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The face when they ask “How is #guncontrol racist?”
And you ready to pull a gang of facts and history out your @EtroOfficial bag.
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Here’s a bit of history… (thread)
And you ready to pull a gang of facts and history out your @EtroOfficial bag.
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Here’s a bit of history… (thread)
Before the Civil War ended, State "Slave Codes" prohibited slaves from owning guns. After President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and after the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was adopted and the Civil War ended (cont.)
in 1865, States persisted in prohibiting blacks, now freemen, from owning guns under laws renamed "Black Codes." They did so on the basis that blacks were not citizens, and thus did not have the same rights, including the right to keep and bear arms (cont)
