This is the federal law that prohibits mailing handguns through the post office. The Congress before it was passed debated the bill and Senator Shields (D-TN) did a Bloomberg explanation:
Fifty-three negroes killed by negroes. Only seven negroes killed [by\ whites. Only two whites killed by negroes--one a white burglar and the other assassinated by negro bandits....
Here we have laid bare the principal cause for the high murder rate in Memphis--the carrying by colored people of a concealed deadly weapon, most often a pistol. Can we not cope with this situation?
All of this is on p. 3946, but I have included the whole discussion for context. A reader points out that the word by was left out of the original.
There seems to be an error in the transcript: "Only seven negroes killed whites..." should be "Only seven negroes killed by whites..."
ReplyDeleteOtherwise it contradicts the next sentence: "Only two whites killed by negroes..." and also the data in the table.
This error is in the original transcript, but ought to be corrected to avoid confusion.