Subject: Anti-gun lawsuits: racist, classist!
Now the Feds are joining the mayors in the attack against gun makers.
What’s this bias against the projects?
They’re saying that poor people need special coddling.
And since this is inner city violence we’re talking about, the govt
and cities are in the final analysis saying that POOR BLACK PEOPLE
CAN’T HANDLE GUNS and shouldn’t own them. Trying to reduce
guns in certain AREAS and frigging INCOME groups is blatant
racism and classism!
The problem is that the good majority of poor people are the ones
who truly have no voice.
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The very first anti-gun laws were directed
against poor black people. First there were Jim Crow registration
laws which prevented blacks from owning guns, if I recall right.
Then came ‘The Saturday Night Special’ laws. –There were common
derogatory terms used in this description, which were taken out of the
title to make a ‘decent’-sounding ‘generic’ law name, but really
it was racist in purpose.
SNS’s were cheap guns that poor downtown blacks who needed them
could afford. These were taken from them by racist legislators,
leaving them defenseless or forcing them into shopping from the
black market. Even today it’s hardest to get concealed
permits for the people who need them the most: poor people
just trying to get ahead in crime-filled urban areas, getting
attacked by thugs who are often armed, and who if they aren’t
are stronger anyway.
But, no, they have the Caretakers watching over them.
Keeping sharp implements away from them because they
can’t be trusted to take care of themselves.
Just think of all the trouble over the years that the Caretakers have
caused the decent hardworking poorfolk of this land: penalizing
them for staying married, helping loser neighbors get ahead at
their expense, letting the crooks of the hood out of jail early or on
technicalities, cops being too busy to protect them as they play
all day at social work for the losers.
And as for another early gun control law, the 1968 ban on mail ordering guns in
response to the killing of JFK, had no effect other than to put a great American company
out of business (Herters). There were no significant problems resulting from mail order guns
before this. It was a totally invented problem. But it created a huge one in response: it greatly
boosted the role of gun trafficking in organized crime.
