The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 111 - NRA： America’s #1 Civil Rights Defenders

00:00:00.320 Cynical Democrat politicians who failed at every level to prevent the high school shooting 0.81

00:00:04.740 in Parkland, Florida, are now excusing everybody who had anything to do with preventing the

00:00:10.520 shooting and placing all of the blame on the NRA, which is a civil rights organization

00:00:15.660 that had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting.

00:00:18.220 This is par for the course for Democrats who have long pushed gun control to oppress black

00:00:22.840 people and other minorities and really just all the rest of us.

00:00:26.040 We will analyze the racist history of gun control and the real purpose of the Second Amendment.

00:00:30.640 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:40.140 This show might as well just be retitled The NRA is Great and a Wonderful, Beautiful Thing,

00:00:45.160 a 40-minute defense of the NRA.

00:00:48.400 But before we get to that, before we get to that, this is one of my favorite topics.

00:00:51.520 I have been glued to Twitter all weekend because I've just been defending the NRA and the right

00:00:55.760 to keep and bear arms because, as Ronald Reagan pointed out, it's not that our liberal friends 0.94

00:00:59.700 are ignorant. 0.89

00:01:00.220 It's just they know so many things that aren't. 0.99

00:01:01.940 So they have this issue completely backwards, exactly upside down, as they frequently do.

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00:04:11.820 Okay.

00:04:12.820 The NRA is under fire.

00:04:14.820 And these kids, you know the kids from Florida who are being prostituted by CNN?

00:04:19.760 They are pushing this very, very hard.

00:04:22.420 And it isn't working, by the way.

00:04:24.540 But it's working for somebody.

00:04:25.540 It's working for the NRA.

00:04:26.320 My entire Twitter feed for the past several days has been people posting pictures that

00:04:31.320 they're signing up for the NRA.

00:04:32.740 I'm already a life member of the NRA.

00:04:34.720 If I were, I'd be, I could be a double life member.

00:04:36.740 If I were a cat, I'd get eight more life memberships.

00:04:39.120 I hope the NRA is giving CNN a cut here because they're clearly cleaning up and the CNN keeps

00:04:45.420 pushing these kids.

00:04:46.460 They keep prostituting these kids. 0.75

00:04:47.980 I think their 15 minutes is running out.

00:04:50.360 I kind of feel bad for them when I, they're 17 years old. 1.00

00:04:53.560 When I was 17, like David Hogg, I thought and said a lot of very stupid things. 0.99

00:04:59.820 Unlike David Hogg, the adults in my life didn't prostitute me on CNN and really probably screw 0.98

00:05:06.120 up my professional future.

00:05:08.060 And some of my personal life, they're, but for the grace of God, go I.

00:05:11.180 I really do kind of feel for these kids, even though they're very annoying and they

00:05:14.280 don't know anything and they keep calling people murderers and they're really saying

00:05:18.000 terrible things on television. 1.00

00:05:19.140 I do feel for them, they're idiot kids. 1.00

00:05:21.920 They know they're teenagers. 1.00

00:05:22.920 Teenagers say stupid things all the time. 1.00

00:05:25.100 That's the definition of a teenager. 1.00

00:05:26.880 Now that the main kid that you see, the telegenic one, David Hogg, he's, he's now moving on to

00:05:31.980 push education or something.

00:05:33.360 I think because he knows his 15 minutes are up.

00:05:35.420 He just sent out a tweet.

00:05:36.360 He said, here's a radical idea.

00:05:38.220 How about we don't spend money on arming teachers? 0.91

00:05:40.480 We spend it instead educating students in STEM so people can do more cool stuff and we'll be

00:05:47.460 able to create jobs and renewable, clean and independent American energy like wind and solar.

00:05:52.380 I don't know how, I don't know what he's going to throw in next.

00:05:54.400 Maybe he'll start talking about abortion or something.

00:05:56.160 Yesterday, his mission was to make schools safe.

00:05:58.540 Now it's to increase science funding, which by the way, isn't an either or.

00:06:02.580 He can, you know, he's just moving on.

00:06:04.520 It's the slate of Democrat talking points because he wants to squeeze out another minute on

00:06:08.280 television.

00:06:09.200 He clearly likes the camera.

00:06:10.300 He wants to be on camera.

00:06:11.240 Who can blame him?

00:06:11.980 You know, he's like, he wants to be on camera.

00:06:13.540 That's true for a lot of people, but this is really backfiring.

00:06:17.460 He's now blaming the NRA.

00:06:19.200 A lot of these other kids are blaming the NRA, Republican politicians who defend civil

00:06:23.460 liberties through the shooting.

00:06:25.020 They're implying that they're murderers.

00:06:26.440 This is overreaching and it's really wearing thin.

00:06:29.060 I don't want to criticize these teenagers. 1.00

00:06:31.180 They're just idiot teenagers. 1.00

00:06:32.700 That's fine. 1.00

00:06:33.000 I don't care.

00:06:34.140 I do criticize CNN for prostituting them and the adults in their lives for prostituting

00:06:38.340 them.

00:06:38.680 It's really wearing thin guys.

00:06:40.720 So I don't know.

00:06:41.380 I guess keep it up.

00:06:42.140 I guess keep it up.

00:06:42.740 It'll only help conservatives.

00:06:44.460 We were told now by these kids and by CNN and by everyone else that we don't need guns

00:06:50.140 ourselves because law enforcement will protect us.

00:06:53.000 But of course, in this case, law enforcement failed at every level here.

00:06:55.960 It failed all the way as high as the FBI, which received tips, didn't follow up.

00:06:59.160 And it certainly failed at the sheriff's level where deputies waited while this crazy

00:07:03.760 shooter was blowing people to bits and he was waiting outside with a gun because he was 0.99

00:07:08.220 too cowardly to go in.

00:07:09.300 Here is the sheriff, Sheriff Scott Israel, avoiding all blame whatsoever. 0.77

00:07:12.820 Jake, I could only take responsibility for what I knew about.

00:07:18.220 I exercise as my due diligence.

00:07:20.760 I've given amazing leadership to this agency.

00:07:23.960 Amazing leadership.

00:07:24.460 I've worked.

00:07:26.060 Amazing leadership.

00:07:27.360 I also love he says, I can only take responsibility for what I knew about.

00:07:31.660 You should have known about more.

00:07:33.620 There were how many complaints, how many dozens of complaints about these kids?

00:07:36.660 He said, well, I didn't know.

00:07:37.660 Right. 0.70

00:07:37.900 You didn't know because you're a terrible sheriff. 0.99

00:07:39.480 You didn't know because you're awful at running your sheriff's office. 0.96

00:07:42.320 That's the pro that's all I can.

00:07:43.680 If I didn't know, I can't take responsibility.

00:07:45.580 You can take responsibility for negligence, at least negligence, maybe more.

00:07:49.480 And I got to tell you, if you haven't seen that whole Jake Tapper interview, it's worth

00:07:52.220 watching.

00:07:52.580 I'm very mean to Jake Tapper because Jake Tapper has become a mean girl who carries water for 0.93

00:07:57.080 Democrats.

00:07:57.960 He did that awful town hall the other night and he allowed those teenagers to call Marco Rubio

00:08:02.900 a mass murderer.

00:08:04.220 That was really awful.

00:08:05.060 But this Tapper was great.

00:08:06.160 This was the good old Tapper.

00:08:07.360 I don't know where that guy's been, but when Jake Tapper wants to be, he can be a journalist

00:08:11.460 and I wish he would do this more often.

00:08:13.840 The interview was very good.

00:08:15.380 This brings us to the really bizarre point.

00:08:17.200 Lefties are comparing gun control, gun control to the civil rights movement.

00:08:21.280 They are opposing the NRA, an organization whose sole purpose is to defend civil rights.

00:08:27.180 They're calling that the civil rights movement.

00:08:29.180 Here's Oprah. 0.73

00:08:30.480 It's a proud moment.

00:08:32.220 It's an evolving moment for our country.

00:08:34.340 The same thing happened, as you know, back in the 50s and 60s for the civil rights movement.

00:08:40.160 Young people said, we will not tolerate what our ancestors have tolerated.

00:08:47.100 We have had enough and we're willing to fight for it and willing to do march in the streets

00:08:52.600 for it and if necessary, die for it.

00:08:55.000 The activist Ruby Hall agrees.

00:08:57.120 Ruby Hall said, when I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school,

00:09:01.180 I think that should be the next civil rights movement, you know, is to ban the assault weapons

00:09:05.720 so that our babies can be safe.

00:09:07.660 Inigo Montoya, your reaction?

00:09:09.260 You keep using that word.

00:09:11.020 I don't think it means what you think it means.

00:09:12.840 That's a great point, Inigo.

00:09:15.900 That is a great point.

00:09:17.100 They keep using the phrase civil rights, but what they really mean is they want to deprive

00:09:21.660 us of our civil rights.

00:09:22.840 They're saying, we support civil rights and we support civil rights so much that we're

00:09:26.540 going to take away one of your most basic civil rights.

00:09:29.640 We should clear this up.

00:09:30.820 This is a civil rights issue, but Oprah is on the wrong side of the civil rights issue. 1.00

00:09:36.040 If this were the 1960s, she would be on the side of George Wallace.

00:09:38.600 She would be on the side, if this were the 1860s, she'd be on the side of the Democrats 0.59

00:09:43.100 then too, the ones wearing the hoods.

00:09:45.420 This is a civil rights issue.

00:09:47.360 The right to keep and bear arms is a civil right.

00:09:49.920 It is a constitutionally protected civil right and it's a civil right that throughout history

00:09:56.740 has been denied black people so that whites could oppress them.

00:10:01.480 This has happened for centuries.

00:10:03.240 The NRA exists to protect that civil right against all sorts of tyranny and especially

00:10:08.540 to protect minorities who for centuries have regularly seen their civil rights trampled

00:10:12.880 on.

00:10:13.360 The NRA, here's just a brief history of the NRA, a brief history of the racist gun control

00:10:18.000 laws in this country and why anybody who's concerned with civil rights, anybody who's

00:10:21.940 concerned with racial equality should vehemently oppose gun control.

00:10:26.720 The NRA was founded in 1871.

00:10:28.400 It is the oldest continuously operating civil rights organization and the largest and best

00:10:33.940 funded lobbying organization in the United States.

00:10:36.760 Now, it's well-funded.

00:10:38.780 Why is it well-funded?

00:10:39.800 Because people like our civil rights. 0.83

00:10:41.560 We like our civil rights.

00:10:43.020 There's this insane suggestion now on the left because they realize Americans like our

00:10:47.680 guns and we like our freedom.

00:10:48.940 So they say, well, the NRA, they don't really represent gun owners.

00:10:52.280 They don't really represent civil rights advocates.

00:10:54.200 They just represent the gun makers as though there's a difference.

00:10:59.280 I have news for you.

00:11:00.820 The gun makers and the gun owners have a few things in common.

00:11:04.120 We like guns, we like freedom, and we don't like gun control.

00:11:08.180 We're on the same side of this thing. 0.99

00:11:09.900 It isn't those darn gun makers. 0.99

00:11:13.160 They keep making guns that I like and buy. 1.00

00:11:15.900 Those monsters, I hate their lobby. 0.89

00:11:18.320 We're on the same side. 0.98

00:11:19.080 It's the same lobby.

00:11:19.980 We have the same agenda here, which is to protect civil rights. 0.92

00:11:23.460 By the way, even if we're talking about the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s,

00:11:27.260 gun control has been the single most important tool of white supremacists for centuries.

00:11:32.380 The first gun control law in American history was passed not in the 20th century, not in

00:11:37.420 the 19th century, but in the 17th century, in Virginia, in 1640.

00:11:41.920 That gun control law specifically prohibited blacks from owning guns.

00:11:46.360 That was it. 0.78

00:11:47.540 And not just slaves.

00:11:48.660 You might say, well, slaves couldn't own guns because they didn't have a lot of other

00:11:51.380 rights.

00:11:51.800 It also prevented freed men, men who were not slaves, from owning guns as well because the

00:11:57.460 whites in Virginia in 1640 did not want to tolerate blacks having guns.

00:12:01.220 What would happen if they had guns?

00:12:02.600 Who knows?

00:12:03.460 After Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Virginia in 1931, that state prohibited even free blacks

00:12:09.840 to keep or carry any fire lock of any kind, any military weapon, or any powder or lead.

00:12:16.100 Now, even before that was passed into law, before the Nat Turner rebellion in 1831, even

00:12:22.900 before that, a free black family was found possessing a lead shot, which it was using as scale weights. 0.93

00:12:29.300 This family didn't have any gunpowder.

00:12:31.460 It didn't have any weapons whatsoever.

00:12:33.480 Nevertheless, Virginian mobs descended on this family and they debated executing the owner

00:12:38.600 of just the lead, just being used for scale weights.

00:12:42.640 In 1834, the Tennessee legislature amended its state constitution.

00:12:47.500 The state constitution previously had said the free men of this state have a right to keep

00:12:52.100 and to bear arms for their common defense.

00:12:54.060 They then changed that provision of the state constitution to say the free white men of this

00:13:00.140 state have a right to keep and bear arms for their common defense.

00:13:03.400 Just a subtle linguistic shift, but it deprived a huge percentage of the population from keeping

00:13:10.600 arms.

00:13:11.340 Now we get to the Dred Scott decision.

00:13:13.400 The Dred Scott decision occurred in 1857.

00:13:16.620 Dred Scott determined that any black person whose ancestors were slaves could not be an American

00:13:22.500 citizen.

00:13:22.900 This was one of the regularly cited as the worst, and certainly one of the worst decisions in

00:13:29.280 American history.

00:13:30.780 That decision hinged on the question of gun ownership.

00:13:34.220 So it obviously predated the civil war only by three years, but the chief justice in the Dred Scott

00:13:39.660 decision wrote, it would give them the full liberty to keep and carry arms wherever they went.

00:13:45.480 This was a major aspect of Dred Scott.

00:13:47.500 If they were just promising citizenship rights to black Americans without that provision to

00:13:56.460 actually protect them, maybe the Dred Scott decision would have gone a different way.

00:14:00.140 But it isn't just words, words, words, which can be trampled over by a powerful and armed

00:14:06.220 government.

00:14:07.780 That citizenship in the United States also gives you the right to protect yourself.

00:14:11.260 In many, in many cases, uniquely or in a uniquely American way, after the Confederate surrender

00:14:16.900 in 1865, after the Civil War was over, defeated Southerners very quickly rounded up all the

00:14:22.680 guns from freed blacks.

00:14:24.920 Frederick Douglass, a good Republican, implored the federal government to stop the state and

00:14:29.980 local governments from infringing on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

00:14:34.480 State and local governments would just round all of these up.

00:14:37.100 And this is an important distinction, which we're going to talk about tomorrow when we

00:14:40.500 analyze the Second Amendment.

00:14:41.940 Who has the right to keep and bear arms?

00:14:43.660 Is it the state?

00:14:44.380 Is it the federal government?

00:14:45.260 Is it the people?

00:14:46.480 The amendment is clear and that distinction really matters.

00:14:49.400 Frederick Douglass actually insisted, though, that until blacks were able to keep guns,

00:14:54.540 the work of the abolitionists was not finished.

00:14:57.460 Consider that.

00:14:58.320 Now we're being told by lightly educated people and people with a nefarious political agenda,

00:15:05.240 an anti-civil rights political agenda on television, that it's a racial equality issue to take

00:15:11.560 away all of their guns.

00:15:12.720 Frederick Douglass, who was not lightly educated, Frederick Douglass, who was a genius, knew much

00:15:17.380 better.

00:15:17.700 He knew it was exactly the opposite.

00:15:19.540 In the Texas Supreme Court case, Cockrum v. State, 1959, the court recognized the right

00:15:25.260 to carry defensive arms, both in the Second Amendment and in the Texas Bill of Rights, an individual

00:15:30.480 right to keep your guns.

00:15:31.860 They recognized this in, I'm sorry, 1859.

00:15:35.060 Yet, just a handful of years later, in 1872, the Texas Supreme Court denied that there was

00:15:40.840 any right to carry any weapon for self-defense in either constitution, in either the federal

00:15:45.720 constitution or in the state constitution.

00:15:48.080 And do you know how they defended that decision?

00:15:49.860 They didn't.

00:15:50.500 They offered absolutely no explanation whatsoever.

00:15:53.060 I wonder what changed between 1859 and 1872.

00:15:56.400 1859, one year before the Civil War and 1872, seven years after the Civil War.

00:16:02.780 What changed about the ability to keep and bear arms?

00:16:06.500 So, the NRA, how was it founded?

00:16:08.100 It was founded in 1871 by Union soldiers, not by those nefarious racists, by the people

00:16:13.960 who fought a bloody, bloody war to free the slaves.

00:16:16.440 I was first charged in New York in 1871.

00:16:18.800 The first president of the NRA was the Union General, Ambrose Burnside, fresh off of freeing

00:16:24.840 all the slaves and reuniting the Union.

00:16:27.580 The NRA's eighth president was U.S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, president of both the United

00:16:32.500 States and the NRA, and a great defender of civil rights and defeater of Southern secessionist

00:16:37.420 slavers.

00:16:37.940 The NRA was founded, actually, not initially just to lobby Congress or lobby for good gun

00:16:44.380 laws, because gun control was a regional issue that clearly at this time was used mostly

00:16:48.940 to oppress blacks. 0.51

00:16:50.040 It was actually founded because the Union troops were terrible shots. 0.95

00:16:53.020 So, the Union troops were firing something like a thousand rifle rounds for each Confederate

00:16:57.260 they hit.

00:16:57.780 They weren't very good at shooting.

00:16:59.580 So, it was founded to give people like the Union troops who defended ordered liberty and

00:17:04.240 defended human dignity better training.

00:17:06.580 Now, there is this crazy aspect since the shooting in Florida.

00:17:11.500 People are saying what we need to do is have mandatory training.

00:17:15.420 So, they want all these things.

00:17:16.420 They want to ban certain guns.

00:17:17.760 They want to raise the age.

00:17:19.500 They basically just want fewer people to have guns.

00:17:21.320 Then they say we need mandatory gun training.

00:17:23.180 This doesn't make any sense at all.

00:17:25.200 What you're saying is that the way to prevent a mass shooting like we saw in Florida is to

00:17:29.260 train the people to be better shots.

00:17:31.360 They want to train mass shooters to be better at shooting guns.

00:17:33.740 It doesn't make any sense.

00:17:34.640 First of all, the NRA already offers training and it has for 150 years.

00:17:39.020 How would mandatory training be the solution to mass shooters?

00:17:42.600 Mandatory training for a lot of other people, giving guns to more people, allowing guns to

00:17:46.900 be easier to be had, and having the good guys train to use guns.

00:17:49.860 That would be good.

00:17:50.520 But really, we should bar all the bad guys from training in general.

00:17:54.260 It's a total deflection though.

00:17:55.520 It's just one of these empty points.

00:17:57.280 It's they throw spaghetti at the wall because they don't like guns.

00:18:00.200 They don't want you to have guns and they're going to use any argument, no matter how tenuous

00:18:04.800 it is, to try to take guns away from you. 0.62

00:18:07.680 Do you remember Democrats who rode around in white sheets lynching the blacks? 0.73

00:18:11.860 They were only able to do that because white Democrats had already taken the guns away from 0.96

00:18:17.160 blacks. 0.68

00:18:17.520 The special report of the Paris Anti-Slavery Conference of 1867 found as much.

00:18:23.640 They concluded that freedmen in the South, quote, were forbidden to own or bear firearms

00:18:28.540 and thus were rendered defenseless against assault.

00:18:32.180 Speaking of very important Supreme Court decisions, Albion Tourgier, the civil rights attorney who

00:18:37.780 represented Plessy in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.

00:18:41.720 Plessy v. Ferguson, you'll remember, upheld segregation as separate but equal.

00:18:45.840 That attorney, Tourgier, pointed out that where the KKK took control, quote, almost universally,

00:18:51.940 the first thing done was to disarm the Negroes and leave them defenseless. 1.00

00:18:55.760 We see this, by the way, in totalitarian regimes around the world.

00:18:59.140 It's almost cliche to refer to Hitler in this regard, but it's true of totalitarian regimes 1.00

00:19:03.880 everywhere.

00:19:04.740 They take away the guns.

00:19:05.660 That's the first thing they do because the Second Amendment exists to protect the First 0.56

00:19:08.840 Amendment.

00:19:09.100 The Second Amendment exists to protect all of the other rights because ultimately, if people 0.92

00:19:14.120 are going to trample on your rights, you've got to defend them and you've got to defend

00:19:17.480 yourself.

00:19:19.080 Fortunately, despite the Democrats and the KKK running roughshod over the civil rights, particularly

00:19:25.200 black people, Republicans came to the defense of civil rights.

00:19:28.340 They passed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill of 1865 to protect the rights of freed blacks.

00:19:33.500 They passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Civil Rights Act of 1870, which guaranteed

00:19:39.940 everybody the right of self-defense.

00:19:42.440 Then that brings us to the Anti-Klan Act of 1871.

00:19:45.700 But you're telling me I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube?

00:19:48.480 Is that what I have to?

00:19:49.020 That's awful.

00:19:50.180 I already said goodbye to YouTube.

00:19:51.420 I've already said my goodbyes to YouTube a long time ago, but we have to say goodbye

00:19:54.400 to Facebook.

00:19:56.600 And if somehow you made it and are seeing us on YouTube, please stick around.

00:20:00.980 Please try to figure out a way to let everybody else in and shut down the censors at YouTube

00:20:05.800 who are not allowing anybody to watch this show, this awful show, this bigoted show that

00:20:10.520 talks about civil rights and the history of legislation in the United States.

00:20:14.100 How awful.

00:20:14.880 Of course, they have to censor it.

00:20:16.060 If you're on Facebook, you've got to go to dailywire.com right now.

00:20:19.280 We have so much more to talk about, the Klan and more Democrat atrocities that have happened 0.60

00:20:24.880 in history.

00:20:25.740 But if you want to do that, you've got to go to dailywire.com.

00:20:28.240 It's $10 a month or $100 for an annual membership.

00:20:31.100 You get me.

00:20:31.640 You get the Andrew Klavan show.

00:20:32.580 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:20:33.720 You get the conversation.

00:20:34.720 Next time, we're going to have the big boss, Ben Shapiro.

00:20:37.440 You're going to ask him whatever questions you want.

00:20:39.400 If you're a member, everybody can watch.

00:20:41.320 Few can ask questions.

00:20:42.520 Many are called.

00:20:43.440 Few are chosen.

00:20:44.700 You get to ask all of us questions in the mailbag.

00:20:47.020 And we're going to be doing that on Thursday.

00:20:48.340 So get your questions in.

00:20:49.440 But again, none of that matters.

00:20:51.300 Nobody's here for that.

00:20:52.360 What you're all here for is this. 0.96

00:20:54.360 Because every time Democrats prostitute some child on television, and every time they recite

00:21:01.360 the same tired, incoherent, anti-American, anti-constitutional lines to take away our

00:21:07.240 guns, another person joins the NRA.

00:21:10.360 Another person joins the NRA, and I get another delicious eight ounces of salty leftist tears.

00:21:15.400 And they are so good.

00:21:16.340 I was gorging myself this weekend.

00:21:18.540 I was truly a glutton.

00:21:19.580 I probably should go to confession for it.

00:21:21.300 Thankfully, I have a lot of these leftist tears tumblers, the only FDA-approved vessel to

00:21:25.540 store salty and delicious leftist tears.

00:21:27.500 Go to dailywire.com to get it.

00:21:28.980 We'll be right back.

00:21:41.320 Where were we?

00:21:42.080 We were on the Anti-Klan Act.

00:21:43.740 It's a good place to come in.

00:21:45.260 Thank you again, Republicans.

00:21:46.200 The original draft of the Anti-Klan Act of 1871, which Republican President and NRA President

00:21:52.660 U.S. Grant shepherded through Congress, made it a federal felony to deprive any citizen

00:21:57.800 of the United States of any arms he possessed for the defense of his person, his family,

00:22:02.540 or his property.

00:22:03.580 Not any white person like the Democrats wanted.

00:22:06.320 Any person that was shepherded by NRA President Ulysses S. Grant and Republican President.

00:22:13.320 Kansas Senator Samuel Pomeroy described three indispensable, quote, safeguards of liberty under

00:22:18.060 our form of government.

00:22:19.320 That's the sanctity of the home, the right to vote, and the right to bear arms.

00:22:23.660 There was this guy on Twitter, Stephen Metz, who referred to me and all of my fellow defenders

00:22:28.280 of the Second Amendment as gun fetishists.

00:22:31.200 Do we also have vote fetishists? 0.88

00:22:33.720 Those people who think we should keep the right to vote.

00:22:35.920 Are those vote fetishists?

00:22:37.300 Are there free speech fetishists also?

00:22:39.700 What he really means is civil rights advocates, but he's trying to turn it and make it seem

00:22:44.940 like all we want to do is, we just like the technical aspects of guns.

00:22:49.340 Technical aspects of guns are great.

00:22:50.620 Freedom is better, and they are there to protect our freedom.

00:22:54.100 Racist Democrats now kept getting around gun control laws, which technically had to be

00:22:58.280 race neutral.

00:22:59.400 After the Civil War, after the 14th Amendment, these gun laws had to be race neutral.

00:23:03.240 So those Democrats got craftier.

00:23:05.240 They would frequently ban inexpensive guns while allowing guns that whites already owned.

00:23:10.560 So these poor blacks who had recently been freed just couldn't afford the guns.

00:23:15.400 Then it was practically impossible for them.

00:23:17.000 And Ohio Supreme Court justice acknowledged that these laws were intended to, quote, entirely

00:23:22.620 disarm the Negro. 1.00

00:23:23.880 And it wasn't just blacks who were targets and victims of Democrats' gun control policies, 0.83

00:23:27.820 and it didn't just happen in the South.

00:23:29.920 In 1920, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Mexican man for concealed carry

00:23:36.980 of a handgun.

00:23:38.040 Now, that's fine, I suppose, if you want to convict him for that.

00:23:40.760 The trouble was that the Mexican man was asleep in his bed during the time of the alleged infraction.

00:23:45.780 So he just wanted to arrest this guy for having a gun.

00:23:48.520 Basically, anybody in Ohio could have been arrested for this because, I guess, he was

00:23:53.080 concealed carrying it in his dreams or something.

00:23:55.340 Jim Crow laws became the foundation of modern gun control in America. 0.95

00:23:59.320 We now think there are books that the left and right, so the new Jim Crow, and they decry

00:24:04.620 all of these good things for freedom.

00:24:07.020 And they don't talk about how Jim Crow is the foundation of gun control.

00:24:10.740 It started in the South, but it spread north in the early 20th century.

00:24:13.820 In New York, it was aimed at Italians and Jews.

00:24:17.100 And I will say, as someone of Italian heritage in America, fair enough.

00:24:21.140 That's fair.

00:24:21.920 The Italians, they did use guns a little loose in New York.

00:24:25.220 So, okay, fair enough.

00:24:26.580 They also aimed these laws at labor agitators in California and at blacks who defended themselves

00:24:31.540 in race riots in Missouri and Michigan.

00:24:34.340 As Ann Coulter described it in 2012, the NRA was the sole organization to come to the defense

00:24:40.200 of Roger F. Williams.

00:24:42.260 Roger F. Williams was a World War II Marine veteran who returned to his hometown of Monroe,

00:24:47.980 North Carolina to find the Ku Klux Klan riding high.

00:24:52.500 So, the NRA granted him a charter to start a chapter.

00:24:56.040 When he got back there, the Klan was truly terrorizing blacks in Monroe.

00:25:00.300 He asks the NRA to start a chapter.

00:25:02.700 The NRA grants it.

00:25:03.760 He founded the Black Armed Guard.

00:25:05.220 And guess what happened?

00:25:06.360 The Klan cut it out.

00:25:08.080 The Klan lost its stranglehold on the town.

00:25:10.360 So weird.

00:25:10.900 When you give victims guns, all of a sudden the victimizers get a little bit more careful 1.00

00:25:15.100 before they start running, you know, in their stupid capes and sheets. 0.99

00:25:20.680 John Salter, a professor and the chief organizer of the NAACP's Jackson Movement during the early 1.00

00:25:26.240 1960s, wrote, quote,

00:25:27.760 No one knows what kind of massive racist retaliation would have been directed against grassroots black

00:25:33.580 people had the black community not had a healthy measure of firearms within it.

00:25:38.180 No one knows. 0.98

00:25:39.160 That's not some wicked white conservative man in 2018. 0.88

00:25:43.360 That's a major civil rights leader.

00:25:45.080 On the eve of the NAACP's 1959 National Convention, the group resolved, quote,

00:25:50.220 We do not deny but reaffirm the right of individual and collective self-defense against unlawful

00:25:57.180 assaults.

00:25:58.840 No less a peace activist than Martin Luther King Jr. agreed to that.

00:26:03.560 He actually went so far as to support violence exercised in self-defense, which he called moral

00:26:08.840 and legal in all societies.

00:26:11.100 And he pointed out that it was not even opposed by Gandhi.

00:26:14.240 So this is an example of the left perverting history and values beyond recognition.

00:26:18.700 They always said, but Martin Luther King couldn't possibly have advocated self-defense.

00:26:23.460 He'd like just like peace, right?

00:26:25.220 They forget that he clearly did in 1959.

00:26:28.480 They point out that Jesus said, turn the other cheek.

00:26:30.700 They seem to forget all of the other aspects of scripture where our Lord told his apostles

00:26:35.360 to sell their cloaks and buy swords.

00:26:37.940 They forget that he whipped money changers in the temple.

00:26:40.760 That wasn't just metaphorical.

00:26:42.080 He took out whips.

00:26:43.180 The logos made flesh.

00:26:44.820 He whipped them in the temple.

00:26:46.340 They forget these defenses of self-defense.

00:26:51.980 Now, for centuries, for centuries, Democrats have run roughshod over civil liberties and

00:26:59.040 particularly over the civil right to gun ownership without giving any reasons why. 0.51

00:27:04.480 It always comes down to emotional pleas with them.

00:27:07.220 That's what it's always about emotion. 0.97

00:27:09.880 Think of what the blacks would do if they had guns. 1.00

00:27:12.560 Say, well, but the Constitution says they have to have guns. 0.98

00:27:14.580 No, but think of what they would do.

00:27:16.160 Think of the white women. 1.00

00:27:17.420 Think of the children.

00:27:18.340 It's all the same fact-free demagoguery.

00:27:20.800 They don't actually point to the realities of gun ownership.

00:27:24.380 They don't point to the legalities of gun ownership.

00:27:26.720 They say, oh, but think of this. 0.96

00:27:28.040 What are you, a monster? 1.00

00:27:29.260 What, you don't like white women? 1.00

00:27:30.400 What, you don't like the little children that we're pimping out on CNN?

00:27:33.640 We're going to cover tomorrow the nuts and bolts of the Second Amendment itself.

00:27:37.360 We have an excellent guest on to discuss it.

00:27:39.360 Should I, no, I won't spoil the surprise, but a really nationwide leader to discuss this.

00:27:45.800 We will explain the history of the amendment.

00:27:47.460 We will explain the history of the right that it protects to keep and bear arms.

00:27:51.860 Why the Second Amendment is not about shooting deer with AR-15s.

00:27:55.740 Actually, you shouldn't shoot deer with AR-15s anyway.

00:27:58.080 It's not very humane.

00:27:59.760 It's not powerful enough to hunt deer.

00:28:01.760 And we'll explain why it's an individual right.

00:28:04.660 I want to leave you with this.

00:28:05.660 The left has no argument here.

00:28:07.720 There is no argument.

00:28:08.660 The Democrats have no argument.

00:28:10.940 It is the same fact-free emotional plea and demagoguery that they have been using for centuries.

00:28:16.820 They vilified blacks for exercising their rights.

00:28:18.980 They vilified Italians and Jews for doing it. 0.92

00:28:21.260 They vilified Mexicans for doing it.

00:28:23.000 All the while, they were defended.

00:28:24.860 Those people were defended.

00:28:26.600 The victims were defended by civil rights supporters like members of the NRA.

00:28:31.200 Now the much maligned NRA, again, by Democrats.

00:28:33.580 Now they're vilifying civil rights defenders themselves. 0.99

00:28:36.860 Imagine what they could do if these Democrats did succeed at disarming you.

00:28:41.800 We actually know what they could do because they did it to all of those groups that I just mentioned for centuries.

00:28:46.700 And it wasn't pretty.

00:28:48.180 To use a further historical example, a further back historical example,

00:28:52.100 the Persian king Xerxes demanded that the Spartans surrender their weapons.

00:28:56.440 And King Leonidas responded,

00:28:57.780 Come and take them.

00:29:01.060 The violent, bloody history of gun control should teach us to defend our constitutionally protected civil right

00:29:06.400 to self-defense with precisely the same seriousness and urgency.

00:29:11.380 Come and take them.

00:29:12.340 Come and take them.

00:29:13.000 I'm going to come and take those delicious leftist tears and put them in my Tumblr

00:29:15.420 because the news cycles have just gotten more and more outrageous.

00:29:19.600 And they are not going to get it.

00:29:20.900 They are not going to get it on this.

00:29:22.720 It's such a childish discussion.

00:29:23.980 That's why they use children to do it. 1.00

00:29:25.500 Okay, we will analyze the Second Amendment itself tomorrow.

00:29:28.820 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:29:31.040 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:29:32.220 Come back tomorrow.

00:29:33.060 We'll do it all again.

00:29:53.980 Hair and makeup is by Jesua Olvera.

00:29:56.840 Copyright Forward Publishing 2018.

The Michael Knowles Show - February 26, 2018

Ep. 111 - NRA： America’s #1 Civil Rights Defenders

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