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Experts Debate Second Amendment’s Effects on Equality, Inequality in the United States
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Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies at Emory University. Her latest book is “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.”
Anderson says when she looks at the Second Amendment, she focuses on how the fear of an uprising of enslaved people drove the creation of the amendment. “You had in the Virginia constitutional ratification amendment, Patrick Henry and George Mason arguing that the control of a militia that James Madison had put into the Constitution would leave slaveholders defenseless because you could not trust the federal government to organize the militia and send the militia down if there was a massive slave revolt,” she says. |
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MarkHamTownsend
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What a bunch of stier-scheisse.
The second amendment was ratified because the British attempted to disarm the Colonists (among other assaults on liberty) and the Founders wanted to protect Americans' right to keep and bear arms so they could resist a tyrannical government.
No one is justifying slavery, it was a vile, horrible institution, but trying to argue it was used to justify the second amendment is unbelievably deceitful and completely unnecessary. |
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| The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. — Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States before the Adoption of the Constitution [Boston, 1833]. |
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