Maj Toure: Why Every American Should Care About the 2nd Amendment
The guest argues that gun control laws originated as racist tools to disarm Black Americans and have since evolved into systemic barriers targeting marginalized groups, while also creating dangerous gun-free zones that esummaryGun control history: Gun control laws predate the Constitution and were explicitly designed in state constitutions (e.g., Tennessee) to prevent Black and Indigenous people from owning firearms, a practice that evolved intakeaway“Gun control is older than the Constitution.”quote
