19 February 2010

WTF | Utah State Senator Wants To Share MLK Day With Gunmaker

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

John Moses Browning

The NAACP has condemned a Utah lawmaker's bill that would add the name of a local gunmaker to Martin Luther King Day.

Under state Sen. Mark Madsen's proposed law, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., would share his holiday with John Moses Browning, an early 20th-century gunmaker behind such famous gun brands as Browning, Colt and Winchester.

The new holiday would be called "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr./John M. Browning Day."
Read more at The Raw Story

Via The Daily What

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