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Gun Control laws have racist roots...
There were Gun Control laws even back before and after our Civil War. Their main purpose was to not allow freed slaves to own guns before the war and later after the war for the Freedmen not to own guns. One of the main drivers behind the Fourteenth Amendment was to insure that new Freedmen had the right to keep and bear arms.
Stephen Halbrook’s Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 is a “study [that] traces the adoption of, and investigates the interrelationship between, the Fourteenth Amendment and the civil rights legislation passed during Reconstruction, particularly focusing on the right to keep and bear arms.
The end of the Civil War was not the end of tyranny against the newly freed slaves. Following the Civil War, former slave owners interested in maintaining their position of power worked with southern state and local governments to implement a myriad of gun control laws against the freed slaves. These laws were publicly argued as reasonable measures for safety, but – as documented by Halbrook - were in reality based in the fear of a rebellion and (in some cases) to impose non-institutionalized slavery upon a defenseless population.
The argument goes before the Civil War and the Fourteenth amendment, The Bill of Rights did not apply to state governments only to the federal government. The states could infringe upon a person right to keep and bear arms if it choose too for the Second amendment did not apply to state governments.
Before the Civil War, states could ignore the Bill of Rights, which was understood to apply only to the federal government. The 14th Amendment, ratified after the Union victory, was intended to ensure the federal government could protect individuals from abusive state governments.
Our Fourteenth amendment is in reality the second amendment of our Constitution even more boldly gives our Bill of Rights its teeth...
Our Fourteenth Amendment:
The Fourteenth Amendment (Section 1):
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Here is a link to racist roots of Gun Control...
http://www.davekopel.com/2a/mags/dark-secret-of-jim-crow.html
There were Gun Control laws even back before and after our Civil War. Their main purpose was to not allow freed slaves to own guns before the war and later after the war for the Freedmen not to own guns. One of the main drivers behind the Fourteenth Amendment was to insure that new Freedmen had the right to keep and bear arms.
Stephen Halbrook’s Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 is a “study [that] traces the adoption of, and investigates the interrelationship between, the Fourteenth Amendment and the civil rights legislation passed during Reconstruction, particularly focusing on the right to keep and bear arms.
The end of the Civil War was not the end of tyranny against the newly freed slaves. Following the Civil War, former slave owners interested in maintaining their position of power worked with southern state and local governments to implement a myriad of gun control laws against the freed slaves. These laws were publicly argued as reasonable measures for safety, but – as documented by Halbrook - were in reality based in the fear of a rebellion and (in some cases) to impose non-institutionalized slavery upon a defenseless population.
The argument goes before the Civil War and the Fourteenth amendment, The Bill of Rights did not apply to state governments only to the federal government. The states could infringe upon a person right to keep and bear arms if it choose too for the Second amendment did not apply to state governments.
Before the Civil War, states could ignore the Bill of Rights, which was understood to apply only to the federal government. The 14th Amendment, ratified after the Union victory, was intended to ensure the federal government could protect individuals from abusive state governments.
Our Fourteenth amendment is in reality the second amendment of our Constitution even more boldly gives our Bill of Rights its teeth...
Our Fourteenth Amendment:
The Fourteenth Amendment (Section 1):
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Here is a link to racist roots of Gun Control...
http://www.davekopel.com/2a/mags/dark-secret-of-jim-crow.html