Rep. Lewis on Limbaugh's gun claim: We Chose Peaceful Means
U.S. Congressman responds to talk show host's claims that Lewis would not have been beaten up during the 1965 Alabama civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery had he had a gun.
On his national radio program this past Friday, Rush Limbaugh was making a point that in his opinion liberals had made the gun debate about race. Limbaugh, who can be heard locally weekdays from noon-3 p.m. on AM 750 and 95.5FM News/Talk WSB, asked his listeners, "Try this. If a lot of African-Americans back in the sixties had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, do you think they woulda needed Selma? I don't know. I'm just asking. If John Lewis, who says he was beat upside the head, if John Lewis had had a gun, would he have been beat upside the head on the bridge.” During the 1965 Alabama civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, state troopers beat the unarmed protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and Lewis …
Jeff Thompson
1:01 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The Black Panthers were huge gun rights activists actually. more ›