[Sgt_Schultze]

After the Civil War, newly freed blacks in the south migrated north to sell their strong backs as laborers. So democrats started the union movement to exclude blacks from competing with whites. Gun control followed to make sure the racist democrats could discriminate against blacks without threat of reprisal. It's always leftist regions - with heavy concentrations of blacks - that keep trying to disarm them.

Nothing has changed.

[US Navy Vet]

See this for more information about Northeast RACISM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots

[thorvaldr]

One of the stated objections that the Democrats had to black people becoming citizens was that all citizens, beyond any argument, as set forth in the founding documents of our nation, have the right to keep and bear arms and they didn’t want black people to have guns. So, having lost that debate, they set about disputing the indisputable and pushing the idea that citizens don’t have the right to keep and bear arms. Gun control took off in the sixties, directly as a result of the civil rights movement. Gun control has always been racist.