“Violence exercised merely in self-defense, all societies, from the most primitive to the most cultured and civilized, accept as moral and legal. The principle of self-defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
From A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, p. 32.
Via Eugene Volokh.
Anti-gunners absolutely HATE when we use MLK to support gun rights. The claws have come right out every time ive ever done it.
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The anti-rights cultists seem to twist MLK's strategy maintaining the moral high ground through non-violence as his being completely non-violent.
He knew that the media (just like today) will twist any use of violence into a negative light.
There is a stark and radical difference between "non-violent" and "non-aggressive".
Ghandi was the former. MLK, Jesus, and other visionaries were the latter.
By and large, so are the overwhelming majority of firearm owners as well.
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