Why do some claim guns cannot stop a tyrannical government when that did happen in the 1946 battle of Athens, Tennessee?
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Robert Clouse, lives in Cincinnati, OH
The 1946 Battle of Athens isn't the only time guns have been used against tyranny. The example is Robert Franklin Williams.
Robert F. Williams - Wikipedia
As a member of the NRA, he created the Black Armed guard.
He called the Monroe Chapter of the NRA the Black Armed Guard; it was made up of about 50–60 men, including some veterans like him. They were determined to defend the local black community from racist attacks.
Newtown was the black residential area of Monroe. In the summer of 1957, there were rumors that the KKK was going to attack the house of Dr. Albert Perry, a practicing physician and vice-president of the Monroe NAACP. Williams and his men of the Armed Guard went to Perry's house to defend it, fortifying it with sandbags. When numerous KKK members appeared and shot from their cars, Williams and his followers returned the fire, driving them away.
"After this clash the same city officials who said the Klan had a constitutional right to organize met in an emergency session and passed a city ordinance banning the Klan from Monroe without a special permit from the police chief."
Later, he used guns and his group to defend Freedom Riders working for civil rights in the South.
Around this time, a white couple from a nearby town drove into the black section of Monroe when other streets were closed by mobs because of protests at the county courthouse. They were stopped in the street by an angry crowd. For their safety, they were taken to Williams' home.
Williams initially told them that they were free to go, but he soon realized that the crowd would not grant safe passage. He kept the white couple in a house nearby until they were able to safely leave the neighborhood. North Carolina law enforcement accused Williams of having kidnapped the couple. He and his family fled the state with local law enforcement in pursuit.
When he returned and was trailed in 1975, North Carolina dropped the charges almost immediately.
Now you know why there were so many gun control laws created during the 1960's. Many states in the South passed gun control laws during the 1960's, and selectively enforced them against blacks in the South.
In 1956, after King’s house was bombed, King applied for a concealed carry permit in Alabama. The local police had discretion to determine who was a suitable person to carry firearms. King, a clergyman whose life was threatened daily, surely met the requirements of the law, but he was rejected nevertheless. At the time, the police used any wiggle room in the law to discriminate against African Americans. |
