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The Second Amendment: Are we having the wrong debate about the right to bear arms?
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Mark A. Taff
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But Carol Anderson’s new book, “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,” changed everything for me. This week on the podcast, Anderson and I talked about the real history of the Second Amendment and I realized we’ve been having the wrong debate.
The question isn’t what the Second Amendment protects, it’s who. From the very beginning, the Second Amendment was about protecting white Americans from Black people. The formation of local militias was to prevent slave uprisings, not government tyranny.
This discussion won’t offer any easy answers about what should be done about guns now. But it will at least give us a better sense of how we got to this point. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(6/12/2021)
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Sucker.
Read THE FEDERALIST PAPERS and THE ANTIFEDERALIST PAPERS. The Founders left plenty of information behind explaining the Founding Documents.
Carol Anderson's twaddle will teach you nothing but lies. |
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| Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? — Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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