The Racist Roots of Georgia’s Gun Laws
If you think gun control has historically been something to protect citizens, think again. This article by Georgia Carry explains how gun control in Georgia started as an effort to disarm blacks.
From the founding days of Georgia, whites had a great fear of armed blacks rebelling against white power and privilege. In 1739, eighty slaves from Stono, South Carolina rebelled and killed twenty-five whites before they were defeated in a pitched battle by a better armed white militia. In August 1831, Nat Turner and seventy slaves and freedmen traveled from house to house through Southampton County, Virginia axing and beating to death all of the whites that they could find.
including women and children. 57 white men, women and children were murdered
