Reply #12: Respectfully, let me correct this notion... [View All]

Please see: www.georgiacarry.org

and scroll down 2-3 pages until you get to the brief the organization submitted in the Heller case, pending before the SCOTUS. In this rather nice read you will see the history of gun-control laws from ante-bellum times, through the Jim Crow era, and into the "industrial" era (well into the 20th Century). You will note the comments of one gun-controller upon the passage of the 1968 gun-control act in which he says that the measure was designed to control access of gun by blacks, but that supporters of the act were "ashamed" to admit it. You may also note that much of the "modern" argument for gun-control rests upon the "precedents" of Southern state law. Further, there is ample record showing how Southern state militias were called out to enforce not only a particular state's laws, but to punish on-the-spot those "breaking" Jim-Crow gun laws. This was particularly evident during the Atlanta riots in the early part of the 20th Century. Of note: Florida's Jim Crow gun laws were upheld as late as the 1940s.