Though not a consensus, many SCLC members, including such prominent figures as Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, were aware of inconspicuously armed SCLC agents who provided protection for civil rights leaders and other activists. On at least one occasion, a shootout erupted between racist attackers and black defenders from the SCLC. Throughout the South, NAACP members had pistols, shotguns and handguns in their homes and on their person, as did many SNCC members. [More]This is just one of the stories from today's Gun Rights Examiner column.
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ReplyDeleteGood stuff.
Even though the university campus where I was an undergrad in the mid '70s did not allow concealed carry, it did provide firearms instruction as a university sponsored/funded student activty (if you knew where to look). My NRA Basic Pistol Marksman course was taught by one of my university's Physics professor on a nearby campus of another college that had a pistol range located under the basketball court in the gymnasium building. The university provided the weapons, ammo, and targets free of charge.
ReplyDeleteWould I have preferred to have the choice of whether I carried a weapon legally on campus? Yes.