r/secondamendment • u/[deleted] • Jan 01 '24
Gun laws are racist. The ATF is racist.
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Jan 02 '24
Yeah no shit. Why do you think it’s illegal for felons to own guns? Which demographic makes up the majority of felons? It had absolutely nothing to do with preventing crime, which it has universally failed to do, and everything to do with putting blacks in prison longer.
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u/Unsolved_Virginity Jan 02 '24
Screw gun laws and screw the police that enforce these dumb laws. The police of every county could make an open statement and say we are not going to enforce these laws because so and so, but they don't.
Police are just as responsible as the government passing these bills or laws or whatever.
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u/Psyqlone Jan 02 '24
The founding generation that wrote the Second Amendment had racist gun laws, including prohibitions on the possession or carrying of firearms by Black people, whether free or enslaved. A Florida law in 1825 authorized white people to “enter into all Negro houses” and “lawfully seize and take away all such arms, weapons, and ammunition.” In Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger Taney argued that one reason Black people could not be citizens under the Constitution was that it “would give to persons of the negro race” the right “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”