Not To Injure or Destroy

Citing "the genius and the elegance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s work," civil rights icon and Rep. John Lewis handed Rush Limbaugh's head to him on a plate after the right-wing blowhard touted the righteous use of firepower by suggesting that if Lewis and other civil rights activists had had guns in the 1960s, they wouldn't have "needed Selma." The ever-smooth Lewis suggested he was "glad to address this inaccuracy." "Our goal (was) not to injure or destroy but to build a sense of community... "African Americans could have chosen to arm themselves, but we made a conscious decision not to. We were convinced that peace could not be achieved through violence."

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