On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To elaborate, frightened and reactionary whites fantasized they would need
> > to defend themselves in a coming race war with angry young black
> militants
> > who were renouncing non-violence. Or that they would need arms to defend
> > their homes and stores and neighbourhoods against black rioters. Or that
> > they would need weapons to protect themselves on the streets, subways,
> > jogging paths, and in underground garages against non-white muggers and
> > rapists.
> >
>
> If you want to make up your own fantasy history, sure. But the motives you
> describe have a lot more to do with the imposition of gun control than with
> whites (or anyone else) organizing/arming in opposition to it.
>
>
> > There's plenty of anecdotal evidence to support this; it doesn't require
> > volumes of research as some have demanded in this discussion.
> >
>
> I trust that your reliance on "anecdotal evidence" will speak for itself,
> and requires no further elaboration by me. (The claims I could make backed
> by "anecdotal evidence"! My mind reels at the possibilities ...)
>
>
> > Your statement that the NRA "reacted most strongly to a racist backlash
> > against black gun ownership" is somewhat ambiguous, but I understand you
> to
> > mean they were part of the racist backlash, rather than opposed to it.
> >
>
> No, rather the opposite (although anti-racism doesn't seem to have been a
> major factor in its opposition to the new gun control policies imposed
> during the Black Power era). Apologies for my lack of clarity.
>
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