JerseyMike
Active Member
This article was shared on Reddit, I know most of you probably don’t use Reddit so I figured I would share it here.
https://archive.is/tvFzR
The argument is that, since facially racist gun laws existed historically, “They nevertheless show that the Framers understood that legislatures could make such judgments to categorically disarm groups of people deemed to be dangerous.”
The CA attorney general: “submitted spreadsheets of historical gun statutes that it says are relevant to its case.
Among dozens of racist laws it cited is a 1792 Virginia statute—passed one year after the Second Amendment was adopted—dictating that “no negro or mulatto” except for housekeepers “shall keep or carry any gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon whatsoever, offensive or defensive.”
The state also referred to an 1833 Florida law, enacted in the aftermath of Nat Turner’s bloody slave rebellion, that authorized white citizen patrols to “search negro houses” for firearms. Anyone found in possession could be summarily whipped.” … “In the ammunition background-check case, the state listed more than 100 laws from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. More than three-quarters of them explicitly targeted slaves, free Blacks, Native Americans and Catholics.”
Simply stunning.
https://archive.is/tvFzR
The argument is that, since facially racist gun laws existed historically, “They nevertheless show that the Framers understood that legislatures could make such judgments to categorically disarm groups of people deemed to be dangerous.”
The CA attorney general: “submitted spreadsheets of historical gun statutes that it says are relevant to its case.
Among dozens of racist laws it cited is a 1792 Virginia statute—passed one year after the Second Amendment was adopted—dictating that “no negro or mulatto” except for housekeepers “shall keep or carry any gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon whatsoever, offensive or defensive.”
The state also referred to an 1833 Florida law, enacted in the aftermath of Nat Turner’s bloody slave rebellion, that authorized white citizen patrols to “search negro houses” for firearms. Anyone found in possession could be summarily whipped.” … “In the ammunition background-check case, the state listed more than 100 laws from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. More than three-quarters of them explicitly targeted slaves, free Blacks, Native Americans and Catholics.”
Simply stunning.