• Not_mikey@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago
    1. The individual right was decided by a 5-4 court decision along party lines 2 centuries after the fact. It’s not as clear cut as freedom of speech

    2. Poor people and people of color are disproportionately victims of gun violence. You may come back with “good guy with a gun” but in most altercations more guns equals more deaths.

    3. While Reagan’s gun law in California was racist, it wasn’t what killed the Panthers, FBI assassinations did. Even if black people had all the guns in Texas they still wouldn’t be able to challenge the state.

    • JustZ@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Even free speech as we know it today was a product of modern Supreme Court decisions from the Warren Court.

      Until then we still enforced anti sedition laws!