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How do you stop a lynch mob? With a Winchester repeating rifle. That was the advice of Ida B. Wells, the great journalist who led the fight against lynching. To frustrate her work, a new form of gun control was introduced.
The Racist Influence on Gun Control Laws
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3rd October 1925: A gang of white men gather around J D Ivy, a black man they have blindfolded and tied to a stake in a forest in Georgia, USA. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
By David Kopel
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