Gun Control Reform Activism

But this inequality, like the 2 Senators per state concept, was intended to benefit the slave states. Given that the slave states had huge numbers of non-qualified black males, there had to be a way to balance the North/South tension. So the 3/5ths compromise allowed for greater representation in the House and the 2 Senators per state allowed for greater influence in the Senate. And given how the Electoral College is constituted, this guaranteed that the slave states would have more influence.

Plus, on the subject of firearms, the first police force was constituted in S. Carolina as a slave patrol, and gun ownership was mandated for free whites. So we have the confluence of gun ownership, a police force/slave patrol, and more Southern power in government.