Thread Split: Incels and Gun Control/Your typing of forum members

[xerx]

Republicans will push for gun control when Leftists and Black people start forming armed militias.

[Adam Strange]

Republicans will push for gun control when Leftists and Black people start forming armed militias.

Oh, man, this is so true.

This actually happened in 1967. Members of the Black Panther party started carrying loaded guns on the street. They would listen in on police band radios and would show up with loaded, open carry weapons at the scene of police arrests in their neighborhoods. Republicans immediately started sponsoring gun control legislation.

It has always been about who has the guns.

[Dauphin]

Oh, man, this is so true.

This actually happened in 1967. Members of the Black Panther party started carrying loaded guns on the street. They would listen in on police band radios and would show up with loaded, open carry weapons at the scene of police arrests in their neighborhoods. Republicans immediately started sponsoring gun control legislation.

It has always been about who has the guns.

If the Black Panthers were still around I'd bet that there'd be half as much violence in black ghettos, and of course that's where the majority of gun violence is in America. Their implosion was nearly inevitable, but they knew what their communities needed.

[Alonzo]

If the Black Panthers were still around I'd bet that there'd be half as much violence in black ghettos, and of course that's where the majority of gun violence is in America. Their implosion was nearly inevitable, but they knew what their communities needed.

First off, let's be clear > the Black Panthers did not seek to protect themselves from "themselves" but from race based police brutality; and through armed "force" they sought a black empowerment that would alleviate high unemployment, substandard housing, and exclusion from political representation, top universities, and the "American Dream"--all the ills directly and indirectly responsible for the "ghettos" and "violence" in the first place. You are right that they knew precisely what their communities needed, freedom from white supremacy. Now how about we focus more on the underlying illness and not just the symptoms? Interesting how you're perfectly capable of looking "beyond the surface" for pasty incels and mass murderers.

[Dauphin]

First off, let's be clear > the Black Panthers did not seek to protect themselves from "themselves" but from race based police brutality; and through armed "force" they sought a black empowerment that would alleviate high unemployment, substandard housing, and exclusion from political representation, top universities, and the "American Dream"--all the ills directly and indirectly responsible for the "ghettos" and "violence" in the first place. You are right that they knew precisely what their communities needed, freedom from white supremacy. Now how about we focus more on the underlying illness and not just the symptoms? Interesting how you're perfectly capable of looking "beyond the surface" for pasty incels and mass murderers.

I know that, I've read what Huey Newton and George Jackson had written. The Black Panthers weren't exactly subtle in their intentions and who their enemies were.

[Adam Strange]

If the Black Panthers were still around I'd bet that there'd be half as much violence in black ghettos, and of course that's where the majority of gun violence is in America. Their implosion was nearly inevitable, but they knew what their communities needed.

To be clear, the Black Panthers didn’t exactly implode. Their leaders were shot to death by police.