If we’re canceling things with a history of racism, how bout we start with gun control laws?
Look it up.
Look it up.
The KKK supported strict gun control laws and consistently lobbied for measures to keep guns from "urban areas" that disproportionately housed Black Americans.
After the Civil War, southern states passed laws saying only "Army and Navy" guns could be sold. AKA the ones ex-confederate soldiers already owned.
It was meant as a clear way of keeping guns from Black Americans.
It was meant as a clear way of keeping guns from Black Americans.
The pro-Civil Rights attorney who argued in Plessy v. Ferguson said in areas with a large KKK presence, "almost universally the first thing done was to disarm the negroes and leave them defenseless."
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