president of the National Women Suffrage Association, argued that, “You have put the ballot in the hands of your black men, thus making them political superiors of white women. Never before in the history of the world have men made former slaves the political masters of their former mistresses!” When the 15th Amendment passed, white suffragists began pushing harder for voting rights for white women, to the exclusion of black, Native American, and Asian women. Whether he knew it or not, Rep. Collins was tapping into a long political tradition when he “married” gun control legislation with racism and xenophobia. At several moments in American political history, gun control provisions like the one Rep. Collins added to HR 8 have been used to maintain white supremacy. Fifteen-year-old Mel Harris was reported missing by his family around 3:30 p.m., on Saturday, August 5, near a bike path in Westchester. Despite both K9 units and helicopters being deployed to aid in searching for the lost teen, it would be the clientele of the the Mean Fiddler bar in Midtown Manhattan, a pub 16 miles from where Mel had last been spotted, who would alert authorities of the teen shuffling his way amid the crowd. Authorities arrived at around 11:30 p.m., about eight hours after Mel had gone missing. The teen was unharmed, and he reunited with his family later that night at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. Get the full story at theNew York PostRelated: And though none of the rumors have been confirmed yet by the family, fans are still hard at workplaying Internet Detectiveto try and keep up withwhat’s going on