On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 08:39:49 -0700, Oren wrote:
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:55:02 -0700 (PDT), DD_BobK
wrote:

One of the first major gun control efforts (at least in my life time)
1968 Gun Control was totally motivated by fear & racism.

Politicians fear an armed populace..... exactly the intent of the
guys who started this whole thing.

"...Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep
guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of
slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed
the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with
little resistance.

(Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the
Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to
the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not
every Democrat is an ACLU'er, but every ACLU'er is a Democrat. Same
with the Klan.)

In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores
was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks -- even freemen --
could not own guns.

Chief Justice Roger Taney's infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford
circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they
were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: "t would give
them the full liberty," he said, "to keep and carry arms wherever they
went."

_NEGROES WITH GUNS_

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html

"Saturday Night Specials" were banned specifically to make it too expensive to
ghetto blacks to defend themselves.