✅ Former Republican U.S. President and California Gov. Ronald Reagan once said, “There is absolutely no reason why out on the street today a civilian should be carrying a loaded weapon.”
, the newspaper reported in May 1967 that the Black Panther Party members who gathered at the Capitol were"denouncing the police” and called them “racist dogs.” “Because I'm Black, you hate my Blackness,” one of the members said. Another member explained that they were armed"because of 'white racist cops in our Black community.'" The Black Panther Party members"were carrying pistols, rifles, and at least one sawed-off shotgun.
Two members of the Black Panther Party are met on the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento, May 2, 1967, by Police Lt. Ernest Holloway, who informs them they will be allowed to keep their weapons as long as they cause no trouble and do not disturb the peace. Earlier, several members had invaded the Assembly chambers and had their guns taken away.
Emboldened by the view that African Americans had a constitutional right to bear arms , the Black Panther Party marched on the body as a protest against the pending Mulford Act. The Black Panther Party viewed the legislation, a gun control bill, as a political maneuver to thwart the organization’s effort to combat police brutality in the Oakland community.
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