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Gun Control and Racism: The Laws and Taxes Meant to Limit Minority Gun Ownership in America
Ammo.com ^ | 11/3/2020 | Sam Jacobs

Posted on 11/03/2020 9:41:25 AM PST by ammodotcom

Every schoolchild knows that the Declaration of Independence declares that the basic equality of man is “self-evident.” The United States Constitution enumerates what the inalienable rights only alluded to by the Declaration. An inalienable right is one that exists regardless of whether or not it is recognized by the state. For example, you have a right to free speech regardless of whether or not the Constitution recognizes it. Thus any restrictions on free speech are curbs of this pre-existing right, not an actual elimination of that right. One of them is the right to keep and bear arms. Another is the right to a speedy and public trial.

However, particularly with the Second Amendment, there’s long been a struggle between the ideals of America and the reality on the ground with regard to race. What’s more, minorities in the United States are disproportionately the victims of violent crime. Both of these things together make it crucial to understand self defense and the Second Amendment from the perspective of race in America.

Part of the problem is that, unlike European nations which grew organically, America is an invention of a handful of Englishmen. They founded the nation on a set of ideas and there has always been a tension between those ideas and the reality. This is, in some sense, unavoidable: reality will always have trouble living up to an ideal. A failure to live up to that ideal in the past according to terms established today doesn’t make the entire project – or any specific part of it – worthless or suspect.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; blogpimp; civilrights; guncontrol; racism

1 posted on 11/03/2020 9:41:25 AM PST by ammodotcom
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To: ammodotcom

That first, unless extreme hyperbole, is totally not true.


2 posted on 11/03/2020 9:48:45 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: ammodotcom

Doesn’t look like blm inc has any problem obtaining guns. And that OK cause we out number DEM 75 to 12%. As for Hispanics they seem to want to WORK! And if you want to WORK who do you vote for????


3 posted on 11/03/2020 9:55:39 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Harpotoo

In the Hispanics’ case the answer to that question is Democrat nearly 70 percent of the time. (cnn.com/election/2018/exit-polls)


4 posted on 11/04/2020 7:41:18 AM PST by ammodotcom
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