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Ku Klux Klan and gun control (view source)
Revision as of 17:28, January 22, 2023
, 17:28, January 22, 2023start
Contrary to [[liberal denial]], the first incarnation of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] was a pro–[[gun control]] organization. During the [[Reconstruction]] era, a biracial effort by [[Republican Party|Republicans]] to secure the constitutional rights of newly freed Southern blacks were met with repression from the [[Democratic Party]], whose members organized the First Ku Klux Klan during December 1865 in [[Tennessee]]. The Klan was known during the time for attempting to prevent blacks and white Republicans in [[the South]] from access to firearms, which stifled their white supremacist terrorism.
According to ''Harper's Weekly'' in a letter released in 1866:<ref>Kopel, David B. (February 5, 2005). [https://reason.com/2005/02/15/the-klans-favorite-law/ The Klan's Favorite Law]. ''Reason''. Retrieved January 22, 2023.</ref>
{{cquote|The militia of this county have seized every gun found in the hands of so-called freedmen in this section of the county. They claim that the Statute Laws of Mississippi do not recognize the Negro as having any right to carry arms.|||''Harper's Weekly'', January 13, 1866}}
Republican civil rights activist and attorney Albion W. Tourgée wrote that, within regions of the South under the control of the Klan, "almost universally the first thing done was to disarm the negroes and leave them defenseless."<ref>Kopel, David B. (2012). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Truth_About_Gun_Control/YdrYAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 The Truth about Gun Control], p. 12. ''Google Books''. Retrieved January 22, 2023.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Democratic Party]]
[[Category:Gun Control]]
[[Category:Reconstruction]]
[[Category:White Supremacy]]
[[Category:Oppression]]
According to ''Harper's Weekly'' in a letter released in 1866:<ref>Kopel, David B. (February 5, 2005). [https://reason.com/2005/02/15/the-klans-favorite-law/ The Klan's Favorite Law]. ''Reason''. Retrieved January 22, 2023.</ref>
{{cquote|The militia of this county have seized every gun found in the hands of so-called freedmen in this section of the county. They claim that the Statute Laws of Mississippi do not recognize the Negro as having any right to carry arms.|||''Harper's Weekly'', January 13, 1866}}
Republican civil rights activist and attorney Albion W. Tourgée wrote that, within regions of the South under the control of the Klan, "almost universally the first thing done was to disarm the negroes and leave them defenseless."<ref>Kopel, David B. (2012). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Truth_About_Gun_Control/YdrYAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 The Truth about Gun Control], p. 12. ''Google Books''. Retrieved January 22, 2023.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Democratic Party]]
[[Category:Gun Control]]
[[Category:Reconstruction]]
[[Category:White Supremacy]]
[[Category:Oppression]]