{"id":68371,"date":"2017-01-19T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T22:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=68371"},"modified":"2017-01-19T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:04:28","slug":"anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_68372\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MLKSpeech.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\" title=\"Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68372\" title=\"Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MLKSpeech-400x291.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat\" width=\"400\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MLKSpeech-400x291.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MLKSpeech-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MLKSpeech-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MLKSpeech.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: Wikipedia<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anti-gunners will use any opportunity to advance their agenda &#8212; both national tragedies and national celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent example comes from Moms Demand Action Founder Shannon Watts, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shannonrwatts\/status\/821030505122529281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\" title=\"Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat\">took to Twitter<\/a> on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day to suggest that King fought for all civil rights except the one located in the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just one problem: Dr. King applied for a concealed carry permit in Alabama in 1956 to protect himself after his wife and daughter\u2019s home was fire bombed. Law enforcement officials denied his request, but, as NRA spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4epucsN7sgY\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\" title=\"Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat\">Colion Noir<\/a> explains, he still surrounded himself with people who carried guns.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. King\u2019s home was also described by one of his advisors as an \u201carsenal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ironic, then, that Moms Demand Action leaders and volunteers seem to believe Dr. King would have championed their cause. Not only is the anti-gun agenda an anti-civil rights agenda, but Dr. King himself was by all accounts supportive of the right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>The revisionist history Watts is peddling couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. As African-American Professor Nicholas Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/01\/31\/negroes-and-the-gun-non-violent-winchesters-and-the-fine-art-of-concealed-carry-in-the-modern-civil-rights-movement\/?utm_term=.f0351dc65b59\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\" title=\"Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat\">outlines<\/a> in his book <em>Negroes and the Gun<\/em>, there is a long and storied history within, what he calls, the \u201cBlack tradition of arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first gun control policies were designed to keep African Americans from owning guns. These laws ensured that the black population would be kept in a state of servitude by denying them the legal ability to effectively defend themselves.<\/p>\n<p>So, once African-Americans gained the right to own firearms, they used these tools to protect their homes and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson explains how in 1946 armed African American men stopped plans to lynch Thurgood Marshall. At Rosa Parks\u2019 activist meetings on Huffman Street, the attendees carried weapons for self-defense. Another famous activist named Daisy Bates kept \u201cOld Betsey\u201d at the ready. Her memoir shows that she often carried a gun and once actually fired it at a man who had launched a firebomb at her home.<\/p>\n<p>Like Dr. King, all of these individuals understood the difference between self-defense and aggressive violence. They owned and carried firearms while advocating for peaceful protest because they knew that responsible Americans can be trusted with guns. The ability to own and carry a firearm is a civil liberty granted to all Americans, and they weren\u2019t about to relinquish their right to self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Modern anti-gunners don\u2019t understand this distinction. They believe that \u201cpeace\u201d equals \u201cno guns,\u201d so when Dr. King advocates for peace he must also be advocating for gun control.<\/p>\n<p>History demonstrates the flaws of this way of thinking. Gun ownership gives the weak, the downtrodden,\u00a0the marginalized the opportunity to live in peace and security. Dr. King knew this to be true, and the record of African-American gun ownership demonstrates that gun rights truly are civil rights as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-gunners will use any opportunity to advance their agenda &#8212; both national tragedies and national celebrations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":68372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,216],"tags":[132,469,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-gun-control","12":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anti-gunners will use any opportunity to advance their agenda -- both national tragedies and national celebrations.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Anti-gunners will use any opportunity to advance their agenda -- both national tragedies and national celebrations.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-01-19T22:10:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-20T16:04:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MLKSpeech.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"793\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"577\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jordan Michaels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jordan Michaels\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jordan Michaels\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a21614cb8c2dd3512bbbaa26c54521ad\"},\"headline\":\"Anti-Gunners Embarrassed: MLK Day Protests Fall Flat\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-01-19T22:10:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-20T16:04:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":491,\"commentCount\":17,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/anti-gunners-embarrassed-mlk-day-protests-fall-flat\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/MLKSpeech.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buzz\",\"Gun Control\",\"News\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Authors\",\"Current Events\",\"S.H. 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