Posted on 12/12/2015 4:31:44 PM PST by lowbridge
On Sunday, The Daily Beast's Christopher Dickey, a veteran of Newsweek and the Washington Post, furiously tried to connect the Second Amendment to the protection of slavery before the Civil War. Dickey touted how Charles Dickens and "several British visitors to American shores...discerned...[that] people who owned slaves...wanted to carry guns to keep the blacks intimidated and docile." He also wildly claimed that "the Second Amendment...was essentially written to protect the interests of Southerners" to crush slave revolts: "To keep slaves in slavery, you needed militias and they needed to be armed. Such is the fundamental 'right' assured by the Second Amendment."
The Paris-based news editor led his article, "The U.S. 'Right' to Own Guns Came With the 'Right' to Own Slaves" (which carried the sub-headline, "The grim history of gun violence in the United States goes way back, aided and abetted by the same monstrous reasoning that once defended slavery") by channeling Fareed Zakaria's point about people overseas being "alarmed" by guns in the U.S.: "For most of the last two centuries, Europeans have been puzzling over their American cousins' totemic obsession with guns and their passion for concealed weapons." He continued by citing Charles Dickens's commentary about his visit to the former colonies:
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Is this clown on drugs? He obviously has no clue about American history.
Oh he knows the history. He's banking on other people being ignorant. Remember Johnathan Gruber
It has to do with European taking of weapons from its citizens.
Red herring.
Many blacks are slavery to the fear of black terrorist gangs in Chicago. What does he want to do THERE?
It seems the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are concerned with tyrannical government. The dude is whacked.
A scant decade after England ends slavery, Dickens spews forth like a reformed drunk on the evils of American slavery. Duh. But it seems the Tenth Amendment would be the one he has a quarrel with.
Well, when your country is built on the ideas of private property, the right to defend that property, the general right to hunt for food, and the right to own the tools to accomplish those ends, you especially revere the ownership of those tools. They come to represent as well as protect the Liberty hard won in the past and maintained by their very presence.
For Americans, those iconic tools are guns, used to hunt, used in warfare, and used to defend our homes, self, and families if need be. Their mere presence is a reminder of that legacy, of that responsibility, and that Liberty.
That’s not the saddest part. Millions will read this and repeat it as truth because they don’t have a clue about American history either. Say hello to the fruits of our Liberal educational fiasco.
And Unabashedly So!
So how does he explain people like John Brown wanting to use guns to start a slave revolt to end it?
And how does this retard explain how the north won the war? With Twitter hashtags???
Balderdash! The second amendment was to protect coal interests from global warming activists. And you know, it was Bush’s fault.
No. That is what the welfare state is for. No need for militias.
Before WWI, Britain had no gun controls at all except one very minor one.
In Dickens’ time any Englishman could buy any gun he wanted.
He’s just another cheap race pimp. They are a dime a dozen these days. Morons who are afraid they may have to get a REAL job.
Yup.
Christopher Dickey is a dickey head liberal idiot.
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