Gun Control Historically Has Meant Prohibiting Blacks From Owning One

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"In 1828, Florida said free blacks could carry guns if they had court permission. It wasn’t until the Civil War that black men who fought for the Union Army were free to carry guns.

Prohibitions against blacks owning guns continues to crop up.

In 1968, Congress passed the Gun Control Act. Robert Sherrill, a supporter, said the legislation was passed not to control guns but to control blacks.

In 1994, the Clinton Administration introduced H.R. 3838 to ban guns in federal public housing, which would have affected 3 million individuals."

Gun Control Historically Has Meant Prohibiting Blacks From Owning One
 
From the OP link:

"Today, blacks own guns but their ownership is much lower compared with whites.

Twenty-four percent of blacks own a gun compared to 15 percent of Hispanics and 36 percent of whites, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

About 48 percent of white men are likely to be gun owners compared to 25 percent of white women, 24 percent of nonwhite men and 16 percent of nonwhite women.

Pew released its data on gun ownership one week after the massacre 17 students at a Florida high school."
 
Congress passed two bills to advance education and opportunity to blacks after the Civil War. It would also give 2nd Amendment to blacks.

Andrew Johnson vetoed both of them.
 
PoliTalker said:
The greatest thing a black man has to fear is a white man with a badge and a gun.
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The police were started as runaway slave hunters

Slave Patrols: An Early Form of American Policing

The American South relied almost exclusively on slave labor and white Southerners lived in near constant fear of slave rebellions disrupting this economic status quo. As a result, these patrols were one of the earliest and most prolific forms of early policing in the South.

Organized policing was one of the many types of social controls imposed on enslaved African Americans in the South. Physical and psychological violence took many forms, including an overseer’s brutal whip, the intentional breakup of families, deprivation of food and other necessities, and the private employment of slave catchers to track down runaways.

https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/2019/07/10/slave-patrols-an-early-form-of-american-policing/
 
Hello guno,

guno said:
The police were started as runaway slave hunters

Slave Patrols: An Early Form of American Policing

The American South relied almost exclusively on slave labor and white Southerners lived in near constant fear of slave rebellions disrupting this economic status quo. As a result, these patrols were one of the earliest and most prolific forms of early policing in the South.

Organized policing was one of the many types of social controls imposed on enslaved African Americans in the South. Physical and psychological violence took many forms, including an overseer’s brutal whip, the intentional breakup of families, deprivation of food and other necessities, and the private employment of slave catchers to track down runaways.

https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/2019/07/10/slave-patrols-an-early-form-of-american-policing/
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Wow. Never knew that. So, the 'protect and serve' thing didn't come along until later.

-looked it up-

Yup, that began in 1963 at the LAPD.

(well before Rodney King)

Up until then it was more like: 'dominate and demoralize.'
 
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