The Racist Roots of Gun Control

"The historical record provides compelling evidence that racism underlies gun
control laws — and not in any subtle way. Throughout much of American history,
governments openly stated that gun control laws were useful for keeping blacks and
Hispanics "in their place" and for quieting the racial fears of whites.

Racist arms laws predate the establishment of the United States. This is not surprising.
Blacks in the New World were often slaves, and revolts against slave owners often
degenerated into less selective forms of racial warfare. The perception that free blacks
were sympathetic to the plight of their enslaved brothers and the "dangerous" example
that blacks could actually handle freedom often led New World governments to disarm
all blacks, both slave and free."

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