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AP Photo/Wilson Ring The history of gun control is something that should be indisputable. The earliest gun control laws existed not to prevent crime or anything, but to disarm black people so they couldn’t rise up against slaveholders. This is a simple fact.
And yet, it actually is disputed.
Perhaps worse, though, mentioning these facts gets the gun rights crowd labeled as “woke.” Gun rights have gone woke, if the briefs filed in the Supreme Court’s pending case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen , are any indication. Bruen is the Second Amendment case that gun rights advocates have been waiting for. Thirteen years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller , the court held that the Constitution granted an individual right to possess a gun in the home for self-defense, unrelated to the person’s participation in an organized militia. Now the court is examining when and under what circumstances a person must receive a license to carry a gun for self-defense. The briefing in the case has made for strange alliances. Some Black criminal defense attorneys and public defender organizations, including the Bronx Defenders, filed a brief on behalf of the plaintiffs, pointing out the disparate impact gun regulations have on low-income persons of color. Twenty-one Republican attorneys general, of all people, echoed their race-based arguments. “State legislatures have often fallen short of the mark in defending this right to bear arms in self-defense,” they conceded, pointing to historical bans on carrying arms by free Black citizens in some of their own states. “In the wake of the Nat Turner slave revolt,” they observe in a typical passage, “Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia passed laws prohibiting free blacks from carrying firearms.” They were joined by 176 House members (again, all Republican) — including such divisive figures as Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Madison Cawthorn (N.C.) and Paul A. Gosar (Ariz.) — who argued that the history of the New York gun regulation at issue in Bruen “confirms that it was designed to exclude nonelite immigrants and disfavored minorities from gun ownership.” Finally, the libertarian Rutherford […]
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