THE RACIST ROOTS OF GUN CONTROL in Georgia.

Very interesting data on the 1906 Atlanta race riots, where mobs attacked black neighborhoods, the residents fought back (in an early form of straw man sales, light skinned residents bought guns for their neighbors), and police and the state militia responded with house to house searches for guns. The Atlanta Journal ran an editorial entitled “Disarm the Negroes,” endorsing the searches with comments such as “Should a collision between the races occur, it would be too late to deplore the fact that the negroes had been permitted to arm themselves.” The study also probes why GA law bans carrying at public assemblies, and notes the law was enacted after night riders attacked blacks who were travelling to a … public assembly, and they fought back.

This kind of thing isn’t news to those who have been paying attention, but it’s probably news to everyone else.