The earliest gun control laws were pretty explicitly Jim Crow laws, intended to keep black folks from being able to defend themselves against, say, the guys bur

The earliest gun control laws were pretty explicitly Jim Crow laws, intended to keep black folks from being able to defend themselves against, say, the guys burning a cross on their front lawn. And even today, there's a disparate impact aspect to it. I mean, the neighborhoods where you're most likely to want to have the means to defend yourself are the poor urban neighborhoods, which are disproportionately inhabited by blacks.