In light of a deeply-disturbing ruling from the U.S. 5th Circuit court today, a reminder that even before the United States Supreme Court decided D.C. v. Heller in 2008, inventing an individual "right" to own guns separate from any considerations of militias, and long before they decided the Bruen case last year apparently made it impossible to apply any considerations that have surfaced since 1788, the second amendment itself is rooted in this country's original sin of enslavement.
The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
https://truthout.org/articles/the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery/
Today we sacrifice our children's lives at the altar of the NRA, and it's all a bitter fruit of sacrificing the lives of those whom we consider "Black" during enslavement.
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@Pat It takes a bigger brain than mine to understand that, despite Dr King and Malcom X being murdered with guns, guns were somehow essential to civil rights. Perhaps it's true, in the sense that King's murder with a gun led to LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1968, in part to stem the protests that erupted afterward.
Guns have been used against civil rights protestors over and over and over again, and used by civil rights protestors almost never. This practical history of what has actually happened seems more helpful than your counterfactual assertion that guns are equal to freedom. That is plainly not true.
In a country awash with guns, my daughter doesn't have the freedom to use a locker at school, and I don't have the freedom of feeling certain that she won't be shot at school. In this ridiculous hellscape of a country awash with guns, we've had 55 mass shootings in the 33 days of 2023.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
The history is clear, the results of the experiment are in: guns are killing us, and it needs to stop.
Who gets to keep their guns and who doesn't? And who decides?
Imagine a landscape where only the wealthy and politically connected get to carry guns. How safe would you feel in that society?
I've lived in areas where few people had guns and there were tight gun-control laws; and I've lived in places where nearly everyone had guns with few gun restrictions. I felt much safer in the latter and those places had the least crime and violence.
I would not feel safe in a world where only the wealthy and politically connected had guns.
@pwinn
If the slaves had guns, they wouldn't have been enslaved, would they?
During the 1960s, when the Black Panther Party started to carry guns, the establishment went berserk because they knew that they were willing to fight for their freedom. The racist establishment only wanted white people to have guns. If black people didn't have guns in the 1960s, willing to fight for their freedom, I don't think the civil rights movement would have seen the progress it had at that time. MLK's message of non-violence was backed up by the willingness of the Black Panther Party to fight for their rights if necessary.
right to self-defense = freedom
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