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Re:List of school shootings in the United States by SauciestGNU on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:03PM (#31509802)
>The Army and Navy Law prohibited the sale of "belt or pocket pistols, or revolvers, or any other kind of pistols, except army or navy pistols", which were prohibitively expensive for black freedmen and poor whites to purchase.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special

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Re:List of school shootings in the United States by spoils19 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:48PM (#31511826)
If it's prohibitively expensive for everyone, how is the black community targeted unfairly?
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Re:List of school shootings in the United States by 1915cb1f on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:26PM (#31512204)
The black community was targeted in the same way that poll taxes were used to prevent freed slaves were voting.

Are you seriously questioning whether or not Reconstruction-era white southerners had it out for black people?

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