I'm gonna say it and I don't care what gun nuts think...

[Nanjing03]

190. Jim Crow = Gun Control

Agreed. The post-Civil War Reconstruction period saw hundreds of thousands of African-American Union Army veterans returning to the South. Seasoned African-American combat veterans who knew how to shoot and "with guns in their hands" was the last scenerio that Southern whites wanted. It took about a decade, but ultimately the Southern Democrat power brokers who owned the big mills, had the big money, and dominated the state houses and state courts managed to get their "Jim Crow" laws on the books. One of those laws was to keep "colored folks" segregated and unarmed. The latter seems to be the case even today, except the old Democrats are now the "progresive" Democrats when it comes to the 2nd Amendment. The Brady Campaign, Bloomberg's MAIG, and the Joyce Foundation's oddly named Violence Policy Center tried to create an "industry" of gun control, but it deflated fast in the wake of successful concealed carry reforms that parelleled the same period of fewer and declining violent crimes and fewer and declining gun accidents -- that according to the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice /Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the FBI Uniform Crime Report. Gun control is almost dead and dying fast. Don't expect a return to it.