Some years ago I read a book — wish I could remember the title — about the extent of Jim Crow legislation and its effect on daily life, mainly in the South, and about the legal and extra legal violence needed to enforce those laws. The authors spent the better part of a whole chapter dealing with the issue of firearms ownership. For a time, as I recall, catalogue sales of rifles (in particular) to African-Americans in the South was a big deal, and there was quite a movement beginning in the 1890s through about 1920 to encourage Black gun … Continue reading RE: Support Gun Control?