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Don't forget that in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War some of the first gun control laws were passed. Specifically, the laws restricted ownership of fir
by SauciestGNU 4y ago
Don't forget that in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War some of the first gun control laws were passed. Specifically, the laws restricted ownership of firearms to particular models that the newly freed Black population would be unlikely to be able to afford. The effect was essentially disarmament of the Black population in the South.
- spoils19 4y agoI highly doubt that is true - the South had no such inclinations towards the black population. Could we get a source?
- SauciestGNU 4y ago>The Army and Navy Law prohibited the sale of "belt or pocket pistols, or revolvers, or any other kind of pistols, except army or navy pistols", which were prohibitively expensive for black freedmen and poor whites to purchase. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special
- spoils19 4y agoIf it's prohibitively expensive for everyone, how is the black community targeted unfairly?
- 1915cb1f 4y agoThe black community was targeted in the same way that poll taxes were used to prevent freed slaves were voting. Are you seriously questioning whether or not Reconstruction-era white southerners had it out for black people?