Secretary of State nominee Dr. Condoleezza Rice is a big supporter of the second amendment, a commitment cultivated during her days growing up in Bull Conner's Birmingham, Alabama, when the shotgun wielded by her father was often the only thing that stood between her family and the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1963, racial violence was "turning her hometown into 'Bombingham' as Alabama"™s governor George Wallace fought a federal court order to integrate the city"™s schools," writes Rice biographer Antonia Felix.
In excerpts of her book "The Condoleezza Rice Story," reprinted in the London Sunday Times, Felix recounts:
"With the bombings came marauding groups of armed white vigilantes called 'nightriders,' who drove through black neighborhoods shooting and starting fires. [Condi's father] John Rice and his neighbors guarded the streets at night with shotguns.
"The memory of her father out on patrol lies behind Rice"™s opposition to gun control today. Had those guns been registered, she argues, Bull Connor would have had a legal right to take them away, thereby removing one of the black community"™s only means of defense."
"I have a sort of pure second amendment view of the right to bear arms," said the future Secretary of State.
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I remember reading that the first gun control laws were put on the books to keep the newly freed blacks from being able to protect themselves.
This may be correct. I don't know when or where the very first anti-gun law in the U.S. was passed. But I DO know that the notorious SULLIVAN LAW, which made it damn near impossible for anyone in NYC to get a pistol, was passed to "keep guns out of the hands of the undesireable elements - the Irish and the Italians!!
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Condi: Why I Support the Second Amendment
