On Tolerance.org today is a piece about school integration activist Daisy Bates. Part of it relates her family's problem with death threats: "...[her] house — and Bates herself — became the target of white segregationist hatred, vandalism and even death threats. Daisy and L.C. Bates were branded 'two of the most radical people in Arkansas.'
"'It took many weeks for me to become accustomed to seeing revolvers lying on the tables in my own home... and shotguns, loaded with buckshot, standing ready near the doors,' Bates would write later in her memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock."
Here is a very good demonstration of why the common man, but especially the socially disadvantaged and politically disfavored, should not have his right to own defensive weapons infringed. Courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which runs Tolerance.org. :-)
