{"id":4205,"date":"2011-07-02T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/07\/02\/nra-ila-gives-cpd-superintenden\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:15:17","slug":"nra-ila-gives-cpd-superintenden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4205","title":{"rendered":"NRA-ILA Gives CPD Superintendent A History Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17347,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/sucking-up-to-father-pfleger.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17348,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nraila.org\\\/Legislation\\\/Read.aspx?ID=6969&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nraila.org\\\/Legislation\\\/Read.aspx&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Chicago Police Department Superintendent Gerry McCarthy <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/sucking-up-to-father-pfleger.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said that Federal gun laws were tantamount to &#8220;government sponsored racism&#8221;<\/a> in a speech at St. Sabina&#8217;s Catholic Church in Chicago. Recognizing that McCarthy had a poor education in history growing up in New York, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/Legislation\/Read.aspx?ID=6969&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NRA-ILA gives him a history lesson<\/a> on where the real connections between racism and gun control lie.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Chicago&#8217;s Top Cop: The Racist Roots of Gun Rights?<\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 01, 2011<\/p>\n<p>\nChicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, newly appointed by anti-gun Mayor Rahm Emanuel, has wasted no time in sharing his views on Chicagoans\u2019 individual right to keep and bear arms. Less than a month after his approval by the City Council, McCarthy attended a service at St. Sabina\u2019s Church (a parish led by anti-gun extremist Father Michael Pfleger) and made a speech claiming that a lack of restrictive gun control laws is \u201cgovernment sponsored racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those with a better understanding of history will find themselves confused trying to interpret McCarthy\u2019s logic, as decades of scholarship have proven just the opposite; that gun control, rather than its absence, has often been used as a means of government sponsored racism.<\/p>\n<p>In his 1995 Kansas Journal of Law &amp; Public Policy article, \u201cThe Racist Roots of Gun Control,\u201d Second Amendment scholar Clayton E. Cramer outlines the historical case that \u201cracism underlies gun control laws.\u201d Cramer notes that racist gun control in America stretches as far back as 1751 with a French law in the Louisiana territory that required colonists to \u201c\u2018[i]f necessary,\u2019 beat \u2018any black carrying any potential weapon, such as a cane.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Superintendent McCarthy might be excused for not looking that far back, he should certainly be aware of last year\u2019s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the case of McDonald v. Chicago.  In a concurring opinion in that case, Justice Clarence Thomas explained that in the years preceding the Civil War, \u201cMany legislatures amended their laws prohibiting slaves from carrying firearms to apply the prohibition to free blacks as well.\u201d After the Civil War, little improved.  Justice Thomas writes: \u201cSome States formally prohibited blacks from possessing firearms\u2026 Others enacted legislation prohibiting blacks from carrying firearms without a license, a restriction not imposed on whites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Reconstruction Era (and later) laws were less candid. For example, an 1870 Tennessee law barred the sale of all but the most expensive pistols, effectively disarming newly freed blacks and the poor.  New York\u2019s Sullivan Law of 1911, requiring a permit for handgun possession, was largely targeted at Italians and other disfavored immigrant groups. (That law is still on the books.)  And the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was denied a concealed carry permit in Alabama under a similar discretionary permitting law\u2014even after his house had been bombed.<\/p>\n<p>We suggest that in the future, Superintendent McCarthy might do a little more research before conflating respect for a fundamental individual right with its antithesis, government-sponsored racism.<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Police Department Superintendent Gerry McCarthy said that Federal gun laws were tantamount to &#8220;government sponsored racism&#8221; in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3169,45,92,1824],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gerry-mccarthy","tag-gun-control","tag-nra-ila","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}