I heard of Philando Castile

Story:

The NRA’s internal split over Philando Castile
By Brian Fung July 9, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/09/the-nras-internal-revolt-over-philando-castile/

After a Minnesota police officer fatally shot a black man on Wednesday, gun control advocates weren’t the only ones criticizing the National Rifle Association. Some of the blowback was coming from within the organization.

The NRA is facing internal division as its members argue that the group did not do enough to defend gun owners’ rights by speaking out on behalf of Philando Castile of Falcon Heights, Minn., who was shot to death during a traffic stop.

Castile had a valid permit to carry a gun. He also reportedly informed the officer who shot him that he was armed in an attempt to head off a misunderstanding.

I heard of him from Mark Shea:

Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Gun Cult
March 1, 2018 by Mark Shea
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2018/03/racism-anti-semitism-gun-cult.html

He cites history of Georgia as evidence the gun rights have a history in slave patrols - as in white men patrolling against slave risings. Sounds like black slaves were a bad idea, like the Spartacus rising got permanent or sth?

At least black slaves in a white country.

Well, not quite every white country.

In Louisiana, while it was a French colony, much of the time a black freedman was treated equally with others, he also had same self defense rights as others, meaning, most of the time, he had gun rights. However, there was a time of setback. He was deprived of gun rights and he needed to show a document he had been legally freed. When was this setback? Under Louis XV, either the Regency or his personal rule, I think the Regency, and I don't intend to look it up for this quick reaction. Note well, black and white free man were subjects of the Kings of France and Navarre and were carrying guns and swords for self defense, not for "well ordered militias" (some of which would have been, as Mark Shea argues, slave patrols).

There is some sense in the old song, very popular in Sweden (and the most used music for dancing polka in gym class):

I come from Alabama
with a banjo on my knee
I'm gwine to Lou'siana
my Susannah for to see

Oh Susannah, oh don't you cry for me
For I'm gwine to Lou'siana my Susanna for to see!

The other direction would obviously have been less safe. At least for the banjo playing population or the main one.

Now, it seems from Mark Shea that little has changed since Chesterton visited the US. Republicans of the South (who were called Democrats back then) are racist, either making general bans (in his time on boose) intending to enforce them only on black men, or general licences, intending only white men to enjoy them (as in the tricks used to deprive black men of their vote). Democrats of the North (who were called Republicans back then) were fully bent on removing all this racism and in making it equally bad for everyone. Just a little quick note.

Oh, Minnesota is obviously not in Louisiana ... checking wiki ... and while part of Louisiana Purchase, a long way from Louisiana proper and probably not very Cajune. (OK, except Mardi Gras, Cajun food and Cajun festivals).

As for Mark Shea for one thing totally dissing the Confederacy and then not taking up any other example of weapons resisting bad rulers, how about Venice getting independence from Byzantium when tax collectors from Bosporus found Il Doge unwilling to pay for persecution of Catholics by the Iconoclasts like Shitname (yes, that is a real nickname for a Basileus, he shat in the baptismal font, which was a bad sign). Of course, that was somewhat before guns, and in times when even a cross bow use could involve you in excommunication. Progress has been sometimes for the bad.

Hey, Minnesota, how about learning some French and taking a trip to New Orleans, where black and white get along?

Or Brazil, where another kind of slave patrol - earning their freedom those involved - defended Portuguse Brazil against the Dutch. But New Orleans is closer and the ticket is cheaper! (Tip : Mardi Gras is over, it is about French and everyday manners, I mean).

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
Sts Jovine and Basileus
Martyrs of Via Latina in Rome
2.III.2018