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1) "Immediately after the Civil War, Southern states enacted Black Codes Mississippi’s provision was typical: No freedman “shall keep or carry fire-arms of any kind, or any ammunition” without police permission.
1) "Immediately after the Civil War, Southern states enacted Black Codes Mississippi’s provision was typical: No freedman “shall keep or carry fire-arms of any kind, or any ammunition” without police permission.
@garyggray @supitsshekinah 2) " In areas where the Ku Klux Klan took control, “almost universally the first thing done was to disarm the negroes and leave them defenseless,” recounted the civil rights attorney Albion Tourgée, who represented Plessy in Plessy v. Ferguson.
@garyggray @supitsshekinah 3) "Repeatedly, congressional proponents of the 14th Amendment announced that a key purpose of the Amendment was to guarantee that freedmen could exercise their 2nd Amendment right to own guns for self-defense, especially against gun control organizations such as the KKK.
@garyggray @supitsshekinah 4) Supreme Court decision: McDonald, et al . v. City of Chicago (2010)
"The Civil Rights Act, like the Freedmen’s Bureau Act, aimed to protect 'the constitutional right to bear arms' and not simply to prohibit discrimination ...
"The Civil Rights Act, like the Freedmen’s Bureau Act, aimed to protect 'the constitutional right to bear arms' and not simply to prohibit discrimination ...
@garyggray @supitsshekinah 5) " ... one of the 'core purposes of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and of the Fourteenth Amendment was to redress the grievances' of freedmen who had been stripped of their arms and to 'affirm the full and equal right of every citizen to self-defense.'"
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