This is Where Gun Control Comes From

At least it is here in the U.S.

Expanding on Clayton Cramer's seminal paper The Racist Roots of Gun Control, Michael Menkus of GeorgiaCarry.org has authored a paper on the state of Georgia's gun control history, entitled DISARM THE NEGROES: The Racist Roots of Gun Control (a PDF file.) Illustrated with images of period newspapers, deeply researched and footnoted, it's worth your time.

Some time back I was trading comments with a European on someone else's site. He was aghast at the "lax laws" here, and protested that "guns are extremely dangerous!" or words to that effect. I believe my response was "Yes they are. That's why we shouldn't entrust them only to criminals and governments. But I repeat myself."

In Europe gun control developed out of a fear of anarchists and communists, and it didn't begin until about the turn of the 20^th Century. Here, however, gun control grew out of a fear of the people our nation oppressed - people who quite often outnumbered their oppressors, and the legacy of that oppression has twisted and distorted our legal system for over 140 years.

The Supreme Court now has an opportunity to untwist a bit of that. I hope they take it.

But I don't think they will.