Condoleeza Rice Explains to The View How Guns Helped Blacks During Segregation

‘There was no way that Bull Connor and the Birmingham police were going to protect you’

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RICE: “Let me tell you why. (Applause) Let me tell you why I’m a defender of the Second Amendment. I was little girl growing up in Birmingham, Alabama in the late ‘50s, early ‘60s. There was no way that Bull Connor and the Birmingham police were going to protect you. And so when White Knight Riders would come through our neighborhood my father and his friends would take their guns and they'd go to the head of the neighborhood, it's  little cul-de-sac and they would fire in the air, if anybody came through. I don’t think they actually ever hit anybody. But they protected the neighborhood. And I’m sure if Bull Connor had known where those guns were he would have rounded them up. And so, I don’t favor some things like gun registration. That said, it’s time to have a national conversation about how we can deal with the problems that we have." 

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