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 …
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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That still bleeds into todays systems where black men who carry legally are still treated with more suspicion and face unduly aggression from "law enforcement".
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No one is denying the ideal around militias and a "tyrannical" central government. Which it is. But you are outwardly denying its racialized features and how it has contributed to black bodies dying and being subjected into todays time.
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