhood,” she continued, “my father and his friends would take their guns and they’d go to the head of the neighborhood, it’s a little cul-de-sac and they would fire in the air, if anybody came through.”
“I don’t think they actually ever hit anybody. But they protected the neighborhood,” Rice concluded.
As for Owens, she wants to see black Americans rise up and defend the NRA.
“It’s very important that black Americans take a stand and protect the NRA in the same way that they defended us,” she said.
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People that live in the city and do not have "rattlesnakes" along their hiking trails in the concrete jungle or do not "hunt" for food or go target shooting and do not know the use or workings of guns be they are handguns or rifles (Automatic, Semi-Automatic, or Revolvers)Ask people that live in rural Alaska or any other off the grid areas what it would be like without having guns for their protection and for hunting for food. (I think gun safety and proficiency should be taught in all schools).
The NRA hasn't always opposed gun control.
In the 1920's NRA proposed permits for concealed carry, five years of extra prison time if a gun was used in a crime, a ban on gun sales to non-citizens, a one day waiting period, and records of gun sales made available to police.
In the 1930's NRA helpd draft the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act. Taxes and regulations were placed on machine guns, sawed off shotguns and silencers. Mandatory federal registration of gun sellers and owners, and felons banned from owning weapons.
Karl T. Frederick, the president of the NRA, testified before Congress stating, “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”
In 1963 NRA supported the baning of mail-order sales of guns.
In 1967 NRA supported the Mulford Act in California which banned carrying loaded weapons in public.
The claim that gun control is intended to take away the right to own guns is bogus, and the idea that it violates the Second Amendment is a recent idea.
The NRA hasn't always opposed gun control.
In the 1920's NRA proposed permits for concealed carry, five years of extra prison time if a gun was used in a crime, a ban on gun sales to non-citizens, a one day waiting period, and records of gun sales made available to police.
In the 1930's NRA helpd draft the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act. Taxes and regulations were placed on machine guns, sawed off shotguns and silencers. Mandatory federal registration of gun sellers and owners, and felons banned from owning weapons.
Karl T. Frederick, the president of the NRA, testified before Congress stating, “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”
In 1963 NRA supported the baning of mail-order sales of guns.
In 1967 NRA supported the Mulford Act in California which banned carrying loaded weapons in public.
The claim that gun control is intended to take away the right to own guns is bogus, and the idea that it violates the Second Amendment is a recent idea.
Learning to use a gun and taking responsibility for owning a gun is a necessary part of smart citizenship. World history reveals atrocities committed by authoritarian socialist-marxist-dictatorial regimes in places and times when guns were outlawed and confiscated. Millions of educated, intelligent people lost their lives because they had no means of defending themselves.
Learning to use a gun and taking responsibility for owning a gun is a necessary part of smart citizenship. World history reveals atrocities committed by authoritarian socialist-marxist-dictatorial regimes in places and times when guns were outlawed and confiscated. Millions of educated, intelligent people lost their lives because they had no means of defending themselves.
More people are killed every year from falling out of bed than with guns. Glad Owens is standing up for the NRA, hope other blacks follow suit.
More people are killed every year from falling out of bed than with guns. Glad Owens is standing up for the NRA, hope other blacks follow suit.
this is the problem with this country. too many history lessons are being erased by people because they do not fit their agenda. the media pushes these falsehoods and keeps americans divided. i think the fcc should step in to these news companies and state when they tell a falsehood they will be fined and pulled from the airways for a period of a month. three times being pulled from the airways in a period of 12 months, the news station should be dissolved and not allowed to continue.
this is the problem with this country. too many history lessons are being erased by people because they do not fit their agenda. the media pushes these falsehoods and keeps americans divided. i think the fcc should step in to these news companies and state when they tell a falsehood they will be fined and pulled from the airways for a period of a month. three times being pulled from the airways in a period of 12 months, the news station should be dissolved and not allowed to continue.
MORE PEOPLE ARE KILLED BY EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL THAN BY GUNS HERE IN THIS COUNTRY, 30 THOUSAND BY PLANES ONE DAY. INSTEAD OF GUNS, GO AFTER THE TRAITORS IN THIS COUNTRY, FIND OUT WHY NIXON PARTONED MCCAIN, ABOUT THE IRAN DEAL, JOHN KERRY AND HANOI JANE. IF THE NEWS MEDIA WOULD ONLY DO WHAT IS RIGHT AND NOT BE SO BIASED THEY COULD HELP THIS COUNTRY A LOT, INSTEAD THEY ARE ONE OF THE GROUP TRYING TO DESTROY US.