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Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery?
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In “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,” the historian Carol Anderson argues that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides for a “well regulated militia” and “the right of the people to keep and bear arms,” offers “a particularly maddening set of double standards where race is concerned.” On the one hand, she claims that slaveholding founding fathers insisted on the inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights in order to assure themselves of a fighting force willing to suppress slave insurrections. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(5/28/2021)
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Critical Race Theory BULLSHIT.
Read what The Founders wrote in THE FEDERALIST PAPERS or some of their contemporary writings.
This IS NOT ignorance on the the part of Carol Anderson. This is a deliberate attempt to rewrite our country's history, traditikn, and the Constitution & Bill of Rights.
It's what Marxists do. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(5/28/2021)
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A useless article about a useless book.
The Overton Window re blacks lawfully exercising their 2A rights is moving - TOWARD INCLUSION.
As it should be, and it is long overdue. But I would point out that it's changing because peaceable blacks are finally waking up and joining the ranks of the legally-armed.
Nobody I know objects to peaceable people, no matter what their race, religion or ethnicity, going armed in this country.
Ideology, however, is a different story. Those who would strip the people of their heritage of American First Principles based upon political ideology should be shunned, ostracized and eliminated from the American democratic process. Attacking and undermining the Declaration and Bill of Rights is treason. |
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| "Some people think that the Second Amendment is an outdated relic of an earlier time. Doubtless some also think that constitutional protections of other rights are outdated relics of earlier times. We The People own those rights regardless, unless and until We The People repeal them. For those who believe it to be outdated, the Second Amendment provides a good test of whether their allegiance is really to the Constitution of the United States, or only to their preferences in public policies and audiences. The Constitution is law, not vague aspirations, and we are obligated to protect, defend, and apply it. If the Second Amendment were truly an outdated relic, the Constitution provides a method for repeal. The Constitution does not furnish the federal courts with an eraser." --9th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, dissenting opinion in which the court refused to rehear the case while citing deeply flawed anti-Second Amendment nonsense (Nordyke v. King; opinion filed April 5, 2004) |
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