If Blacks Had Guns, They Never Would Have Been Slaves

[PMartin37 161]

If the Blacks had guns, due to their superior athletic ability, wouldn't we white folk be picking the cotton, and they be living in the Colonial mansions?

Me thinks you are correct. They would've been sipping the mint julip. And the Indians would have been cooking venison burgers while the pale faces toiled away and sang the blues.

I think the plain fact of the matter is, guns were created under the pretext of "defense" but I think the majority of American history shows that guns were much more often used for aggressive actions. (with the exception of the revolution).

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

If a black man invented the internet (or anything else) it's only because they were allowed to get an education. Education was invented by white men in Stockholm in 1546!

I'm very glad that the nice white men allowed black men (and shockingly even women of all colors) to vote or we would have had President Romney's inauguration ceremony yesterday and how terrifying would that have been?

Al Gore invented the Internet . where have all of you been ?

You have to look at the whole picture. You're talking about a large group of displaced human beings coming over from a country polar opposite to where they ended up. Even if they had access to guns, what then? The laws were written against blacks, we weren't even classified as full human, only 3/4th. I surmise freedom, but after that, it would have been like a blind man in a dark room trying to find a black cat that ins't there.

Hence my comment it would not have been practical.

[scotinmass 588]

Al Gore invented the Internet . where have all of you been ?

Well he's not black so I rest my case.

[Dan and Judy 614]

If slavery hadn't been abolished in US and every kid in Newtown had his own slave with a gun, the whole massacre thing could have been avoided.