| Ken Blackwell on Second Amendment Rights |
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| Written by Daniel White | |
| Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | |
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Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell wrote an article for Townhall.com where he discussed the effects the right to keep and bear arms had on the civil rights movement. The spring and summer of 1964 were landmark periods for civil rights. In growing numbers, Southerners marched against segregation. The battle over race lit Louisiana aflame. In response to civil rights activism, the Klan wreaked havoc on black neighborhoods, but soon found itself face-to-face with the Deacons. Gun control in this country is rooted in racism, as Blackwell points out when he notes that "gun control measures, from the slave gun bans of the 1700s South to the Brady Bill regulations of the 1990s have unfairly targeted black Americans and have worked to curtail a disproportionate number of their constitutional rights." Gun control isn't about crime, it is about control. Blackwell acknowledges this when he writes, "In prohibiting blacks from exercising the freedoms granted other Americans in the Second Amendment, the Black Codes emphasized the notion that African-Americans were not true citizens with full human rights." There are still those out there who hold similar beliefs about all gun owners in general. Click here to read the entire article. |