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I d o n 't h u n t,
bu t I hav e n o th ­
ing ag ain st h u n t­
ers o r ow ners o f
rifles, bow s and
arrow s, o r b o o ­
m erangs. H ow ever, I am against vigi­
lantes and those, like the N ational
R ifle A sso ciatio n leaders, w h o e n ­
courage them .
I had m y ow n run-in w ith v ig ilan ­
tes w hen I jo in e d the m o v em en t to
end seg reg atio n an d gu aran tee all
citizens th e rig h t to vote.
A fter w eek s o f d eath th reats d e ­
livered by p h o n e to o u r F reed o m
H ouse in Starkville, M iss., I w as
alone o n a N o v em b er night in 1964
w h en th re e a rm e d an d d ru n k e n
K lansm en b an g ed on th e d o o r o f
o u r tw o -ro o m shack. I dem an d ed to
know w h o w as there, and a ch ill ran
th ro u g h m y body w hen the w hite
m en resp o n d ed , "just us niggers."
T h ere w asn't a stick o f furniture
I co u ld use to d efen d m y self, only
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the b ar across the door. B ut lift and
w ield it, and the front d o o r w ould
sw ing open. A nd w ho co u ld I phone
fo r help? T h e sheriff? T h e c h ie f o f
po lice? F o r all I knew , they w ere
w aiting out front, too.
T errified, I slam m ed through the
nailed -sh u t b ack d o o r and slid on
m y belly dow n the hill into the d ark ­
ness, as fast as I could.
T h at w as one incident in a v io ­
lent, b loody year.
A rm ed K lansm en b u rned 50 A f­
rican -A m erican churches and k id ­
n ap p ed and killed three civil rights
activists in an infam ous attack that
becam e a pivotal m om ent in the civil
rights struggle. D uring the search
f o r A n d re w G o o d m a n , J a m e s
C heney, and M ichael S chw em er,
L y n d o n Jo h n so n sent N av y sailors
to scour N esh o b a C ou n ty 's riv er­
beds. T hey d id n 't find them , but
they uncovered the co rp ses o f d o z ­
ens o f A frican A m erican m en. It was
a tim e and place w here any crim e
w as tolerated if it preserv ed the seg ­
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regationists' "w ay o f life."
In the previous h undred years,
thousands o f A frican A m ericans
had been lynched, as docum ented
in scores o f gruesom e photos that
w ere p roudly sold as souvenirs.
It is no surprise to m e, then, to
leam that Jam es M adison's reason
for proposing the Second A m end­
m ent in 1789 was to preserve the state
m ilitias, the w hite population's "prin­
cipal instrum ent o f slave control."
A s docum ented in T he H idden
H istory o f the Second A m endm ent,
an article published in 1998 in the
U niversity o f C alifornia, D avis L aw
R eview , these m ilitias (often called
"slave patrols") w ere tasked w ith
periodic sw eeps o f plantations to
seek runaw ay slaves and intim idate
any w ho dream ed o f freedom .
Today, the proliferation o f arm ed
hate groups, w hich som etim es call
them selves militias, is at least as dan­
gerous as isolated, unbalanced, and
gun-toting m en w ith scores to settle.
The num ber o f anti-governm ent so-
called Patriot groups, such as arm ed
m ilitias, grew by 755 percent in the
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first three years o f President B arack
O bam a's first term, according to the
Southern Poverty L aw Center. The
num ber ofthese groups rose from 149
at the end o f2008 to 1,274in 2011, the
law center reports.
H ate groups have expanded into
every state but H aw aii. T hey are in
ev eryone's backyard.
T he atm osphere today is toxic.
R adio talk jo c k s prom ote arm ed
struggle and one security industry
ex ecu tiv e boasts on Y ouT ube that
he w ould "start shooting people" in
resp o n se to new gun controls.
F o r m ore than a h u ndred years
the N R A prom oted sportsm anship
and responsible gun ow nership —
period. B ut since ex trem ists seized
control in 1977, the organization has
forced a stranglehold on C ongress
w hile prom oting the m yth that the
Second A m endm ent w as enacted
to facilitate arm ed rebellion against
o u r ow n governm ent, should it b e ­
com e tyrannical.
I support the right to o w n guns,
bu t w e don't need 30 rounds in a
sem i-autom atic w eapon— o ra well-
arm ed m ilitia— to bag a deer. I draw
the line w hen m y fellow citizens turn
their hom es into arm ories and begin
training for insurrection. W e used
to call that treason.
Ron Carver, a form er Student
Non Violent Coordinating Com­
mittee fie ld organizer, is an associ­
ate fellow at the Institute fo r Policy
Studies.