A dirty little secret gun control advocates avoid mentioning is that many gun
laws have racist origins. In southern states, some date to reconstruction and
ensuing decades of racial unrest as whites passed “Jim Crow” laws. Purchase
permit laws repealed in Missouri but still on the books in North Carolina are
one example …
Paul Valone says what needs to be said here. Too many people are ignorant of this history, and either don't want to hear it, or think you are being "funny" when you tell them. That blacks are so ignorant of this history is disturbing.
The truth is that guns were fairly common in the post revolutionary period. A "gentleman" simply did not go out of the house without putting a gun or two in his pocket. One of the unintended consequences of the Civil War was the making of laws restricting gun ownership. In theory, these restrictions applied to everyone, but in practice, blacks were most affected. In the Northern states, gun control laws were passed to keep immigrants from being armed. In both cases, gun control laws have a nasty and sordid past disguised with the purist of motives. Based on that past, the gun grabbers of today should be society's pariahs.
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