The very racist history of gun control from The Boston Globe

[DougC]

The Boston Globe opinion column makes the point that the real racism isn't about gun ownership but a long and shameful period of those rights being denied to black Americans.

Years ago I read this book and it's worth the time to understand this issue more;

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
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[Axxe55]

Many of the roots of gun control laws started during the Reconstruction Period right after the Civil War. These laws were a means to control the blacks, and in some ways that Lincoln might have said they were free, they were anything but truly free.

Those gun laws were very much established on racism against freed blacks as a means to control them.

ANY gun law passed, that establishes a method of having to pay to exercise a right is an infringement. One could conclude in many states, having to pay for a permit, or undergo mandatory training to exercise a right is also infringement.

And if you look at the demographics in certain areas of cities, where they are generally minorities and of lower incomes, and that can't afford to pay for a permit to exercise their Constitutional right to bear arms, not only is it an infringement, it can also be called racist as well.

 

[DougC]

Here is another recent op-ed discussing the racist history of gun control. And from what I am reading/viewing on social media the 'blue states' affected by Bruen SCOTUS ruling will continue their gun control methods with new laws. Requiring more training time, renew license more frequently, pay more in fees which will affect those most often less about to afford time/money.

 

[DougC]

My My My pigs can fly-LA Times newspaper admits gun laws have been racist. finally

Read more at Bearing Arms blog;

As attorneys for the state of California prepared recently to defend in federal court a state law requiring background checks for ammunition purchases, they found themselves in an awkward position.

Under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022, gun control measures are legitimate only if they are deeply rooted in American “history and tradition” or are sufficiently similar to some other centuries-old law. The state lawyers had conducted a deep dive through hundreds of years of American jurisprudence and identified dozens of historical laws that they felt bolstered the modern law’s legitimacy by showing that the government has long limited access to firearms and ammunition.

But there was a problem: Many of the historical laws they found were virulently racist, restricting access to weaponry for enslaved people, Indigenous Americans and other racial minorities.

 

[Lead Belly]

My My My pigs can fly-LA Times newspaper admits gun laws have been racist. finally


But there was a problem: Many of the historical laws they found were virulently racist, restricting access to weaponry for enslaved people, Indigenous Americans and other racial minorities.