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X_Digger

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Mon Nov-02-09 07:54 PM
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6. Ahh, revisionist history rears it's ugly head..

'Gun control' was a rethuglican plank against blacks, minorities, communists/socialists, union / pro-labor agitators until the late 60's.

Then the high profile killings of JFK, MLK, RFK gave the more authoritarian voices in the party a new cause.

Check out some of the newspaper articles surrounding New York's 'Sullivan Act', the congressional debates surrounding 1934's National Firearms Act, and compare to the 1968 Gun Control Act. (The lists of those in support switched from (R)s to (D)s.)

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