Gun control is just another tool for suppressing disfavored minority groups. Black leaders during the civil rights movement knew that they needed to be armed; MLK Jr. was denied a permit for a pistol–he applied for one despite advocating for non-violent action–but his bodyguards were always armed. The Black Panthers knew that being armed was the only way to make cops follow the law, and that scared white people so much that Reagan passed the Mulford Act in California. The very first gun control laws in the colonies were laws banning black people from owning firearms.
As an aside, the best shooter I’ve personally been in a match with is non-binary. I’ve had several ROs that are trans. I’ve met a number of LGBTQ+ people at matches. So far, locally I’m still not seeing many non-white people, but that’s slooooooooooowly starting to change, and I am there for it.
![Malcolm X w/ M1 Carbine [1964]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d78cfac3-0fe6-4333-b8d1-0011f1e889a5.jpeg){kind=link}
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Gun control is just another tool for suppressing disfavored minority groups. Black leaders during the civil rights movement knew that they needed to be armed; MLK Jr. was denied a permit for a pistol–he applied for one despite advocating for non-violent action–but his bodyguards were always armed. The Black Panthers knew that being armed was the only way to make cops follow the law, and that scared white people so much that Reagan passed the Mulford Act in California. The very first gun control laws in the colonies were laws banning black people from owning firearms.
An armed minority is harder to oppress.
Harder *to oppress.
FIFY.
Yeah, I knew that grammar felt clunky. Fixed.
Good deal. :)
As an aside, the best shooter I’ve personally been in a match with is non-binary. I’ve had several ROs that are trans. I’ve met a number of LGBTQ+ people at matches. So far, locally I’m still not seeing many non-white people, but that’s slooooooooooowly starting to change, and I am there for it.
One of the things I love about my current range is the diversity. I got tired of only shooting with middle-aged conservative white dudes.