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Originally Posted by Oerets
My point was a broad one, implying that if OTW's were to march with arms shouting support for 2nd amendment rights. Acting like the White Nationalists I don't think it they would be looked at the same way.
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You are, of course, correct. Back in the '60's, white folks freaked out over pictures of armed Black Panthers and convinced Gov. Ronald Reagan to pass strict gun controls in California.
Throughout the late 1960s, the militant black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of California’s gun laws to underscore their political statements about the subjugation of African-Americans. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for black people to arm themselves.”
The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions...
In contrast to the NRA’s rigid opposition to gun control in today’s America, the organization fought alongside the government for stricter gun regulations in the 1960s. This was part of an effort to keep guns out of the hands of African-Americans as racial tensions in the nation grew.
https://www.history.com/news/black-p...rt-mulford-act