The chairman of Gun Appreciation Day may be taking “Django Unchained” a little too seriously.

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Gun Appreciation Day Organizer: If Slaves Had Guns, Slavery Wouldn’t Have Happened
Jan 12 2013 in Politics by Imani Gandy (ABL)


Dipshit Unchained

Today in Stupid, Larry Ward, the organizer of Gun Appreciation Day — a day on which gun lovers are supposed to show their support for the Second Amendment by going to a gun range and shooting extra hard (oh, and on MLK Day, no less) — told CNN that slavery might not have happened if black people had owned guns.


Larry Ward on Friday told CNN that he created the first annual Gun Appreciation Day just days before President Barack Obama’s inauguration and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to “honor the legacy of Dr. King” and that slavery may never have happened in the United States if African-Americans had owned guns.

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He added: “The truth is, I think Martin Luther King would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history. And I believe wholeheartedly that’s essential to liberty.”

http://angryblackladychronicles.com/2013/01/12/gun-appreciation-day-organizer-if-slaves-had-guns-slavery-wouldnt-have-happened/

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I started to compose something

but the premise is so ludicrous that I won't even lend credence by arguing it.

[Bjorn Against]

2. So Martin Luther King advocated taking up arms against their oppressors?

I studied a fair amount about Martin Luther King and read a good number of his writings but I don't seem to remember him advocating taking up arms.

This is not the first time i have seen gun nuts compare themselves to King in recent days though. It started with Ted Nugent's stupid comparision of gun enthusiasts to Rosa Parks and now all the idiot gun nuts are trying to pretend they are just like the Civil Rights movement.

[lunasun]

3. This is so stupid btw I read slavery is not covered in school UShistory books in TX now

I do not know if this is true now but really how stupid can someone be???

Why would we want a gun appreciation day right now??? $$$$$
No coincidence it is over MLK holiday weekend
They mostly are money grabbing haters -the flyer for this day mentions doing this 'chick fil a " style.
same haters imo as that appreciation day crowd