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[–] chiliedogg 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A reminder that California's famously strict gun laws started as a Republican reaction to black people owning guns and forming citizen militias to protect their neighborhoods from criminals and oppressive government thugs.

[–] Gammelfisch 4 points 1 week ago

Indeed, Ronnie Racist Fucking Reagan and a senator who panicked when the armed Black Panthers(?) walked into the State Capitol building during a protest. Before that, California was open carry, locked and loaded.