Jim Crow, Self Defense, Arms, Guns

"In the Jim Crow South, for example, government failed and indeed refused to protect blacks from extra-legal violence. Given our history, it's stunning we fail to question those who would force upon us a total reliance on the state for defense."

-- Robert J. Cottrol

Professor at Rutgers School of Law and George Washington University, member of the ACLU and the NAACPSource: A Liberal Democrat’s Lament, The American Enterprise, 1999.

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Cottrol.Quote.F376

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