Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun.

Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King
kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a
permit to carry a concealed weapon.

A recipient of constant death threats, King had armed supporters
take turns guarding his home and family. He had good reason to fear
that the Klan in Alabama was targeting him for assassination.

William Worthy, a journalist who covered the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, reported that once, during a visit to King's
parsonage, he went to sit down on an armchair in the living room
and, to his surprise, almost sat on a loaded gun. Glenn Smiley, an
adviser to King, described King's home as "an arsenal."

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Hi Deborah
Agree with your points and would add that it is quite "common" for people to pull similar ideas, if not identical, because they are all actually pulling from the same source; the Universe. It's happened in film where two similar stories of the same subjects are released as, for example, with Kevin Costner's film "Wyatt Earp" and another film called "Tombstone" covering the exact same story. It happens with "inventions" and the list is endless as we all continue to cull from the Creative Source of All Things, a limitless ocean of consciousness.