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Why did gun control start?

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Because of gun crime. The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed after the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. It banned the sale of firearms to people who had been convicted, diagnosed with mental illness or dismissed from the army.

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It wasn't. Gun control in the United States actually dates back much further, and has a bit of a darker history than gun control advocates would lead you to believe. One of the major institutions of gun control was rooted in the Black Codes of Reconstruction era America, and one of the very few things Michael Moore actually got right on the subject was that the first gun control law was to prohibit blacks from being able to own a gun.

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