:54:01
The slaves started rebelling.
There were uprisings
:54:03
and old masters' heads
got chopped off
:54:04
and when white people heard of
this, they were freaking out.
:54:07
They going:
- I want to live!
:54:09
Don't kill me, big black man.
:54:11
- Well, just in the nick of time
came Samuel Colt, who,
:54:14
in 1836, invented the first
weapon ever that could be fired
:54:17
over and over without
having to reload.
:54:19
And all the settlers were, like:
- Yee-hah!
:54:21
- But it was too late.
The North soon won the Civil War
:54:25
and the slaves were free to go
chop the old masters' heads off.
:54:29
Then everybody was, like:
- Oh, no, we're gonna die.
:54:32
- But the freed slaves
took no revenge.
:54:34
They just wanted
to live in peace.
:54:37
But you couldn't convince
the white people of this.
:54:39
So they formed the Ku Klux Klan
and, in 1871,
:54:43
the same year the Klan became an
illegal terrorist organization,
:54:46
another group was founded:
the National Rifle Association.
:54:50
Soon, politicians passed
one of the first gun laws,
:54:52
making it illegal for any black
person to own one.
:54:55
It was a great year for America.
he KKK and the NRA.
:54:58
Of course, they had nothing
to do with each other;
:55:00
it was a coincidence. One group
legally promoted responsible
:55:03
gun ownership; the other shot
and lynched black people.
:55:06
That's the way it was till
1955, when a black woman
:55:08
broke the law by refusing to
move to the back of the bus.
:55:11
White people just couldn't
believe it.
:55:13
- Huh? Why won't she move?
- What's going on?
:55:16
- Man, all hell broke loose.
Black people everywhere demanded
:55:19
their rights. White people had
a major, freaky-feel meltdown
:55:23
and they were all, like:
- Run away! Run away!
:55:26
- And they did. They all ran
fleeing to the suburbs,
:55:28
where it was all white and safe
and clean. And they went out
:55:30
and bought a
quarter-of-a-billion guns.
:55:32
And put locks on their doors,
alarms in their houses,
:55:35
and gates around the
neighbourhoods.
:55:37
And finally, they were all safe
and secure and snug as a bug.
:55:46
And everyone lived
happily ever after.