On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:55:51 -0400, Cliff wrote:

Like those ~ 8 to 1 odds *against* those with guns?

So a black person is 8 times more likely to be killed if they use a
gun to resist KKK members like yourself, than if they don't?

Yes Cliff, those gun control laws that you are so proud of were
designed to prevent blacks from purchasing firearms, with which they
could protect themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_law

And while you're reviewing history, be sure to look up the source of
the phase "Saturday Night Special", you racist troll...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special

"History of prohibition attempts"

"The earliest law prohibiting inexpensive handguns were enacted in
Tennessee, in the form of the "Army and Navy" law, passed in 1879,
shortly after the 14th amendment and Civil Rights Act; previous laws
had stated that black freedmen could not own or carry any manner of
firearm. The Army and Navy law prohibited the sale of "belt or pocket
pistols, or revolvers, or any other kind of pistols, except army or
navy pistols," which were prohibitively expensive for black freedmen
and poor whites to purchase.[16]"

Do-gooders created prohibition using good intentions and what did it
get us: A larger criminal element by criminalizing the average citizen.

Why are they criminals? Why do they want to be?

So they want to be criminals, because you criminalized their firearm
ownership? If we criminalize the bearing of the name Cliff, and you
refuse to change your name, then you have admitted that you WANT to be
a criminal.

I'm sure that MLK would agree with your assessment of civil
disobedience...

Retief