1. Ahistorical nonsense. The Second Amendment derived from the English Bill of Rights of 1689, which explicitly placed a right to bear arms among the traditional rights of Englishmen. The right was recognized in antislavery northern state constitutions. https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/second-amendment-slavery-nyt-piece-misleading-claims/ … https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1267604715434639360 …
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5. Of course, it was Ida B. Wells herself who wrote, "a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
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Yup. It’s ahistorical to think that ‘well regulated’ could only possibly mean regulated by the state
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You do all of this to avoid how the truth around guns were used to keep slaves brutalized and never willing to organize a slave rebellion. She is speaking to the psyche that creates a law that allows rampant gun use like this. This is just bad faith intellegencia and tacit racism
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You're literally defending historical falsehood here by claiming it should not be taken literally. Of course, slave societies were designed to deny slaves the same fundamental rights as citizens - but the problem with that is not that citizens had fundamental rights.
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Welp, after we saw well armed police forces unable to contain riots without national guard assistance, the 2A debate is dead for at least a few years.
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