'Gun control': Historically racist, and racist still

St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 25 October, 2011 | Kurt Hofmann

[marktwain]

About a month ago, we discussed UCLA Constitutional law professor Adam Winkler's contention that--just as Clayton Cramer has argued for decades--the history of "gun control" is rooted in racism. The Wall Street Journal brings us this Adam Winkler quote:

The KKK began as a gun-control organization. Before the Civil War, blacks were never allowed to own guns. During the Civil War, blacks kept guns for the first time – either they served in the Union army and they were allowed to keep their guns, or they buy guns on the open market where for the first time there’s hundreds of thousands of guns flooding the marketplace after the war ends. So they arm up because they know who they’re dealing with in the South.

As I predicted last month, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence didn't like that one bit, especially given Winkler's reputation as a moderate on gun rights/"gun control" issues. CSGV communications director Ladd Everrit had in the past, after all, claimed that pointing out the racist history of restrictive gun laws was a "smear," seen only in the "darkest corners of the gun rights movement." Just as expected, Everitt tried to strike back, rising up in righteous indignation at a talk presented by Professor Winkler, chastising him for the "smear."

Everitt had tried to pretend that Winkler was accusing current "gun control" advocates of being motivated by racism, despite his position clearly being that it's the history of oppressive gun laws that is rooted in racism--and not that every forcible citizen disarmament now is primarily motivated by the desire to win a racial power struggle.

In response to Winkler's point that it is important not to try to gloss over "gun control's" ugly skeleton in the closet, Everitt wants us to "get over it?"

[marktwain]

Much of today's effort at "gun control" has been racist in origin as well, though it may be hard to discern, given the high crime rates of blacks in the United States.

[South40]

[Fido969]

Much of today's effort at "gun control" has been racist in origin as well, though it may be hard to discern, given the high crime rates of blacks in the United States.

Well, gun control assures that in the black neighborhoods - Democrat cities - only the criminals have guns.

[TYVets]

The south side of Chicago, Illinois is a good example of where Gun Control works (/S)

The rest of the state should break the Chicagoland control and have gun freedom not control.

Here in Missouri it took many years to break the control of the cities of St Louis and Kansas City over the Missouri state legislature. Gains have been made, but there is more to be done.

It is sad to see the corruption of the Blue Cities control the entire state.

[556x45]

Interesting choice of weapons. Is there a message in there??? LOL

[goldstategop]

Historically, gun control laws in southern and western states were designed to disarm minorities, particularly blacks. The same was true with New York’s Sullivan law passed a century ago. Whites, who were well-off, were not greatly inconvenienced by those measures. But those who sought to challenge the unjust status quo were. That is still the function gun control laws fulfill today.

[Graybeard58]

It is sad to see the corruption of the Blue Cities control the entire state.

Tell me about it neighbor. I live in NotChicago, Illinois.

[philman_36]

Both "gun control" and "controlled substances" have their racist origins. Usually nobody points out that both are about control.

[School of Rational Thought]

If one doesn’t like being “smeared” as a bigot, stop being a bigot.

One does not have to do any statistical analysis to realize that gun control enthusiasts want gun control where minority concentrations exist.