26 March, 2021

I don't even like guns and I defend the right to have them.

Just finding some quotes and making notes about them to investigate later:

“Enter into all negro houses and search for arms.  Any may lawfully seize and take away all such arms unless the owner had a license, which had to be issued weekly."
 - Florida law, 1825 Acts of Fla. 52, 55

“It shall not be lawful for any free person of colour in this state to own, use, or carry fire arms of any description whatever.”
 - Georgia law, 1833 Ga. Laws 226

“Unlawful for any Negro, mulatto, or person of color to own, use, or keep in possession or under control any bowieknife, dirk, sword, firearms or ammunition of any kind, unless by license of the county judge.”
 - Florida law, pre-war but can't find year

That if any free negro, mulatto, or free person of color, shall wear or carry about his or her person, or keep in his or her house, any shot gun, musket, rifle, pistol, sword, dagger, or bowie-knife without a license, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."
 - North Carolina, 1844, filed to the Supreme Court who overruled it.

“No freedman, free negro or mulatto, not licensed to do so by the board of police of his or her county, shall keep or carry firearms of any kind.”
 -  Mississippi, 1865, Laws of Mississippi 165

“Wherever the negro population preponderates, there [Democrats] hold their sway, for a few determined men can carry terror among ignorant negros without arms.”
 - Senator John Sherman, R-Ohio, 1871,  Cong. Globe, 42nd Cong., 1st Sess. 154

“If a police officer of the city of Richmond or New York should find a drunken negro or white man upon the streets with a loaded pistol . . . and by virtue of any ordinance, law, or usage, either of the city or State, he takes it away, the officer may be sued, because the right to bear arms is secured by the Constitution. . . .” 
 - Representative Washington C. Whitthorn, Democrat-Tennessee, 1871, Cong. Globe, 42nd Cong., 1st Sess. 337

“No person in said State of Georgia be permitted or allowed to carry about his or her person any dirk, bowie knife, pistol or revolver, or any kind of deadly weapon, to any court of justice, or any election ground or precinct, or any place of public worship, or any other public gathering in this State."
 - Georgia Law, 1870, Ga. Laws, Vol. 3, p. 42.  It was leading up to the election where blacks weren't allowed to vote and is still Georgia law.

"Can not we, the dominant race, upon whom depends the enforcement of the law, so enforce the law that we will prevent the colored people from preying upon each other?  Here we have laid bare the principal cause for the high murder rate in Memphis––the carrying by colored people of aconcealed deadly weapon, most often a pistol.  It is unspeakable that there is public sentiment among the whites that negroes should not be disturbed in their carrying of concealed weapons."
 - Senator John K. Shields, D-Tennessee, May 11, 1924, 65 Cong. Rec. 3945, 3946

“A good negro is contaminated by the possession of a weapon in a time like this; a bad negro is made very much worse the moment he places a pistol in his pocket.”
 -  Atlanta Journal, September 25, 1906

Obviously these laws don't apply to the "dominant race."  There are a few other quotes about taxes for buying guns, which of course blacks couldn't afford to pay so they had no way to legally get guns.  That sure sounds like what Democrats are doing today.  Their bodyguards sure won't give up guns.
Last Republican mayors:  Atlanta 1879, Detroit 1957, Chicago 1927, St. Louis 1949, Philadelphia 1952, Baltimore and Oakland 1960s, Newark 1953, Camden 1936, San Francisco 1964, Minneapolis 1973, Portland 1980, Seattle 1969, Compton 1963, Memphis one Republican since 1967, Washington DC 1910, Houston 1933, Milwaukee 1908.

"The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms.”
 - James Burgh, Political Disquisitions, 1774

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