Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)Thom Hartman, who got it from a law professor Carl T. Bogus who wrote a book called Hidden History. All the slave owning states had to do was deputize the slave patrols as police. Also, most of the Southern states had stricter gun laws than the rest of the US. The ironic thing is that the first states to pass gun control laws against concealed carry were slave states in the 1830s. Georgia banned some handguns and knives in 1837 until the State Supreme Court struck it down.
Bogus basically got most of it from a book written 1949 by Herbert Aptheker. It was largely viewed as being greatly exaggerated back then.
Problem is, it wasn't based on any legal nor historical documents. That is the real reason it is "hidden history". Basically, it is bullshit.
He also relied on Michael A. Bellesiles screed , Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Bellesilles won the Bancroft Prize before scholars checked out the citations. He lost the prize (and was fired from his tenured job) when the book was exposed as an academic fraud.
All of the search results are blogs that go back to the same source. Basically, copy and paste without checking anything for themselves. While it was a hit with progressive bloggers, and gun control activists, but historians ignore it.
more reading:
http://www.constitution.org/lrev/roots/death_collective_right_theory.pdf
Since it was not created to uphold slavery, and there