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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2. Also, the claim that the militia was a non-factor in the Revolution is nonsense. Yes, militia was unable to act as a substitute for the Continental Army. But it was an essential force multiplier, without which the war would not have been won. http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2013/02/politicslaw_the_4.php …
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3. You can tell that Professor Bogus op-ed is up to no good when it kicks off "The story begins in June of 1788." Also, this is misleading - compare to Sec 12 of Mason's draft (Sec 13 as adopted) http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/VADeclaration.pdf … & https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/virginia-declaration-of-rights …pic.twitter.com/bPEtbBgfRw
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4. Mason's 1776 Declaration is, in fact, a crucial precedent for the phrase "a well-regulated militia," which it defined as "composed of the body of the people, trained to arms".
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Replying to @baseballcrank
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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Replying to @baseballcrank
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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Replying to @iTweetyNerd @baseballcrank
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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So, you're falling back on rhetoric rather than defend the factually false claim "that 2nd Amendment was in fact created to ensure Southern slaveowners the right to maintain & arm slave patrols to put down insurrections amongst the enslaved" You're not fooling anyone.
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Replying to @iTweetyNerd @baseballcrank
It is dishonest to deny a central feature of a law and only analyze how it was affecting white populations throughout our history. Just saying. It says a lot.
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