Thread by @MAJTOURE

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)

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)

protected in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as whites. This view was specifically articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in its infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford to uphold slavery. (Cont.)

The United States Congress overrode most portions of the Black Codes by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The legislative histories of both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as The Special Report of the Anti-Slavery Conference of 1867… (cont)

are replete with denunciations of those particular statutes that denied blacks equal access to firearms. However, facially neutral disarming through economic means laws remain in effect.
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After the adoption of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1878, most States turned to "facially neutral" transaction taxes on handgun purchases. However, the intention of these laws was not neutral. (Cont)

An article in Virginia's official university law review called for a "prohibitive tax on the privilege" of selling handguns as a way of disarming "the son of Ham," whose "cowardly practice of 'toting' guns has been one of the most fruitful sources of crime. (Cont)

“Let a negro board a railroad train with a quart of mean whiskey and a pistol in his grip and the chances are that there will be a murder, or at least a row, before he alights." (Cont)

Thus, many Southern States imposed high taxes or banned inexpensive guns so as to price blacks out of the gun market. #AllGunControlisRacist #BlackGunsMatter

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