Dick Of The Week

In a breathtaking display of tortured reasoning, Larry Elder explains how the gun control movement is the product of racism:

Not that Moore cares, but it was America's gun-control movement that sprouted from racist soil. Infamous Chief Justice Roger Taney, of Dred Scott fame, wrote that if blacks were "entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens . . . (i)t would give persons of the (N)egro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one state of the union, the right . . . to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all of this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, and inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the state . . . "

Any fool can see that this is not an argument for gun control, since Taney believes that any American citizen has "the right ... to keep and carry arms whereever they went." Rather, it's an argument to deny American citizenship to black people, on the ground that they are inferior. It has nothing to do with gun control, or the gun control movement. There isn't a gun control organization in this country which was founded on the principle of denying guns to African-Americans, and there isn't one which advocates (or which has ever advocated) that gun control laws should apply differently to members of different races.