Because they wanted the Klan to be able to terrorize them, murder them, threaten them with violence, and if they had a firearm to defend themselves, that would be harder to do. And Justice Thomas has written extensively about [the] long racist history of wanting to disarm African Americans. to make them vulnerable to violence. And that played an important part in this Supreme Court decision this week. Senator, there's one red flag here I want to raise. (21:05–21:19)
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Asserts that Justice Thomas has documented a racist history of disarming African Americans.
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