Yes, I'd like the Oakland cops to think twice before beating up a black kid due to the presence of the Black Panther Party, say. The right to self-defense is a natural right, as Malcolm X noted in his "By Any Means Necessary" speech. A lot of gun control laws came about in the 1960s to crack down on the black power movement. If the cops are armed, if the neo-Nazis and Klansmen are armed, so should the citizenry be armed.
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