Racist Origins of Gun Control Laws Since 1639

[lgm270]

Gun control laws in North America originate in the 1639 stature passed by the Virginia colonial legislature which prohibited  "negroes" from having arms.  Subsequently, there were hundreds of years of gun laws that targeted black people, from that date onward.  Here is a link to a website  with a good,  fact based time line that discusses the relationship between  anti-black racism and gun control laws, entitled, ""Laws Designed to Disarm Slaves, Freedmen, and African-Americans"A very interesting analysis of this subject.

http://www.old-yankee.com/rkba/racial_laws.html

It's interesting to study the history of gun control and how it has evolved from a device to disarm black people in the early history of this country  into a device that is designed to disarm white people today.   

[yellowtail3]

eh, nobody complained when it was keeping blacks powerless


diff story now!

[Dand]

I'm sure there were complaints in the old days, just that since the folks likely to complain were disarmed, disenfranchised and had no access to airing their concerns, no one heard them.  A darned good argument for resisting any efforts to disarm the general population today.

[lgm270]

I'm sure there were complaints in the old days, just that since the folks likely to complain were disarmed, disenfranchised and had no access to airing their concerns, no one heard them.  A darned good argument for resisting any efforts to disarm the general population today.

Blacks are  neither  disenfranchised nor unheard from today, but their "leaders" uniformly oppose the right to keep and bear arms as well as  free speech and equal rights for white people.   

Given what blacks have done with their "freedom" it appears that the  600,000 whites killed in the Civil War probably died for nothing.
 

[SHOOTALL]

gun control is gun control . 400 years ago it was blacks today it's americans of all color.
as to what blacks have done with their freedom , well some alot and some not so much. I ask do the blacks who have done nothing to improve their race get to cling to the coat tails of the blacks who did infact improve themsel;ves and race in the same way the whites who have not lifted a finger to improve either themselves or race cling to the achivements of the whites who have ? Judge each man on his own merits.