NRA SILENT AS AMIR LOCKE SLAIN BY POLICE FOR HAVING A GUN HE LEGALLY OWNED
THE FIRST GUN control organization in the United States was formed after the Civil War by white Southerners bothered by the fact that enslaved people were now free, entitled to vote, and arming themselves to defend that freedom. The group called itself the Ku Klux Klan and organized for the first time in 1866. They were often made up of local leaders like sheriffs and judges, and would use the force of law to disarm Black communities before rampaging through them. A demonstrator holds sign reading “Justice for Amir Locke” during a protest of his killing by police, outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis “Before these midnight marauders made attacks upon peaceful citizens, there were very many instances in the South where the sheriff of the county had preceded them and taken away the arms of their victims,” said Rep. Benjamin Butler in 1871, pushing for passage of laws aimed at taking down the Klan. “This was especially noticeable in Union County, where all the...