Gun control’s racist past and present Calls for strict gun control after mass shootings overlook how regulations have been used to disarm people of colour. Gun ownership is part of the fabric that makes up US identity, with the right to bear arms found in the Constitution’s Second Amendment, adopted in 1791. But racism in gun laws predates the founding of the nation. These laws were passed by Republicans and supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA), the most powerful anti-regulation gun lobby group in the US. Today, such groups lead the charge to abolish gun restrictions. There is “irony” in the fact that right-wing politicians and the NRA were “definitely in favour of gun control when there was great concern among white Americans”, https://www.patreon.com/theiconiumfou...
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