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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
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Up to 1975, The NRA had not opposed gun regulations and had not made a fetish of the Second Amendment. It had been founded following the Civil War by a group of former Union Army officers in the North to sponsor marksmanship training and competitions, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes in Loaded, her new deep dive into the origins of the Second Amendment. In 1934, during the Depression, the NRA testified in favor of the first federal gun legislation that sought to keep machine guns way from outlaws, such as the famous Bonnie and Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd, and Chicago gangsters. During testimony, a Congressman asked the NRA witness if the proposed law would violate the Constitution, the witness said he knew of none. |
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| Hmnph. A revisionist's work is never done, it seems... |
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| The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order. Adolf Hitler, April 11, 1942. (Source: "Hitler's Table-Talk at the Fuehrer's Headquarters 1941-1942", Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaeum Verlag, Bonn, 1951).) |
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