tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post1629489691996661484..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Martin Luther King and “A Right Delayed” Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-1586512487304788052015-04-23T15:31:16.228-05:002015-04-23T15:31:16.228-05:00See Charles Cobb's This Nonviolent Stuff'l...See Charles Cobb's <i>This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible</i> http://www.amazon.com/This-Nonviolent-Stuffll-Get-Killed/dp/0465033105. Cobb was a civil rights activist back then, and describes having trouble opening a door in Dr. King's house because of the number of guns behind the door.Clayton Cramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-71986848161575539092013-09-18T01:15:28.253-05:002013-09-18T01:15:28.253-05:00Great article - lucid clarification of the CJ Warr...Great article - lucid clarification of the CJ Warren role - its a tangled, twisting landscape to maintain accurate attribution with a number of King's phrases. Thanks! Web Hutchins www.civicsforall.orgWeb Hutchinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-78286119215717539612013-08-18T22:53:34.264-05:002013-08-18T22:53:34.264-05:00In a speech after the assassination of John F. Ken...In a speech after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, King included “our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim” among the failings of American society. So his views on gun ownership might have changed after 1956.<br /><br />As I wrote above, many political debaters try to invoke King today, even those who would probably have opposed him completely during his lifetime. <br /><br />Historically, his life seems like a poor argument for the notion that owning guns keeps one safe from violence and crime. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-37790671008992370382013-08-17T19:14:25.043-05:002013-08-17T19:14:25.043-05:00Great article, just a quick point.
Dr. King may h...Great article, just a quick point.<br /><br />Dr. King may have been a pacifist, but he was not against the right to self defense or firearms ownership.<br /><br />William Worthy, a journalist attending the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who interviewed King several times, made note of his extensive collection of firearms.<br /><br />In 1956, after his house was firebombed, he applied for a concealed carry permit, which was denied by the white local law enforcement - another example of how the 2nd Amendment was often denied to blacks in the segregation era south, although it remained little changed from the French <i>Code Noir</i> of 1685.Tangonoreply@blogger.com