I wonder if @BamaFan1137 and @EvilWayz can bring themselves to admit that the GOP is playing the race card here...
No historical evidence and no support from black people or black organizations...
The GOP probably ndidn't consult with a single black person before they undertook this effort
I guess the GOP is just doing it out of the kindness of their heart... ❤️
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nc-lawmakers-call-gun-permit-103000643.html
NC lawmakers call gun-permit law racist. Here’s what the record shows.
Dan Kane
March 10, 2023·10 min read
Some state Republican lawmakers and gun rights advocates are pushing for an end to North Carolina’s 104-year-old law requiring permits for handguns by claiming it was racist.
In news releases and public remarks they have repeatedly called it a “Jim Crow era” law, referring to the post Reconstruction period when North Carolina and other states passed discriminatory laws against Black people.
The House and Senate quickly passed repeal legislation this session but have yet to agree on a final version.
But evidence that the gun-permit law was written to deny guns to Black people is scant, with two publications often cited as proof acknowledging that the law’s language doesn’t mention race. News reports from when the bills passed cited a need to combat gun violence in the state.
On Wednesday, Duke University’s Center for Firearms Law challenged the racist-origin claim head on.
“Broad statements that North Carolina’s permit law was purely racist or solely intended to disarm Black citizens don’t hold up to close historical scrutiny and often do a disservice to the quality of debate and discussion surrounding modern legislative proposals like the current push to repeal the law,” reads a post written by Andrew Willinger, the center’s executive director.
Willinger and others say that some county officials who enforced the pistol-permit law after it was passed could well have used it to discriminate against Black North Carolinians. During the Jim Crow era, racist state laws and everyday practices routinely did so.
That’s not a sound reason to toss out a law intended to keep guns out of the hands of people who are a threat to others and themselves, say opponents to the House and Senate bills that would repeal the permit law.
Linking efforts to reduce gun control to advancing racial justice rings disingenuous in this case, some state NAACP leaders have said. That’s especially true because gun violence disproportionately harms Black North Carolinians, said Corine Mack, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County NAACP branch.
“We need to stop with the performative politics, OK? Stop with the performative activism and be really honest about what’s happening in this country,” Mack said. “Children are dying.”
No historical evidence and no support from black people or black organizations...
The GOP probably ndidn't consult with a single black person before they undertook this effort
I guess the GOP is just doing it out of the kindness of their heart... ❤️
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nc-lawmakers-call-gun-permit-103000643.html
NC lawmakers call gun-permit law racist. Here’s what the record shows.
Dan Kane
March 10, 2023·10 min read
Some state Republican lawmakers and gun rights advocates are pushing for an end to North Carolina’s 104-year-old law requiring permits for handguns by claiming it was racist.
In news releases and public remarks they have repeatedly called it a “Jim Crow era” law, referring to the post Reconstruction period when North Carolina and other states passed discriminatory laws against Black people.
The House and Senate quickly passed repeal legislation this session but have yet to agree on a final version.
But evidence that the gun-permit law was written to deny guns to Black people is scant, with two publications often cited as proof acknowledging that the law’s language doesn’t mention race. News reports from when the bills passed cited a need to combat gun violence in the state.
On Wednesday, Duke University’s Center for Firearms Law challenged the racist-origin claim head on.
“Broad statements that North Carolina’s permit law was purely racist or solely intended to disarm Black citizens don’t hold up to close historical scrutiny and often do a disservice to the quality of debate and discussion surrounding modern legislative proposals like the current push to repeal the law,” reads a post written by Andrew Willinger, the center’s executive director.
Willinger and others say that some county officials who enforced the pistol-permit law after it was passed could well have used it to discriminate against Black North Carolinians. During the Jim Crow era, racist state laws and everyday practices routinely did so.
That’s not a sound reason to toss out a law intended to keep guns out of the hands of people who are a threat to others and themselves, say opponents to the House and Senate bills that would repeal the permit law.
Linking efforts to reduce gun control to advancing racial justice rings disingenuous in this case, some state NAACP leaders have said. That’s especially true because gun violence disproportionately harms Black North Carolinians, said Corine Mack, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County NAACP branch.
“We need to stop with the performative politics, OK? Stop with the performative activism and be really honest about what’s happening in this country,” Mack said. “Children are dying.”
