BLACK LEADERS: 'DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN GUN CONTROL AND BLACK PEOPLE CONTROL'

Gun control dates back to laws before and after the Civil War that prohibited or restricted African Americans from owning firearms, a group of black leaders said Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

“History is [rife] with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control,” Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick Douglass Society, said at the event.