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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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14. "...the basis of the 2nd" was indeed the basis of the whole Constitution at that time...

Reply to packman (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 4, 2016, 02:22 PM

Oct 2016

Not until LBJ, et al, was the Constitution de jure extended to all people. One of the better summations of both Ante Bellum and Jim Crow era laws which prohibited RKBA for blacks was the friend of the court brief in the Heller decision, submitted by Georgia Carry. It surveyed the many laws, state constitutional amendments, and ordinances designed to restrict blacks from owning guns. It seems white Southen state governments well remembered the slave revolts, esp. the Stono Rebellion (1739) when slaves escaped a South Carolina plantation. First stop: A general store for guns.

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