https://patriotpost.us/opinion/81627-the-very-racist-history-of-gun-control-2021-08-02
SECOND AMENDMENT / JEFF JACOBY / AUG. 2, 2021
“For much of American history, gun-control measures, like many other laws, were used to oppress African Americans,” Adam Winkler, a constitutional scholar at UCLA, has written. In blatant disregard of the Second Amendment’s guarantee, Southern states enacted laws prohibiting black people, enslaved and free alike, from owning firearms.
SECOND AMENDMENT / JEFF JACOBY / AUG. 2, 2021
The Very Racist History of Gun Control
“For much of American history, gun-control measures, like many other laws, were used to oppress African Americans,” Adam Winkler, a constitutional scholar at UCLA, has written. In blatant disregard of the Second Amendment’s guarantee, Southern states enacted laws prohibiting black people, enslaved and free alike, from owning firearms.