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Originally Posted by Glenn Dee
Gun control laws were originally jim crow laws.
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Originally Posted by Standing Wolf
Nope. Sorry. America's first "gun control" laws were passed even before the Revolution. Their purpose was to prevent blacks and Indians from having firearms.
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Standing Wolf, I believe that's what Glenn was trying to say... Most laws of this type are commonly referred to as Jim Crow Laws, even if their origins predated the Reconstruction Period...
Ultimately, they all mean the same thing; laws enacted to limit freedoms and actions for a certain group of people...
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights.
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