The Second Amendment Has Always Been a Tool of White Supremacy

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'Gun control is not inherently racist, nor is advocating for gun rights inherently anti-racist. But the use of gun restrictions as a Trojan horse to insult, harm, and disenfranchise minority Americans is an old, ugly political tradition.'

in the millions in the preceding decades, were facing prejudice and hostility.

The type of gun control that the NRA proposed limited the concealed carrying of guns in public to those who could obtain a license — a determination left up to local police. According to Winkler, those laws were later used to deny a permit to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., after his house was firebombed in 1956.

Perhaps the most notable — and revealing — instance of racist, targeted gun control came in 1967, amid a burgeoning racial justice movement in Northern California. At the time, thewas growing in visibility and popularity as an alternative to Dr. King’s nonviolent movement.

In response, a conservative Republican legislator from the Bay Area named Don Mulford proposed a gun control bill to ban open carry. The legislation

 

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Actually it has been a tool to fight tyranny. Learn your history before you tweet to random shit.

This article may be the best anti-gun control argument I’ve heard yet. By all means, let’s get rid of all those racist gun control laws! 2AShallNotBeInfringed

Your quote says gun control is harmful to minorities, but your title says the Second Amendment, itself, is a tool of white supremacy? Yeah, I don't think the Second Amendment means what you think it means.

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