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Firearms and Lynching
Clemson University ^ | August 8, 2022 | Michael D. Makowsky and Patrick L. Warren

Posted on 09/08/2022 5:43:39 AM PDT by karpov

Abstract

We assess firearms as a means of Black self-defense in the Jim Crow South. We infer firearm access by race and place by measuring the fraction of suicides committed with a firearm. Corroborating anecdotal accounts and historical claims, state bans on pistols and increases in White law enforcement personnel served as mechanisms to disarm the Black community, while having no comparable effect on White firearms. The interaction of these mechanisms with changing national market prices for firearms provides us with a credible identification strategy for Black firearm access. Rates of Black lynching decreased with greater Black firearm access.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 2nd; 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; jimcrow; kkk; lynchings; nra; racism
Discussed at Marginal Revolution.
1 posted on 09/08/2022 5:43:39 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

So when people have guns, they don’t get lynched so much? Interesting.


2 posted on 09/08/2022 5:47:10 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: karpov

‘God created men; Samuel Colt made them equal.’


3 posted on 09/08/2022 5:48:02 AM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: karpov

What about lynching of whites? Or did only blacks get lynched?


4 posted on 09/08/2022 5:55:41 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

Doesn’t fit the narrative.


5 posted on 09/08/2022 5:58:49 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: karpov

Pointless article. I don’t think anyone is proud of what was done in the past to both blacks and native Americans. That said, the historical evolution of black culture and behavior here is not a model, either. As an outsider, the root cause of the problem is the deterioration of the black family unit. Over 70% of black children are raised in single-parent homes. I blame this on Democrat-designed War on Poverty under Johnson. It causes the father to leave because payments for the children are higher when he’s not present. It should be the other way around. $4 trillion dollars later and poverty among blacks is worse now than it was in the late ‘60’s. It’s easy to be a father; much harder to be a parent. Man-up, guys, and take responsibility for your actions.


6 posted on 09/08/2022 6:18:15 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: karpov

The NRA went down south and it conducted firearm safety and training for blacks.

So blacks could protect themselves. You will never hear a Democrat talk about that, but it’s documented.


7 posted on 09/08/2022 6:18:33 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: karpov

It works like this. Lots of people have guns. Remember this, if you use those guns, FOR ANY REASON the police will come by to see what is going on. IF YOU USED IT ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE ARRESTED AND YOUR GUN TAKEN, PERIOD!!!

It is actually quite simple. Try thinking once in a while.


8 posted on 09/08/2022 6:20:45 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: HYPOCRACY

I mean who’d of thought it?


9 posted on 09/08/2022 6:33:02 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Nifster

Kooky. I know.


10 posted on 09/08/2022 6:34:01 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Altura Ct.

Oh please tell us how many whites were lynched?


11 posted on 09/08/2022 6:34:23 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Altura Ct.

Back during the days of Lynchings about a third of those lynched were white Republicans. The biggest mass lynching was of Italians in New Orleans in 1891.


12 posted on 09/08/2022 6:36:06 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: karpov

According to historian Michael J. Pfeifer, the prevalence of lynchings in post–Civil War America reflected people’s lack of confidenc


13 posted on 09/08/2022 6:40:52 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Altura Ct.

About a quarter of all lynchings in the US


14 posted on 09/08/2022 6:41:33 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Nifster

I give up how many?

0? 10? 100? 1,000 or more?


15 posted on 09/08/2022 6:41:48 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Nifster; Altura Ct.
Well over a thousand.

Many whites were lynched for fighting racism . Of course in the south during reconstruction only blacks were barred or "discouraged" by the pre civil war laws barring them from gun ownership .

16 posted on 09/08/2022 6:44:59 AM PDT by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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To: karpov; All
From the good old days a FR, many 2A threads and discussions here have reminded us of two regularly repeated facts:

All "Gun Control" efforts in America were undertaken for the purpose of Disarming Black Citizens from before the Civil War onward, or

secondly, for the purpose of Disarming the Entire Citizenry in a Municipality where the Police and Government are Corrupt Criminal Thugs (IE: New York City Sullivan Law).

17 posted on 09/08/2022 6:51:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Altura Ct.

The Tuskegee Institute has recorded the lynchings of 3,446 blacks and the lynchings of 1,297 whites, all of which occurred between 1882 and 1968, with the peak occurring in the 1890s....

Lynching in the United States - Wikipedia


18 posted on 09/08/2022 7:27:20 AM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Is your point that there is a difference between a murder and a lynching?


19 posted on 09/08/2022 9:01:16 AM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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