7/12/2023 0 Comments Carol anderson![]() On the Founding Fathers' fear of a slave revolt, which was stoked by the Haitian Revolution And so we see this, for instance, in Georgia, where Georgia had a law that restricted the carrying of guns. And so free Blacks were particularly proscribed. And with each uprising, the laws became even more strict, even more definitive, about who could and who could not bear arms. And this is across the board for free Blacks and, particularly, for the enslaved. You saw incredible restrictions being put in place about limiting access to arms. On Black people's access to arms after the American Revolution In her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, Anderson traces racial distinctions in Americans' treatment of gun ownership back to the founding of the country and the Second Amendment, which states: In the 1990s, after the assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, the National Rifle Association condemned federal authorities as "jackbooted government thugs." But Anderson says the organization "went virtually silent" when it came to Castile's case, issuing a tepid statement that did not mention Castile by name. Philando Castile, using the NRA guidelines, alerts to the officer that he has a licensed weapon with him," she says. ![]() ![]() "Here was a Black man who was pulled over by the police, and the police officer asked to see his identification. That's the question historian Carol Anderson set out to answer after Minnesota police killed Philando Castile, a Black man with a license to carry a gun, during a 2016 traffic stop. Civil rights activists are blocked by National Guard members brandishing bayonets while trying to stage a protest on Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968.ĭo Black people have full Second Amendment rights? ![]()
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