zerocapitalism:

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t California’s gun laws stem from the Black Panther Party trying to protect their neighborhoods by arming themselves? 

So the California and The US Government, spun a narrative of how, guns are bad in the hands of these dangerous folks in the city, it’s not just hunting! It’s a danger to the community! Which resulted in The Mulford Act of 1967, no longer allowing the public to carry loaded arms in California.

Being that it was the Black Panther Party being targeted the NRA and Reagan supported California’s endeavors in restrictive gun laws.

Like I’m pretty sure most of the laws yall support california for … came out of them being Just The Worst Racists.

This should tell you something about why gun control in the united states will never actually stop the people you want them to stop.

Yall constantly point to things like armed white supremacists being pleasantly greeted in political spaces, and then ask why peaceful black protestors are arrested…

And then, the thing that boggles my mind is, you will still think our gun laws will ever impact anyone other than the marginalized of our society.

US gun laws have always been about keeping down those already down, in this case, keeping down black communities protecting themselves from racist white cops.

If the law sounds progressive … and congress will likely pass it? Maybe think a little more critically about it and realize why they’re considering it.