“Armed For Freedom” from episode #183 “Taking it to the Streets”

At least 31 people were killed this past weekend in mass
shootings in the U.S. The violence that took place during the
early morning hours of August 4 in Dayton, Ohio was the nation’s
251st mass shooting of 2019. 


 


As the U.S. and its leaders once again debate gun control,
BackStory revisits a segment originally published in 2013. In it,
UCLA legal scholar Adam Winkler talks to Brian about the day in
1967 that 30 Black Panthers walked into the California State
House in Sacramento carrying loaded guns. They were protesting a
gun control bill that they said deprived them of their 2nd
Amendment right to bear arms, but ended up being the target of
early gun control laws.


 


Image: “The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from
our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality ...”
from a Black Panther Party poster featuring Huey P. Newton,
approximately 1965. Source: Yanker Poster Collection, Library of
Congress.


 


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