...The idea of disarming citizens in the United States started in the South where permit systems were designed to keep blacks, who had not been considered citizens, disarmed...
The former restricted permit system came into effect in Michigan after Dr. Ossian Sweet, a black man, moved his family from the ghetto to a white area of Detroit. He was soon confronted by a mob of 400-500 in front of his new home in the mid 1920’s.
Some of the mob began to break into his home and were forced back by Dr. Sweet and his family’s defensive gunfire.
One white man was killed and the Dr. was tried for murder.
He was defended by Clarence Darrow and was found not guilty.
Since the state failed to get a pound of flesh from him, they instituted a “may issue” carry permit system.
This was designed to keep handguns out of the hands of the “wrong” people then.
Those people included blacks, the Irish, and Jews.
The state changed the permit system to “shall issue” under the Governorship of Jennifer Granholm when it was attached to a must pass budget bill.
After reflecting on the fact that licensing didn’t result in the predicted shootouts at every traffic accident, Granholm said she was glad that she signed the new permit system into law.
Any permit requirement is nothing more than an illegal infringement upon the right recognized in the second amendment. Yet no national leader has had the balls to come out and say so, and demand that the illegal laws be overturned. Maybe President Trump will be the one to do so.