Assault Weapons Ban supporter wins presidency, crushing NRA-backed right-winger!!!

[Glaug-Eldare]

142. Now THAT's a load.

I'll use Maryland as my example, because it's quite convenient. From 1634 to 2012, virtually every single gun control law passed by our legislature has been targeted DIRECTLY at blacks. Before the 14th, carry and ownership were off limits to all blacks, slave AND free. After the 14th, the law was rewritten to restrict carry on the subjective basis of "apprehended fear," which, as in other Southern states, was never meant to be applied against whites. The carry permit law was passed immediately after racial violence DC and Baltimore, when the legislature wanted a more concrete standard for preventing blacks from carrying. Then the '88 handgun roster was rolled out, a direct analogue to the Klan-backed "Army and Navy Model" laws restricting ownership of handguns to expensive models already owned in huge numbers by relatively wealthy whites. Just this year(!), Attorney General Doug Gansler testified before a U.S. District Court that it is dangerous to allow people in the state's two majority-black jurisdictions to obtain carry permits without that subjective "good and substantial reason," which notably includes campaign donations from wealthy businessmen. Gun control is dripping with race fear.