From: [k--ar--s] at [cc.memphis.edu] (Ken Barnes)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Gun Control & Racism
Date: 18 Jun 94 20:33:16 -0500

[S I Marvell] at [dcs.warwick.ac.uk] (Storm) writes:
> [a--y--r] at [nmsu.edu] (Nosy) writes:
>><   There is no relevance.  It has no relevance. No relevance at all.
>>	Wrong. History is replete with cases where "gun control"
>>	was advocated by white people to "keep the wogs in their
>>	place".
> If you are going to make brash statements, such as this one, I suggest to
> back them up with some documentry evidence. It's unsubstantiated comments
> like these which cause major flame wars, such as this one.
>>	In the US it was part of the Black Codes.

From "Act to Regulate the Relation of Master and Apprentice
Relative to Freedmen, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes":

"Sec. 1  Be it enacted...  That no freedman, free negro or
mulatto, not in the military service of the United States
government, and not licensed to do so by the board of police
of his or her county, shall keep or carry fire-arms of
any kind, or any ammunition, dirk or bowie knife, and on
conviction thereof in the county court shall be punished by
fine, not exceeding ten dollars, and pay the costs of such
proceedings and all such arms or ammunition shall be forfeited
_to the informer;_[a white guy,_emphasis added_-KB] and it
shall be the duty of every civil and military officer to arrest
amy freedman, free negro, or mulatto found with any such
arms or ammunition, and cause him or her to be committed
to trial in default of bail...

Sec. 2 .... If any white person shall sell, lend, or give to
any freedman, free negro, or mulatto any fire-arms, dirk
or bowie knife, or ammunition, or any spiritous or
intoxicating liquors, such person or persons so offending,
upon conviction thereof in the county court of his or
her county, shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars,
and may be imprisoned, at the discretion of the court,
not exceeding thirty days.

[...]

Sec. 5 .... If any freedman, free negro, or mulatto, convicted
of any of the misdemeanors provided against in this act, shall
fail or refuse for the space of five days, after conviction,
to pay the fine and costs imposed, [by reason of poverty, for
instance...  -KB] such person shall be hired out [read enslaved
-KB] by the sheriff or other officer, at public outcry, [at
auction, in other words -KB] to any white person who will pay
said fine and all costs, and take said convict for the
shortest time..."
 
--Laws of Mississippi, 1865, at 165  (29 Nov. 1865)  

>>	In the US *today* it's a sure bet that the Chicago
>>	handgun ban is applied quite differently to black men
>>	vs. white women.
> 
> Again, can you back this up, or is this argument going develop into a
> sexist/racist flame war?
> 
> 			~Storm

See above.
Gun control works.  Just ask the Gestapo, the KGB, and the KKK... 

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